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1. Jim Hightower on Pete Seeger

Wed Jan 29, 2014, 07:02 PM

Jan 2014

January 28, 2014

"It never occurred to me that Pete Seeger could die, for I thought of him as a permanent piece of America -- like the Bill of Rights.
I first met Pete at the Newport Folk Festival in 1969 and it was my good luck to learn from him over the years in a few of the many grassroots causes he endorsed.
He genuinely was 'of, by, and for the People,' and his exemplary life gives us all a rich up-tempo, belt-em-out songbook of how common people can team up to battle the bosses, bankers, big shots, bastards, and bull-shitters."
http://www.jimhightower.com/node/8243/

Yesterday, Democracy Now devoted the entire show to Pete
"We Shall Overcome": Remembering Folk Icon, Activist Pete Seeger In His Own Words & Songs"
http://www.democracynow.org/2014/1/28/we_shall_overcome_remembering_folk_icon/

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Pete Seeger at Occupy Wall Street in NYC: [View all] sabrina 1 Jan 2014 OP

Jim Hightower on Pete Seeger red dog 1 Jan 2014 #1

Thank you for those links. I love Jim Hightower also, another national treasure. sabrina 1 Jan 2014 #2

Thanks for posting the OP red dog 1 Jan 2014 #5

He was very brave from all I've read about him. Lol, and while everyone knows and will remember Pete sabrina 1 Jan 2014 #6

Read a story where a journo drove to Pete's, and passed a protester in the rain BelgianMadCow Jan 2014 #3

Great Pete Seeger story! red dog 1 Jan 2014 #4

He was in his eighties then. What a great man, really. sabrina 1 Jan 2014 #7