NOENEMIES

The album NOENEMIES was born out of the death of Dr. Vincent Harding. On the NOENEMIES web page, they wrote about it here:

In the midst of our grief for our beloved mentor, one thing was very clear: The time for reflection was over. The time had come to provide an answer. That answer was NOENEMIES.

The main points are: Raise your voice with us (Get out there and voice your opinion), Call and response (organize community events), Public transformation (Make change), These songs are all around us (Use music to bring people together), and We are not alone (Collective singing and organizing is effective and positive). It is a two-part album; the first is a normal Flobots album, with original music; the second is a collection of old spirituals and music for collective singing and inspiration. The album inspires to bring people together, and even though you may have opposing views, you can still be friends. Jonny 5 said in an interview with TYT Politics:

Social movements should want to get bigger, social movements should want to win, right? We should believe that we should win, and to win, we have to be inviting. And to be inviting, you need to say, like, ‘You may be my opponent right now, but you’re not my enemy.’