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The website asks for visitors to sign a petition to support his nomination. The [[Kendra Alexander Foundation]] is the fiscal supporter, which takes individual donations on behalf of the campaign and sends them to the campaign.<ref>[http://www.nobelprize4pete.org/index.html Nobel Prize for Pete Campaign website]</ref>
 
The website asks for visitors to sign a petition to support his nomination. The [[Kendra Alexander Foundation]] is the fiscal supporter, which takes individual donations on behalf of the campaign and sends them to the campaign.<ref>[http://www.nobelprize4pete.org/index.html Nobel Prize for Pete Campaign website]</ref>
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==National Jobs For All Coalition==
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In 2010, Pete Seeger, was listed as serving on the advisory board of the [[Democratic Socialists of America]] dominated [[National Jobs For All Coalition]].<ref name=who>[http://www.njfac.org/whoweare.html National Jobs For All Coalition: ''Who We Are''] (accessed on Nov. 16, 2010)</ref>
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==External links==
 
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Pete Seeger

Template:TOCnestleft Pete Seeger serves on the Advisory Board of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism[1] and on the Advisory Board of the Rosenberg Fund for Children[2]. He is married to Toshi Seeger.

Communist Activity

Pete Seeger first subscribed to the Communist Party USA paper New Masses in 1932 and formally joined the Party ten years later, under the influence of his secret Party member father.

His father, an ethno-musicologist at Julliard and later at UCLA, wrote a column for the Daily Worker under the byline Carl Sands.[3]

Seeger says he left the Party in 1950, but continued involvement in communist fronts and organs for decades including;

GI Civil Liberties Defense Committee

Circa 1969, Peter Seeger, New York, was listed as a sponsor of the Socialist Workers Party led GI Civil Liberties Defense Committee .[4]

National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression

60th Birthday Celebration of James E. Jackson

The following notice appeared in the "Daily World", December 28, 1974, p. 11, en toto:

Join the 60th birthday celebration of James E. Jackson and welcome the publication of his new book, "Revolutionary Tracings".

Sunday, Dec. 29, 2:00 PM, N.Y. Hilton, 6 Ave. & 53 St

Program

Sponsors

Tickets will be sold at the door at $5.50 each. Youth tickets are $2.50 each.

[NB: There greater majority of these sponsors are either congressionally identified members of the CPUSA or are open members of the CPUSA. Those not identified so far as Party members have long documented records of support for the CPUSA and its fronts and causes. Some of these will be further identified as additional information is located]

Rally for Detente and World Peace

One of the Communist Party USA fronts that Seeger participated in was the National Council of America-Soviet Friendship, cited by several governmental agencies and Congress, including the Subversive Activities Control Board, Docket No. 104-53, Report and Order, February 7,1956, pp. 16, 53, 54 & 55; Attorney General Tom Clark, letters to Loyalty Review Board, released December 4, 1947 and September 21, 1948; the Special Committee on Un-American Activities, House Report 1311 on the CIO Political Action Committee , March 29, 1944, p. 156; and SISS "Handbook for Americans", S. Doc. 117, April 23, 1956, p. 91

These citations are found in The Guide, which is short for Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publications (and Appendixes)revised and published December 1, 1961, including Index, House document No. 398.

The National Council of American-Soviet Friendship along with the openly marxist publication New World Review, sponsored a Rally for Detente and World Peace on the 30th anniversary of V-E Day (May 1975), with "tickets available at "V-E Day Committee, 156 Fifth Avenue, Suite 308, NYC, 10010, CH 3-0666 and CH 3-0667. This address is the home to many Communist Party USA fronts and causes over the decades, as well as related "anti-Vietnam" groups under communist domination if not outright control. Often several fronts or event-fronts occupied the same suite as permanent front groups, which is why the address and suite numbers are important.

Participants in this event, as taken from an ad in the Communist Party USA newspaper, the Daily World were:[5]

Initiating Sponsors:

"Victory over German fascism"

On Friday, May 16, 1975, a similar affair was held to honor the 30th Anniversary Victory Over German Fascism in Chicago. The same three Soviet speakers were there who was also in New York City, with Norm Roth, president UAW Local No. 6, presiding over it. The event was sponsored by two CPUSA fronts, the Chicago Council for American Soviet Friendship, the Chicago affiliate of the NCASF and the Chicago-GDR Friendship Society, the Chicago affiliate of the American-GDR Friendship Society [8]

