Another week, hopefully full of positive change. Time to crank up your speakers, and enjoy yourself with our new Friday “music that inspires us” feature. We are going to start off with Peter Gabriel, because he was a founder of The Elders, and was recently named as one of TIME’s “100 Most Influential People In the World.” And, appropriately enough, we are going to go with Gabriel and Kate Bush singing “Don’t Give Up.”

And now, our awesome intern Kate (principal author of our Morning News Roundup) will take us out with a “kind of abstract” selection from a band called Sigur Ros. It’s called Glosoli, and you won’t understand a word even if you happen to speak Icelandic because, according to Kate, the song is sung in a language made up by Sigur Ros called “Hopelandic” (we should all be speaking Hopelandic, shouldn’t we?). Kate urges you to watch the whole thing:”The ending is one of the most amazing scenes I’ve seen in a music video.” And she’s right.

Send us your favorites, and we’ll feature them, too. Have a good weekend.

The Elders is a group of 12 world leaders–ranging from Jimmy Carter to Nelson Mandela– who seek to serve as wise global elders to the unruly global village. And among the many good works they are doing, they have launched a campaign which has the modest goal of getting, umm, ONE BILLION people to sign the Universal Declaration Of Human Rights. In the internet age you can always aim big, but that is one sixth of the global population, so it will be interesting to see how this pans out. You can read the Declaration here. And sign it here. They have a ways to go, though. Just 17,276 people have signed so far. Wait a minute. Click. Click. Sign. Make that 17,277.

“I wonder if, in the future, there will be a way to get lots and lots of people to sign this.”

(Image from Franklin D Roosevelt Library)