Neil Young urges musicians to write songs using words of detained migrant children

[orangecrush]

Singer-songwriter Neil Young is encouraging musicians to write songs based on the accounts of migrant children who have been put in U.S. custody.

A post on Young's website this week asked artists to "embrace their stories with humility, openness, and respect, and find a way within the music community ... to share their words with the universe in the hope that the truth will ensure that these practices end, so that these children will suffer no more."

"Please answer this call to amplify their voices and elevate the truth," it added.

Young called on musicians to spread awareness about the accounts of migrant children as part of Project Amplify, a campaign from the nonprofit group Lawyer Moms of America. The initiative quoted unnamed migrant children describing detention conditions in excerpts of sworn declarations.



"We believe that music is universal and the best manner in which these accounts can be shared and heard throughout the world," the post on Young's website read. "We also believe that the songs will keep the accounts and atrocities being perpetrated against these children in the minds of the public and will be a call to action."


https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/458674-neil-young-urges-musicians-to-write-songs-using-words-of?amp

[virgogal]

1. How about the words of the many children

in this country who are homeless and/or go to bed hungry?

[yardwork]

4. Have they been forcibly separated from their parents and put in cages?

[virgogal]

9. Nope,but they still matter.

[gristy]

2. Hell, yes!

We love you, Neil!

[samplegirl]

3. I truly can't believe

that more musicians have not wrote songs about the worst president ever!

[Hekate]

5. I have been hoping songwriters would wake up to this

Thank you Neil Young

[DesertRat]

6. Thank you, Neil Young!

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We happen to be listening to Harvest Moon tonight. Love him!

[orangecrush]

7. Great record

From an artist with a big heart.

[Duppers]

8. One of my favorite song.

❤ Neil and all his humanitarian causes. He's a really good guy.