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Pete Seeger, Environmentalist and Political Activist, Turns 89 This Week
Spotlight: "This instrument surrounds hate and forces it to surrender," reads the inscription on Pete Seeger's banjo. Seeger, who turns 89 this week, has been using his music to bring equality, reason and peace to the world for some 70 years. An ardent environmentalist and political activist, he has received awards over the past dozen years for some of the same things that got him blacklisted in the '50s. He lives with his wife in a house they built many years ago, in the Hudson Valley Region of New York. Concerned about the growing pollution of the Hudson River, he formed Hudson River Sloop Clearwater in 1966; the sloop Clearwater regularly sails down the Hudson, as it hosts education programs about water pollution and teaches ways to clean the river. I'm thinking that with the fall of our american economy, can come an opportunity. As time begins to slow, we can let the focus change from "how fast can we get to the next big thing", to how can we preserve what we have here, now.
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Contributor's Note
It's interesting to note, that one person's ideal is originally "blacklisted" by other people and looked upon as disruptive and 'antisocial'. Only to have those same ideals come full circle and embraced by fellow human beings.
It just goes to show you that the majorities opinion, even though it is looked upon as 'the norm' is not necessarily the right choice.
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Pete Seeger's Bio
Pete Seeger turns 89 - Saturday May 3rd 2008
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