Pete Seeger Remembers His Late Wife Toshi, Sings Civil Rights Anthem "We Shall Overcome"
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- www.democracyno... - We continue our conversation with the legendary Pete Seeger here in our New York studio. Born in 1919, the 94-year-old Seeger is an American icon. In the 1940s, he performed in the Weavers, along with Woody Guthrie. In the 1950s, he opposed Senator Joseph McCarthy's witch hunt and was almost jailed for refusing to answer questions before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Seeger helped popularize the civil rights anthem, "We Shall Overcome." In the 1960s, he was a vocal critic of the Vietnam War and inspired a generation of protest singers. He was later at the center of the environmental and anti-nuclear movements. A month ago today on July 9, his wife, the artist and filmmaker Toshi Seeger, died at the age of 91. She was a key leader and artistic programmer for the Great Hudson River Revival, the annual fundraiser for the Clearwater organization that helped to clean up the Hudson River in New York. She died less than two weeks short of what would have been the Seegers' 70th wedding anniversary.
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Pete Seeger was such a gem in this world, humanity always needs people like this.
Here on his 100th birthday. Enjoy your party Mr. Seeger.
I love this guy and his music and activists.
Toshi was a great person who responded to little people like me who wrote to Pete.
She cared about how his music touched others.
Two lives led with such beautiful purpose.
Love him.
I'm old now and have tears in my eyes after watching this. Things around the world generally seem to be in a mess and though I know there are still many like him in this age I just can't think of any. I worry for the world I will leave sometime in the not so different future. I hope there are many Pete Seeger's, Nelson Mandela's, and Muhammed Ali's still standing in the wings.
Pete Seeger is great!
What great humility, and wisdom. I believe that back when people lived in smaller communities and knew their neighbors, most people were like this. How far we've come.
RIP
You can tell Amy Goodman is a big fan of Pete's. Just look at her smiling while she's talking to him.
- humor is uniquely human thing ,all mammals have some level of intelligence and feelings but humor is specifically human thing , i would say soul lives in humor
Sure miss Pete!!
Missing you Pete!
Love this. Who can't love Amy Goodman? Do ya'll have HD vids of these old broadcasts?
why does this only have 200 likes, thats criminal
Oh for heaven's sake, "pathetic" is an ADJECTIVE, not a NOUN. It's about one's attitude and how one acts and speaks, not what you are. It's odd that someone who attacks an elderly person would be concerned with respect. You don't know who I am at all so I'm not concerned with what you think of my "image." I know Pete personally and professionally and he's a kind, gentle, loving person who doesn't deserve your venom. I really don't care to continue this; it's ridiculous.
What did you learn in school today?
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