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Posted by Eleanor Walden Pete Seeger is an ambassador for Peace and Social Justice and has been over the course of his 87year lifetime. Using his skills as a musician his songs he worked to engage other people, particularly the youth, in causes to end the Vietnam war, ban nuclear weapons, work for international solidarity, Civil Rights, and environmental responsibility Pete's most popular songs -- “We Shall Overcome,” “Where Have All the Flowers Gone,” and “The Big Muddy,”-- all anti-war anthems, have served as beacons for an entire generation. Pete knit the world together with songs from China, the Soviet Union, Israel, Cuba, South Africa and republican Spain. We learned history partly from his songs from the, revolutionary war, the Farmer-Labor party, anti-slavery movements, IWW, and CIO organizing, to the Civil Rights Movement. In the words of the Eastern European writer Milan Kundera: “ the struggle for people’s power is the struggle for memory and against forgetting”. Pete’s unique sense of purpose, decency, and ability, and the support of, his wife Toshi, and his family gave him the opportunity to be all that he could be. It is the desire of the committee and the signers of the petition that we not be engaged in “forgetting". To read about and sign the petition go to: Link: Pete Seeger for Nobel Peace Prize
on 4/12/2007, 2:31 pm
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Petition to nominate Pete Seeger for the Nobel Peace Prize www.petitionthem.com
Pete lived under the guidance of his mentors: Paul Robeson who said, “The artist must elect to stand for freedom or for slavery, I have made my choice, I had no alternative,” and Berthold Brecht who said, “Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to forge it..” It is time that cultural work receives the recognition that the arts have great influence and global reach, that it is not only a medium of entertainment but of education, compassion and action.
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