A Nobel Prize for Pete Seeger

[barondave]

From enegim

Pete Seeger was a family friend, and while he didn't pal around with the kids so much as visit my parents, we saw him a fair amount. To this day, I've seen more Pete Seeger concerts than anyone else. By a lot. He gave me a ride to one of his concerts in the back of his VW, next to his banjo.

Pete's crusade was the Hudson River. He was raising money for, and eventually sailed up and down the river stopping to give concerts from, the sloop Clearwater. They served Stone Soup and did outdoor music with Up With People! (a very strange political melding, I realized later).

It worked. The Hudson River Sloop Restoration Project garnered enough publicity and good will that lawmakers woke up and today you can swim in the river and eat the fish.

For 70 years, Seeger has been on a crusade of peace and understanding. It's about time he got a Nobel Prize.

Sign the petition!

Comments

[skylarker.livejournal.com]

I tried to sign the petition but they required some kind of password/code.

[barondave.livejournal.com]

Look at the letters in the graphic underneath the box asking for the code. It's so bots can't take over.

[calimac.livejournal.com]

Pete Seeger wrote an anti-draft song (http://calimac.livejournal.com/135851.html) during WW2. Now that took conviction.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes; I saw those, filled them in, and am talking about yet another form field.

[skylarker.livejournal.com]

Oh; that's me. And, cool that you knew Pete Seeger.

[mmagidow.livejournal.com]

Wow! Pete Seeger, the reason I immediately loved folk music. I just wrote a review of a tribute album to him on eMusic a couple days ago. He so deserves to be King (or at least get a Nobel!)