I hadn’t had the time to watch the Democracy Now Columbus Day special with Buffy Sainte-Marie until now. She has always been an inspiration to me, and in this interview with Amy Goodman, she talks about aspects of her life I hadn’t heard of before: her FBI record, her computer learning project for children, her childhood… She talks about Leonard Peletier as “just the kind of cousin who comes over on the weekend to help you with your car”, who was obviously framed and deserves to get out of prison and spend time with friends and family. She talks about her artistic process. I suspect you will really want to make time to see this program, too:
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/10/12/democracy_now_special_an_hour_of
MySpace seems not to want to let me embed the video here, so I hope the above link works.