so so i think this stereotype of me that follows me around there i think i follow her around actually usually she shows up first in the paper and then i show up in the flesh and people are like  so but but i think the thing is good evening and welcome very much to conversation and pleased to welcome to the program this evening out a singing poetic phenomenon here in this country a native franco and  we're here to atlanta new york city walk and very very much the conversations it's i've just had the pleasure of listening to you and andy entertain the people here at the wetlands in new york city and we want to do a sort of introduction here now and we're obviously going to let the music and the singing and the poetry and the messages that you convey be the prime you know force of the program because it's tremendous what you do but we would like to just introduce you a little bit here maybe you could just let us funnily enough if it depends a lot on the way i am portrayed in the media before i show up you know out of the way people write about me the terms that affect who comes out to hear me play you know so so if you know somebody in the media picks up on you know young militant feminists hangry you know then you know you'll see a crowd of young feminist women college age but if somebody just says you know whatever radical singing you know musical poet poetry you know depending on what they stress but you know i really enjoy singing and speaking to people of different ages and sexes in races and you know i mean the universe there are universal themes you're talking you're talking about universal justice in a way i may say so that is so little heard i mean you talk about as somebody you saw as talk about the universal justice and the numbers of people in the inappropriate attitude of most people toward the old pressed peoples of the world of which there are so many and so seemingly accepted by so many of the general society you get a sense and give a good sense of anger about how the mass of the society seems to go along with the injustices that seem to people is what really frustrates me and i think you know we sort of we learned to make compromises and sacrifices along the way and i think people accept that much too much i think that people you know they sort of they start out with the idea of the way they think the world should be and then they look around and they find out how the world really is and they sort of hedge and heads and heads until they've accepted much too much i think and you know i think that i speak for my experience as a woman you know very much so it informs what i write and it's definitely there but i think that as people we have so much more in common than we have differences and  awaken i don't know if this is related but it it can be in a certain sense seen that way that there are these kind of there are these kind of conditions and there isn't enough and it's just that it seems to be known chomsky says the media seems to manufacture consent among the people and we live in a almost like a post industrial feudalism some merging in terms of the mass of the society and it just seems to be accepted and you did did you think to do you sense i saw allen ginsberg on the other day he said he thinks there's a new spirit there's a new something that's beginning to manifest itself particularly among the young i refer to you know you're obviously from a younger generation but he had take how you took great hardy said the fifty's and sixty's in the seventy's and eighty's sort of went quiet scent or or something he said he thinks is the spirit is really serious and is really emerging you sense that and you sense of can you feel it alone in the one that you and in the way your sense a a a positive kind of awakening among the young perhaps and then they in turn can perhaps bring the broader society along to the need to recognize the need for change yeah i mean i think that there's always you know there's there always seems to be a new you know life force and a new you know impetus for change going on with every you know generation and you know not like we can divide the generation so clearly you know and you know but there is i think right now they're characterizing my generation as generation x you know the sort it or not i don't buy into the you know a lot of really active really you know yeah you know i think in active you know young people who are as inspiring to me as people who have been doing political work i think that you know that energy is important you know and it's new and it's but it ended also but he's a voice that needs a voice it goes for a long time and i don't know i don't like to be presumptuous or anything like that but i think among the many sources and places we might look for that  voice that would begin to awaken the spirit in the younger and then the larger audience it's up to franco if i may say so i think you're a major voice in poetic talent really congratulate you on the words you know we're going to want to let people see that  poems are the songs and the yeah the music is tremendously powerful as well as the lyric or poetry that you put to the music is both and we're obviously going to run this for the audience and so with this coming up but  like i sort of see that as a as a political a form of political work just to tell my story you know i wrote that there's a lot of people out there who feel that their story and rightly so feel that their stories are not being told on v or you know in the history books or you know feel that they are just not their voices aren't included so i think for anybody who feels that to stand up on a stage or you know publish a book or in some way just relate their experience that people are aware of it right so that people can include it in their you know in their in their countries yeah right and then hopefully it will be there to influence thinking when it's time to make a law you know you know just to sort of chinese get it in so you know i think the story absolutely i get inserted into this into the context of the way things are going we need it and this is not coming from the political leadership is not coming from the corporate leadership is not coming from the always the majority of people are outside the sacred circle of you know corporations and government and if you can see a distinction there at all and i think that there is a lot more noise coming from the outside more and more i mean i think that i find that there's a lot more awareness and this you know discourse about about issues you know today than there were even five years talking here and everything i could talk to you for twenty five hours isn't easy and then maybe on another account but as of now now we can do it easy on another occasion we will we want to let people see the music and hear it right so why don't we do that now we've got her here and we're at the wetlands right again memorable ecologically oriented change oriented place here in the middle of new york city belly of the beast is the only place that was but now so we're going to bring you some of the need to fry and this is what is it is february you know what i m introduce you to the audience because you're seeing you in what is primarily the part of this program which is the music mean the middle of them and they stare at me wherever i go i don't think they like my haircut i don't think they like my clothes i can't wait to get back to new york city where least when i walk down the street you know never hesitates to tell