Support a Nobel Peace Prize for Pete Seeger!

[Tesha]

http://nobelprize4pete.org

Pete Seeger is an ambassador for Peace and Social Justice and has been over
the course of his 88-year lifetime. Using his prowess as a musician he worked
to engage other people, from all walks of life and across generations, in causes
to build a better and more civilized world: His work shows up wherever you
look in the history of labor solidarity, growth of mass effort to end the Vietnam
war, ban of nuclear weapons, work for international diplomacy, support of the
Civil Rights Movement, for cleaning up the Hudson River and for environmental
responsibility in general. Pete knit the world together with songs from China,
the Soviet Union, Israel, Cuba, South Africa and Republican Spain. We learned
that Crispus Attucks, born a slave, was the first man to die at the opening of
the Revolutionary War, that the Farmer-Labor party in the mid-west had a
socialist philosophy that lasted well into the 20th century, we learned that
anti-slavery movements were often inspired by songs that indicated a map
of escape, such as "Follow the Drinkin' Gourd," he popularized many of the
IWW songs that helped in CIO organizing, and spread the Civil Rights
Movement through promoting the SNCC Freedom Singers and making songs
such as "We Shall Overcome," known all over the world.

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[dixiegrrrrl]

1. broken link in your post

[Tesha]

3. Fixed -- thanks!

[RoccoR5955]

2. I can tell that people are using the same appeal that they did last year.

To start, the link is broken,
Second Pete is 89, not 88.
His birthday is 3 May 1919.
His latest record is "Pete Seeger at 89," and is available here: http://cdbaby.com/cd/peteseegerat89

You know Pete doesn't want this prize. He is way too humble, and would probably ask the committee to give it to someone "more deserving." Believe me, I know the man for over 20 years!

[daninthemoon]

4. saw him at the greek theatre. lifetime memory

[Tesha]

5. Kick for the morning crowd...