She has given support to the Civil Rights Movement, the anti-war movement, the anti-apartheid movement, anti-police brutality movement, pro-labor union rights movement, the Puerto Rican independence movement, the Palestinian liberation, the Cuban revolution, the Venezuelan Bolivarian revolution. The topics of her songs include civil rights, the end of white supremacy, affordable housing, food security, union rights, peace, and Palestine and Latin American self-determination, among other causes. Within her songs, she has spoken against US police brutality, Palestinian and Colombian population displacement, and the Cuban blockade.