Democracy Now! Special: An Hour of Music and Conversation With Legendary Native-American Singer-Songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie

It is no accident that the peoples singers were suppressed and killed during the sixties and on-ward. There is another album from a Cherokee warrior that was taken off the shelves because it became the top album in the shortest time ever. That is Johnny Cash's album called " Apache Tears ". It is a well kept state secret of the bosses that the workers songs were made "illegal" many moons ago since the inception of the industrial revolution. How many stations make a habit of playing the trade union anthem "Solidarity Forever". Yet the songs of the workers are growing in popularity and wisdom everywhere as the depression deliberately made by the Monopoly Capitalist ruling class elites enters its second year. We need to hear the songs and read the written works of the American Peoples resistence and the worlds peoples resistence to the deliberate illegal polluting wars and enforced depressions of the decaying Imperialist system. The time is to make a break through, and bring in to being the alternative systems of culture and songs of liberation. Thanks be for such truthful talented artists as Buffy Sainte Marie, and Amy Goodman for making a difference.

Buffy and other American singer Pete Seeger are two of the most successful singers that remain popular and relevant throughout American society, and though the U.S. monopoly captialists have tried to suppress their messages, they have not been able to. The other class of culture they have violently and viciously suppressed is the working class singers and songwriters, but even there the workers songs are becomming wiser and broader in meaning ie "Solidarity Forever". Cultural organic revolutions have been trying to reach the people since time immemorial. The alternative media though large, is becomming subverted by the agents of the U.S. Imperialists who do not want the music and media to co-ordinate the new societies politics or culture. The movement is sitting at a crossroads, and I am thankful that veterans such as Buffy Sainte-Marie and Amy Goodman are around and successful.