Warrior for Alternative Conflict Resolution!

Buffy Ste-Marie has a new album. In her 70s or 80s now, and still cool as f***.

CP: I read that you don't like being called a "warrior," though it seems to happen often.

Sainte-Marie: Warrior is one of the words that is quite specific and should be reserved for our veterans and soldiers, who have been or are willing to go kill somebody and get killed — go kill somebody usually because somebody else tells them to. I'm not going to somebody's damn war. I don't want to get killed or be killed for that kind of reason.

When somebody says, "Oh Buffy, you're such a warrior for peace," I stop them and say, "No, I'm not really a warrior for peace." Instead, what I promote is alternative conflict resolution. The word warrior was not thrown around like that in the '60s. It's kind of crept up on us as we've forgotten how horrible the Vietnam War was. For me, both sides are obscene on war. War is just an obsolete, old-fashioned, suicidal thing that human beings have done from time to time. It's a low vibe. We're better than that. [Canadian Press]

Great political songs.


Great love songs.