Pete Seeger: Nobel Peace -Updated-deadline Feb1!

Subject: RE: Pete Seeger: Nobel Peace -Updated-deadline Feb1!
From: open mike
Date: 17 Jan 09 - 03:13 AM

go to www.nobelprize4pete.org for more info...

i notice there is another thread that says
Bruce Springsteen will play for the innaguration
on sunday and he has invited Pete Seeger to join.

Subject: RE: Pete Seeger: Nobel Peace -Updated-deadline Feb1!
From: Amos
Date: 11 Feb 09 - 09:46 AM

School board apologizes to Seeger over 1960 flap

2:00 a.m. February 11, 2009

SAN DIEGO: The San Diego school board voted unanimously last night to apologize to folk singer Pete Seeger for an action the district took nearly 50 years ago.

Seeger had been set to perform at Hoover High School in 1960, but the board at the time asked him to sign a loyalty oath because he had refused to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee. A judge ruled that Seeger didn't have to comply and the concert went on.

The resolution offers an apology to a man who is "one of our dearest national treasures."

Seeger, 89, said in a statement that he appreciated the gesture.

Subject: RE: Pete Seeger: Nobel Peace -Updated-deadline Feb1!
From: John on the Sunset Coast
Date: 11 Feb 09 - 12:10 PM

"There is an old saying:   He who is not a communist in his early twenties has no heart. He who is still a communist in his forties has no brain."

Actually the saying, credited to Winston Churchill is, "Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain."

Pete and Woody both were Communists...Pete acknowleged that on a recent 60 Minutes. That said, I am unaware that he/they ever tried to overthrow the US Government. That said, he should have been blacklisted...not because of his poitical views...but because he (The Weavers) allowed Gordon Jenkins to put full, lush orchestrations into their music. The blacklist forced them to go back to their roots, proving every ill wind blows some good.