In an article in The Nation titled "Operation Enduring Protest" (about the October 13th anti-war rally in NYC organized by the War Is Not the Answer Coalition) by Liza Featherstone, the author states:

"(P)erformers and speakers were hardly limited to the usual left suspects. The Rev. Al Sharpton eloquently drove home the point that war is "not patriotism," a refrain now echoed by peace activists nationwide. Punk-rock icon Patti Smith--who cut a sexy, stringy-haired spectacle, wearing a blue wool cap, a white t-shirt and non-ironic crucifix--gruffly urged the assembled to "wrestle the world from fools!" Smith saved the gathering from turning into a 1960s flashback (other performers had perpetrated folk songs, including the dead-tired "I Ain't Gonna Study War No More"")."

Well folk folk--what say ye to that?

There are many of our folk elders who are making it onstage at events around the country right now, and I can tell you that the reactions to them and their "dead-tired" music aren't nearly as mild among radical youth as the author above is.

So what do people here think their role as veteran folk musicians and political activists is in the post-S11 New World Order?