sorry hit the submit button insteaad of correcting my spelling of Today there's no 'organization' that has brought together the leadership of the groups trying to make a difference. The scope of what's gone sour in this country IMHO dwarfs the 60's so much it's an aaalmost impossible job. We don't know what we're eating & if it's healthy or not unless you grow it or you raise it. Globle warming is a greater threat than most want to know about, mass extinction gets not even a single note, the ongoing killing of the land, sea & skies is looked at as the the price we have to pay for profitt. The Secrets of our shadow government, it's tight grip on the media, it's use of fear to erode our rights, the violations of human & civil rights, it's arrogant disregard for the UN, other governments, the invasion of nations under the pretext of fear & protection & the seemingly conquest for world domination seems to make singing & writing protest songs a task that's has no starting or ending point, a daunting but not impossible job. Until we can join hands together in protest (divide & conquer) & John Q Public starts to question authority instead of swallowing the spoonfed shit he's been eating for yrs now, until we find our leadership instead of our followship we will have no effective voice in music or in protest even if the singer is singing the sound will be muffled before it gets heard. Quite cynical, yes. Are we as bad off as it's looks, worst? Are we gonna try to change things for the better, maybe? Are we waiting for the country to right it's own wrongs, probably? Will we be satisfied with using only our vote as our only means of making change, I hope not? When the songs & the protesters voices get to be heard in strength above the battle maybe then we can co-exist with the world we live in. Since the 60's we've somehow managed to lose all that we had gained & more. We've lost the wars against crime, drugs, health care, education, poverty, homelessness, discrimination of all kinds, unemployment & we've lost our collective voices.

Barry