This machine surrounds hate and forces it to surrender

This machine surrounds hate and forces it to surrender

NY Times

“My job,” he said in 2009, “is to show folks there’s a lot of good music in this world, and if used right it may help to save the planet.”

To Hear your banjo play, from Archive.org

"Normally, I'm against big things. I think the world's going to be solved by millions of small things."

http://qz.com/171422/pete-seeger-dies-income-inequality-record-high/

Pete Seeger (1919-2014), troubadour et militant

I am not going to answer any questions as to my association, my philosophical or religious beliefs or my political beliefs, or how I voted in any election, or any of these private affairs. I think these are very improper questions for any American to be asked, especially under such compulsion as this.

House Un-American Activities Committee, August 18, 1955

MR. SCHERER: Let me understand. You are not relying on the Fifth Amendment, are you?

MR. SEEGER: No, sir, although I do not want to in any way discredit or depreciate or depredate the witnesses that have used the Fifth Amendment, and I simply feel it is improper for this committee to ask such questions.

Mr. Seeger strummed a banjo on the bow of the Clearwater sloop. He and a group of volunteers raised $150,000 to build the vessel and used it to dramatize the fight against pollution in the Hudson River Valley. Associated Press

Deliver the Goods « Pete Seeger Appreciation Page

Deliver the Goods

It’s gonna take everybody to win this war,

The butcher and the baker and the clerk in the store,

The guys who sail the ships and the guys who run the trains,

And the farmer raising wheat upon the Kansas plains.

CHORUS (AFTER EACH VERSE):

The butcher, the baker, the tinker and the tailor,

We’ll all work behind the soldier and sailor,

We’re working in the cities, we’re working in the woods,

We’ll all work together to deliver the goods.

I got a new job and I’m working overtime,

Turning out tanks on the assembly line,

Got to crank up the factories like the president said,

Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.

I bet this tank will look mighty fine,

Punching holes in Mr. Hitler’s line,

And if Adolf wakes up after the raid,

He’ll find every piece of shrapnel says “Union made.”

From New York City to ‘Frisco Bay,

We’re speeding up production every day,

And every time a wheel goes ‘round,

It carries Mr. Hitler to the burying ground.

Now me and my boss we never did agree,

If a thing helped him, then it didn’t help me,

But when a burglar tries to bust into your house,

You stop fighting with the landlord and throw him out.

Words & music by Pete Seeger (1942)

© 1993 by Stormking Music Inc.

ClearWater The Clearwater Story |Hudson River Sloop Clearwater

Clearwater was founded by Pete Seeger, legendary musician, singer, songwriter, folklorist, activist, environmentalist, and peace advocate, and one of the most influential people of the twentieth century. In 1966, in despair over the pollution of his beloved Hudson River, Seeger announced plans to “build a boat to save the river.” At the time, the Hudson was rank with raw sewage, toxic chemicals and oil pollution; fish had disappeared over many miles of its length. Seeger, along with many other concerned individuals, believed a majestic replica of the sloops that sailed the Hudson in the 18th and 19th centuries would bring people to the river where they could experience its beauty and be moved to preserve it.

Boat

boat

Photo credit Annie Leibovitz

Et pour finir, la chouette chronique de Philippe Meyer mercredi matin 29/01

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