Pete Seeger at Occupy Wall Street in NYC:

[sabrina 1]

I remember that day when Pete Seeger came to support the Occupiers in NY. It was wonderful to see him there, still protesting at age 92! He was an inspiration to everyone.

Remembering Pete Seeger, From Woody Guthrie to Occupy Wall Street

Seeger, Guthrie join Occupy Wall Street rally

NEW YORK -- Folk music legend Pete Seeger and '60s folk singer Arlo Guthrie joined Occupy Wall Street demonstrators in their campaign against corporate greed while residents near the protest park encampment pushed to regain some peace and quiet in their neighborhood.

Seeger joined in the Occupy Wall Street protest Friday night, replacing his banjo with two canes as he marched with throngs of people in New York City's tony Upper West Side past banks and shiny department stores.

The 92-year-old Seeger, accompanied by musician-grandson Tao Rodriguez Seeger, composer David Amram and bluesman Guy Davis, shouted out the verses of protest anthems as the crowd of about 1,000 people sang and chanted.

They marched peacefully over more than 30 blocks from Symphony Space, where the Seegers and other musicians performed, to Columbus Circle. Police watched from the sidelines.

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All the best people showed up at Occupy Wall Street!

RIP to a great American hero!

[red dog 1]

1. Jim Hightower on Pete Seeger

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/

[sabrina 1]

2. Thank you for those links. I love Jim Hightower also, another national treasure.

I know what he means about 'never expecting Pete Seeger to die'. He has always been there, his music will always be there, so it leaves a great sense of loss when someone like him dies.

I love this lol!

his exemplary life gives all of us 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.

[red dog 1]

5. Thanks for posting the OP

Wow!..He sure looks young in that B/W photo..
(It could be from WW2)

I just now heard an old radio interview with Pete,
and he said that during his trial (for contempt of Congress?)..when he refused to testify before the HUAC Committee, he asked the judge if he could play him a song right there in the courtroom, and the judge banged down his gavel & said "Case closed".(Guilty)& ordered him taken away to jail.
(Pete only spent 4 hours in jail that time)

[sabrina 1]

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

Seeger I bet no one remembers who that judge was other than as the moron who lost his cool with an American hero. What a legacy. Same thing today. You watch all those robo cops and they don't realize how they will go down in history when OWS is remembered. They will be viewed the same way we view the cops who beat up the protesters in the Civil Rights movement, the evil ones who tried to deny good people their Civil Rights.

Maybe that's why now they cover their faces, out of shame.

[BelgianMadCow]

3. Read a story where a journo drove to Pete's, and passed a protester in the rain

carrying a sign against the Iraq War. Upon arriving at Pete's house, his wife said "sorry, Pete's not in yet, he's out protesting. Alone in the rain. This was 2003.

I'm not surprised he supported Occupy, but glad to read it. Thanks, Sabrina!

[red dog 1]

4. Great Pete Seeger story!

I'm not surprised he supported Occupy either.

Thanks for posting that story.

[sabrina 1]

7. He was in his eighties then. What a great man, really.

'Alone in the rain'. He definitely never wavered in his fight for justice. That is a great story, BelgianMadCow.