Beds Are Burning

"Beds Are Burning" is a cover song by tck tck tck, released on 1 October 2009.

About the song
The song was originally released in 1987 by the Australian rock band Midnight Oil, who in 2009 updated the lyrics. The reworked song was part of a mass media campaign on the threats of climate change organised by the Geneva-based Global Humanitarian Forum, headed by former UN secretary general Kofi Annan. The song was supported and performed by over 60 musical artists with many appearing in the video including Simon Le Bon, the Scorpions, Amadou and Mariam, Andre, Brazilian Girls, Mark Ronson, Jamie Cullum, Melanie Laurent, Marion Cotillard, Milla Jovovich, Fergie, Lily Allen, Manu Katche, Bob Geldof, Youssou N’Dour, Yannick Noah and many more.

The track was first presented to the public at a launch in Paris on 1 October, with the song and video promoted as a kind of musical petition "to demand climate justice at the UN’s Copenhagen Climate Change Summit in December 2009." The promoters also hoped the song would become the soundtrack of the Climate Justice movement, which is about linking the dangers of global warming and those who will be most affected, namely the world's poor.

This version of ‘Beds Are Burning’ was produced by The:Hours, and was made available on all major music download platforms for free. Every download was to be considered a unique digital petition, with people adding their names to "demand world leaders reach an ambitious, fair and global deal at the UN Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen." Already, more than 1.3 million people have signed up to the campaign.

Links
http://www.timeforclimatejustice.org/downloads/thesong