New American Movement

In 1981 the Lucy Parsons Chapter of the New American Movement and friends honored Milt Cohen and Vicky Starr for their many years of activity in the causes for people's progress and democracy. The members of NAM listed were: Alba Alexander, Bill Barclay, Dan Gillman, Roger Gilman, Debby Holdstein, Rob Persons, Miriam Rabban, Ralph Scott, Julie Skurski, Peg Stroebel, Monty Tarbox and Ed Kucinsky. The friends of NAM listed were: Florence Green and Ben Green, Bob Reed of Seattle, Judy MacLean of San Francisco, Max Gordon of NYC, Quentin Young and Ruth Young of Chicago, Clarence Lipschutz and Peggy Lipschutz of Evanston, Miriam Bazell, Florence Gibbon of Chicago, Bronwen Zwirner of New Bedford, Leonard Lamb and Constance Lamb of Astoria, Helene Susman and Bill Susman of Great Neck, Corinne Golden of Chicago, Robert Havighurst and Edythe Havighurst of Chicago, Sara Heslep, Sandy Barty, Clara Diamont, Pete Seeger, Steve Nelson, Hannah Frisch, Sue Cohen, Gil Green of NYC, Joan Powers, Clarence Stoecker and Rebecca Hobbs of Chicago, James Bond of Oakland, Pat McGauley, Gabby Rosenstein of Santa Monica, Karl Cannon and Fay Cannon of Camarillo, Loriel Busenbard and Steven Starr, Daniel Starr, Beth Starr and Bob Starr (children of Vicky Starr) were listed as friends of the Lucy Parsons Chapter of the New American Movement.[9]

We Will Make Peace Prevail!

On March 28, 1982 the New World Review organized a gala luncheon "We Will Make Peace Prevail! Disarmament Over Confrontation, Life Over Death", at the Grand Ballroom, Hotel Roosevelt, New York City. Virtually all participants were identified as Communist Party USA.

Pete Seeger and Toshi Seeger were listed on the Committee of Sponsors.[10]

CoC National Conference endorser

In 1992 Pete Seeger, Beacon New York, endorsed the Committees of Correspondence national conference Conference on Perspectives for Democracy and Socialism in the 90s held at Berkeley California July 17-19.[11]

Peace for Cuba Appeal

In 1994 Pete Seeger was an initiator of the International Peace for Cuba Appeal, an affiliate of the Workers World Party dominated International Action Center.

Other prominent initiators included Cuban Intelligence agent Philip Agee, academic Noam Chomsky, Congressman John Conyers and Charles Rangel.[12]

Massachusetts May Day

In May 1995 the Communist Party USA newspaper Peoples Weekly World published a May Day supplement. Included was a page offering May Day greetings to Massachusetts Communists Lew Johnson, Laura Ross, and Ann Timpson. Endorsers of the greeting included Pete Seeger.[13]

Communist "Manifestivity"

On October 30 and 31, 1998 the Brecht Forum presented the "Communist Manifestivity to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the Communist Manifesto" at Cooper Union's Great Hall, New York.

Individual endorsers of the event included Pete Seeger.[14]

Rosenberg Fund for Children

In 2003 Pete Seeger was on the Advisory Board of the Rosenberg Fund for Children.[15]

Not In Our Name Newspaper Ad, New York Times, January, 2003

On January , 2003, a group of Maoist marxists and other communists and supporters known as Not In Our Name placed an ad in the "New York Times" against the coming war in Iraq, which featured "A box at the bottom of the ad asks readers to send donations to an organization called the Bill of Rights Foundation[16].

York wrote the following about the Bill of Rights Foundation;

"The Bill of Rights Foundation is a New York-based group that has for years devoted nearly all of its funds to the defense of Abu-Jamal Mumia Abu-Jamal, who shot and killed a Philadelphia police officer in 1981."

Among the "more than 100 well-known Americans" who signed the antiwar statement/ad were:

Peoples World reader

In 2004 Pete Seeger was a reader of the Communist Party USA, Peoples Weekly World[17].

Symposium on James and Esther Jackson

On October 28, 2006, an event entitled "James and Esther Jackson, the American Left and the Origins of the Modern Civil Rights Movement" was held at the Tamiment Library of New York University. Three panels of academics and activists delivered papers illuminating the lives of the James Jackson and his wife Esther Jackson, their co-workers and the struggles in which they participated that helped shape developments in the United States from the late 1930s to the present. Angela Davis, David Levering Lewis, Percy Sutton, Pete Seeger, Michael Nash, Jean Carey Bond, Michael Anderson, Maurice Jackson and Charlene Mitchell delivered papers and spoke at the event. Sam Webb, Debbie Amis Bell and Daniel Rubin were among the estimated 250 individuals who attended the event.[18]

Obama inauguration

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In 2008, Pete Seeger sang at a concert to benefit the Obama presidential campaign.

