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Amy Martin and Rosa Sheryl perform at Montana Human Rights Network event in Missoula
Summary
Musicians Amy Martin and Rosa Sheryl performed at a Montana Human Rights Network event in Missoula; the program mixed original songs, audience sing-alongs and references to civil-rights activism including the School of the Americas protest.
Amy Martin and singer Rosa Sheryl performed at a Missoula event organized by the Montana Human Rights Network; the transcript provided does not include a specific date for the program.
The performance combined original songs, audience sing-alongs and spoken reflections that tied personal themes to broader civil-rights activism. Rosa Sheryl, who asked to be called “Rose,” led several songs and short spoken pieces about self-acceptance and a protest tradition tied to the School of the Americas.
Rosa Sheryl said she wrote one song the day before the event and asked the audience to repeat lines and join in singing. “I’d like to give permission to every girl in junior high to fall in love with her own body, to believe in her own mind,” Sheryl said during a spoken passage included in the transcript. Later she described hiking and writing a song inspired by “a field of balsam root” she saw in spring and introduced another number tied to the School of the Americas protest movement.
Sheryl referenced the annual protest in Georgia and pointed attendees to SOAWatch.org for information on the movement. She said the protest is a response to U.S. support for dictators in Latin America and framed the event as a nonviolent, creative response: “we are going to respond not with violence, but with love and with song and with speaking and with connecting with each other,” she said.
The performer thanked Winona LaDuke and the Indigo Girls for their involvement in similar activism and expressly thanked “Allison and everyone at the Montana Human Rights Network” for organizing the Missoula program. The transcript records audience participation in call-and-response sections and Sheryl encouraging listeners to sing along on the song titled in the performance as “Georgia Late November.”
No formal civic actions, votes, ordinances or policy discussions appear in the transcript excerpt; the material is presented as a cultural performance and commentary linked to activist causes. The transcript ends with closing thanks from the performer.
