VIDEO Links: Pete Seeger TV retrospective

[L. Coyote]

Just got this e-mail:

From: toomuchfun...
Subject: Pete Seeger TV retrospective

I just watched the really well done piece on Pete Seeger on Public Broadcasting's American Masters series. I was very impressed and moved by it. I am sure they will be repeating this piece a number of times and I urge everyone to try and watch it. For those in the Boston area, it will repeat at 9:30 PM, Friday, on Channel 44.
This irrepressible singer is inspiring. Irrepressible is a good word as he suffered years of network and other venue blacklisting as well as being a continual target of the FBI. Through it all, his ideas and the music he sang blossomed into a movement, musically and politically. I was affected by the piece about the Vietnam veteran who came to one of concerts with plans of killing him afterwards. He had a change of heart as he sat through and experienced the concert.
Banned from commercial television for 17 years, he did manage to get a program on to public television, Rainbow Quest. With a budget of $50 for each performer he had on, he put this incredible program on with really historical performances. This one by Buffy Saint Marie makes my hair stand on end.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP3spauYdxs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl08n8_b3Sw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6eAPLy13ZM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFOWCH86u8M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqVZ4K1bAx4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pucWDn6d4sU

[JuniperLea]

1. We caught that last night!

Awesome! What a patriot!! What a talent!

[TooBigaTent]

2. Saw this show last night. It was phenomenal! Pete epitomizes what activism

used to be and rekindled in me (sitting in a recliner) the feelings I used to have about doing the left thing.

What a great example of how to really be a good American.

[gademocrat7]

3. It was awesome

Pete Seeger at age 88 is still standing up for social justice. A remarkable man.

[petersjo02]

4. We watched it, too, last evening.

Now there is a man who has made a difference. What a wonderful program it is. Made us smile.

[TexasObserver]

5. Just checking in for Puff the Magic Dragon, and PP&M.

My sisters and I sang their songs on family driving trips of 4000 miles or more, and looking back, our parents were SAINTS for listening to us sing them over and over and over again!!

Pete has always been right on left issues.

[TooBigaTent]

6. I especially liked the parts where he was singing those innocuous songs WE ALL

sat around the campfire or in a classroom singing. Brainwashing the next generation of American youth - must have driven the cons crazy.

[L. Coyote]

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