Monday
Jan192009
This Moment We Hold Onto: The Day Pete Seeger Brought Us Our Land
Monday, January 19, 2009 at 20:34
Update: There is a campaign to award the Nobel Peace Prize to Pete Seeger. Peter Dreier makes the case for the award to Seeger with an excellent overview of his career and politics.
In case you missed it (and I did yesterday), 89-year-old Pete Seeger --- a hero of music, of civil rights, and of American politics --- joined Bruce Springsteen and tens of thousands on the Washington Mall yesterday to sing Woody Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land" at the Inaugural Concert. And it wasn't Guthrie's more famous but slightly censored version, it was the original with all the spirit of individualism, protest, and celebration.
Whatever happens in the days, months, and years after 20 January 2009, this was a moment not just for "America" but for all of us:
[youtube]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg0wiOHc9tI[/youtube]
In case you missed it (and I did yesterday), 89-year-old Pete Seeger --- a hero of music, of civil rights, and of American politics --- joined Bruce Springsteen and tens of thousands on the Washington Mall yesterday to sing Woody Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land" at the Inaugural Concert. And it wasn't Guthrie's more famous but slightly censored version, it was the original with all the spirit of individualism, protest, and celebration.
Whatever happens in the days, months, and years after 20 January 2009, this was a moment not just for "America" but for all of us:
[youtube]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg0wiOHc9tI[/youtube]