LEONARD PELTIER

Bel pezzo reggae di Little Steven(Steven Van Zandt),cresciuto musicalmente assieme alla E Street Band di Bruce Springsteen ma pure con una buona carriera da solista dove nel 1989 partorisce l'album"Revolution"con all'interno la canzone dedicata a Leonard Peltier,attivista nativo americano arrestato nel 1976 per un presunto duplice omicidio ai danni di due agenti federali.
Questo album vede l'apporto elettronico delle tastiere di Mark Alexander,il basso di Warren McRae,la batteria di Leslie Ming oltre che numerosi coristi.
Da sempre persona impegnata nella denuncia sociale,che va dalle proteste contro l'ex presidente Usa Reagan fino alle lotte contro l'apartheid e alla campagna di liberazione di Peltier,per la cui storia rimando al link di wikipedia per approfondirne la situazione:http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Peltier.

Leonard Peltier sleeps in a prison tonight
For 400 years he's lived with justice washed white
His crime was tradition spoken with pride.

And the evidence that put him there
Was deliberately falsified
And the government spends a lot of money
To keep the red man quiet.

He should say what he wants to say
And it's time we listened
He should pray where he wants to pray
Without asking permission.

Leonard Peltier
Where is the justice for Leonard Peltier?

June '75 Pine Ridge Reservation
Two FBI trespass Lakota Nation
Looking for trouble their army waiting outside.

And trouble they brought some
They were pawns in the big game
For stolen minerals and tourists
They were sacrificed in profit's name.

And what would you do?
As you stare into the face of
The genocide of your people
Put yourself in the place of.

Leonard Peltier
Where is the justice for Leonard Peltier?

Somebody ask the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Somebody ask the Bureau of Indian Affairs
Somebody ask the Bureau of Land Management
Somebody ask the Environmental Protection Agency.

Ask them about Raymond Yellowthunder
Wesley Badheart Bull
Joe Killsright Stuntz
Tina Trudell
Annie May Aquash
Pedro Bissonnette
Delphine Eagledeer
Byron Deserta
Buddy Lamont.

Leonard Peltier
Where is the justice for Leonard Peltier?

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