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sabrina 1

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2. Thank you for those links. I love Jim Hightower also, another national treasure.

Reply to red dog 1 (Reply #1)

Thu Jan 30, 2014, 02:12 AM

Jan 2014

I know what he means about 'never expecting Pete Seeger to die'. He has always been there, his music will always be there, so it leaves a great sense of loss when someone like him dies.

I love this lol!

his exemplary life gives all of us a rich up-tempo, belt-em-out songbook of how common people can team up to battle the bosses, bankers, big shots, bastards, and bull-shitters.

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Pete Seeger at Occupy Wall Street in NYC: [View all] sabrina 1 Jan 2014 OP

Jim Hightower on Pete Seeger red dog 1 Jan 2014 #1

Thank you for those links. I love Jim Hightower also, another national treasure. sabrina 1 Jan 2014 #2

Thanks for posting the OP red dog 1 Jan 2014 #5

He was very brave from all I've read about him. Lol, and while everyone knows and will remember Pete sabrina 1 Jan 2014 #6

Read a story where a journo drove to Pete's, and passed a protester in the rain BelgianMadCow Jan 2014 #3

Great Pete Seeger story! red dog 1 Jan 2014 #4

He was in his eighties then. What a great man, really. sabrina 1 Jan 2014 #7