Yeah, the 80s were full of songs like that, but I did like a lot of them just the same, songs like “Red Skies at Night” by The Fixx.
That period had lots of video (movies, TV episodes, cable programming) about the same topic. You could pool a bunch of those peacenik songs together and make an alternate soundtrack to one of the cheesy films on this subject, such as "Miracle Mile".
“Party at ground Zero” by Fishbone was one of the more obvious ones, but man were they fun to see live.
It stopped being cute when they made their comeback about two years ago with a song supporting Occupy and gay marriage. I like the old stuff. Less Cities, More Moving People was good. Probably anti-something.