Pete Seeger at the Obama inauguration party

At Barack Obama's inauguration concert Pete Seeger sang fellow communist Woody Guthrie's socialist anthem "This Land is Your Land" on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.

Fred Klonsky-son of communist Robert Klonsky, former Students for a Democratic Society activist Progressives for Obama supporter and brother of Obama supporter Mike Klonsky, marked the occasion on his blog;

How ironic. Here was the legendary Pete Seeger singing for the president-elect at the Lincoln Memorial. Seeger, a life-long radical, one-time communist, fighter for working people and defender of the environment from corporate greed. For the first time many got to hear the original Woody Guthrie lyrics to This Land is Your Land, which include these words:
There was a big high wall there that tried to stop me;
Sign was painted, it said private property;
But on the back side it didn’t say nothing;
That side was made for you and me.
In the squares of the city, In the shadow of a steeple;
By the relief office, I’d seen my people.
As they stood there hungry, I stood there asking,
Is this land made for you and me?
Nobody living can ever stop me,
As I go walking that freedom highway;
Nobody living can ever make me turn back
This land was made for you and me.

Chicano movement

The 40th Anniversary Commemoration Committee of the Chicano Moratoriums was formed in the summer 2009 by the Chair of the National Chicano Moratorium Committee of August 29, 1970 along with two independent Chicano Movement historians whom although not of the baby boomer generation, have become inspired by the Movimiento. The organization posted a list of significant “Chicano movement” activists on its website which included Pete Seeger.[19]

Nobel Prize for Pete Campaign

Eleanor Walden set up a campaign that aims to promote Seeger for the Nobel Peace Prize Award. California Rep. Barbara Lee nominated him in 2009, but the nomination must be submitted every year to be considered.

The website asks for visitors to sign a petition to support his nomination. The Kendra Alexander Foundation is the fiscal supporter, which takes individual donations on behalf of the campaign and sends them to the campaign.[20]

National Jobs For All Coalition

In 2010, Pete Seeger, was listed as serving on the advisory board of the Democratic Socialists of America dominated National Jobs For All Coalition.[21]

External links

References

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  1. ↑ Committees of Correspondence website: Advisory Board (accessed on Sept. 14, 2010)
  2. ↑ The Rosenberg Fund for Children website: Staff & Boards (accessed on Sept. 14, 2010)
  3. ↑ http://www.peoplesworld.org/pete-seeger-standing-tall-at-85/
  4. ↑ Undated, GI Civil Liberties Defense Committee letterhead circa 1969
  5. ↑ Daily World May 13, 1975
  6. ↑ The KGB Against The "Main Enemy": How The Soviet Intelligence Service Operates Against the United States,Herbert Romerstein & Stanislav Levchenko, pp. 128-130, Lexington Books, 1989
  7. ↑ Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publications (and Appendixes), December 1, 1961, House Committee on Un-American Activities, House Document No. 398, p. 195, New World Review citation as a CPUSA publication SACB, 1956 re the NCSAF. Smith was identified in this citation as "a member of the Board of Directors of the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship was also shown to be a long-time member and functionary in the Communist] Party, as well as in the Party-controlled Friends of the Soviet Union. She has been continuously the editor of Soviet Russia Today and its successor New World Review for years
  8. ↑ Daily World, May 13, 1975, p. 11
  9. ↑ 10th Anniversary Booklet for the New American Movement, 1981
  10. ↑ We Will Make Peace Prevail! event brochure
  11. ↑ CCDS Background
  12. ↑ International Peace for Cuba Appeal - letterhead, Nov. 14, 1994
  13. ↑ PWW May 6, 1995 May Day Supplement page D
  14. ↑ http://www.mail-archive.com/pen-l@galaxy.csuchico.edu/msg30144.html
  15. ↑ Rosenberg Fund for Children Letterhead June 19 2003
  16. ↑ National Review Online, Byron York, January 28, 2003, "The Peace Movement's Mumia Connection"
  17. ↑ http://www.peoplesworld.org/pete-seeger-standing-tall-at-85/
  18. ↑ People's World: James and Esther Jackson: shapers of history, December 15, 2006, by Daniel Rubin (accessed on November 8, 2010)
  19. ↑ Chicano Moratorium website: Moratorium Participants (accessed on April 16, 2010)
  20. ↑ Nobel Prize for Pete Campaign website
  21. ↑ National Jobs For All Coalition: Who We Are (accessed on Nov. 16, 2010)
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