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I Don't Want To Leave This Mess Around My Children To Clean Up. I Want To Swing Absolutely As Hard As I Can To Straighten Things Out Before They Get To The Age Where It Starts Hurting Them.

There Are Literally Billions Of People On The Planet Who Live In An Unimaginable Poverty That's Not In Any Way Different From The Plight Of The People In Orchid. And You Can't Have The Splendor Of Rodeo Drive Without The Sweatshops Of Indonesia; Those Two Things Go Hand In Hand.

My Job Is To Steel The Backbone Of People On The Frontlines Of Social Justice Struggles, And To Put Wind In Sails Of Those Struggles. And People Who Are Fighting On A, On A Daily Basis, At A Grass Roots Level.

There's A Lot Of Injustice In The World And It's What I Sing About In My Music And What I Try To Confront In My Life As An Activist.

There's A Unique Component Of Music That Is Different From, The Written Pamphlet Or A Speech. There's Something, When You Get The Right Combination Of Rhythm, Melody And The Right Lyrical Couplet, That Feels Like Truth In The Reptilian Brain. There's Something Hardwired In Our D.n.a.. And When You Get A Large Group Of People Singing Together In Solidarity, It's Something That, In My Experience, And I've Played Countless Demonstrations And Protests Through The Years, It's Something That Can Really Help A Struggle.