Gladis Sibrian was a nun who fled El Salvador during its bloody civil war. At the time of her interview with Smith, she works as a director and speaks on behalf of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, USA, a leftist Salvadoran political party and one of the main participants in the country’s civil war. In her monologue, Sibrian speaks about the Los Angeles riots, revolution, and the impossibility of social change when people don’t believe they have power.