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Revision as of 07:48, 9 February 2014
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;
- American Peace Mobilization
- American Youth Congress
- American Youth for Democracy
- Council on African Affairs
- American Committee for Yugoslav Relief
- National Council of American-Soviet Friendship
- Civil Rights Congress
- American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born
- Committee for a Democratic Far Eastern Policy
- Jefferson School of Social Science
- New Masses
- Daily World
- Labor Youth League
- California Labor School
- National Lawyers Guild
- Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
- Committee for the First Amendment
- American Peace Crusade
- National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee
- National Committee to Abolish the House Un-American Activities Committee
Vagabond Puppeteers
It was last June when four young college students in New York City got together to find “an interesting way to spend the summer.”
They were Jerry Oberwager, 22; Mary Wallace, 22; Pete Seeger, 20; and Harriet Holtzman, 23, and when they got through laying their plans for an interesting summer, they were the Vagabond Puppeteers and they worked for six weeks to give substance to the title.
To be vagabonds they had to travel and that meant acquiring a 1930 model Oldsmobile and putting it in shape for the road. And to be puppeteers they needed puppets and so they made their own, 22 of them all told.
Then they constructed an outdoor stage, built a rack on top of their jalopy, gathered together cooking utensils and blankets, made room for a banjo an a typewriter and started out — with high spirits but with rather vague notions about their program.
Now they are back, with 4,000 miles of travel behind them and a record of performances in every corner off rural Now York state which delighted an audience that totals 7,250 persons.
Typical of their reception everywhere is the letter of commendation which was given them by the Madison County 4-H Council in Morrisville, N.Y. The council "found that the Puppets attacked a serious problem in a humorous way and were thought—provoking as well as funny. . . . The puppets are real actors."
Typical, too, was the report in the Watertown Times of one of their performances given during the height of the milk strike. The show, said the Times, was “in contrast to the grimness of the picket line.” The portable outdoor stage was set opposite the Sheffield Plant Driveway, and there was an audience of several hundred striking dairy farmers.[4]
Highlander School
Rosa Parks said that the first time she met a white person who treated her with respect was at the Highlander School in Tennessee where she attended a workshop on labor rights and met the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and communist balladeer Pete Seeger. [5]
GI Civil Liberties Defense Committee
Circa 1969, Peter Seeger, New York, was listed as a sponsor of the Socialist Workers Party created and ledGI Civil Liberties Defense Committee(GICLDC) .[6]
Wilfred Burchett 60th Birthday Committee and the Burchett Antiwar Chest Campaign
A half-page notice/ad appeared in the weekly Maoist-oriented US weekly the "Guardian" of February 27, 1971, Pg. 9. It was produced by "The Wilfred Burchett 60th Birthday Committeein association with the Guardian announces "A Burchett Antiwar Chest Campaign". It asked for greetings to be send to Burchett as well "as generous a contribution as possible to swell the Burchett antiwar chest."
Wilfred Burchett was a longtime identified member of the Communist Party of Australia Australian Communist Party, a KGB-recruited journalist (See the SISS hearings "Testimony of Yuri Krotkov", and the wearer of a Red Chinese uniform while propagandizing British and Australian POWS during the Korean War. He was also a Guardian correspondent in Hanoi during the Indochina War and wrote blatantly pro-Communist propaganda stories, as well as geting some columns published in the New York Times.
Among the miriad of communists and pro-communist "Sponsors" of this affair was:
- Jane Fonda
- Noam Chomsky
- Ossie Davis
- Richard Dudman - St. Louist Post-Dispatch
- Al Hubbard - the fake Vietnam veteran and leader of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War in Vietnam (VVAW)
- Dr. Benjamin Spock- the "baby doctor" and later an open marxist candidate from the Peoples' Party
- I.F. Stone - covert member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and identifed KGB asset
- Dr.Quentin Young - identified member of the CPUSA from Chicago; head of the radical Medical Committee for Human Rights (MCHR); personal physician (later) of the future president of the United States, Barack Hussein Obama, and the top CPUSA pusher for a single payer health insurance program/universal healthcare.
See the KW page for "Wilfred Burchett" for a complete list of those who sponsored this ad.
Political Rights Defense Fund
In the early 1970's, the Trotskyite "Socialist Workers Party (SWP) set up a legal defense fund, the Political Rights Defense Fund (PRDF), to attack internal security surveillance and investigations of their illegal ties to the Fourth International, Leon Trotsky's equivalent of the Soviet's Communist International Comintern. The SWP eventually won a court case in which the judge ruled that they did not have to make public their supporters/donors lists because they feared retaliation or repression by the Government (this despite compelling evidence being presented at the trial that they were in violation of the "Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).
The SWP sent out, thru the PRDF, several brochures about the PRDF and their goals, undated by received in the mail between 1973 and 1974. Among the list of "Sponors" of the PRDF listed on them were, twice:
The full list of "Sponsors" can be found under the Political Rights Defense Fund section in the Socialist Workers Party fronts reports here at KW. Seeger sang at President Obama's inauguration in 2009, and interestingly, at least three to four other political/radicals who were as of 2013, were also on one of these lists:
- Rev. Willie Barrows - Operation Push V.P., Chicago; Hanoi visitor (also a friend of Michele Obama
- Percy Sutton - Borough of Manhattan president, New York City
- Dr. Quentin Young -Medical Committee for Human Rights, a mixed communist/radicals support group for various demonstrations against U.S. policies and presidential nominees. Young was also an identified member of the CPUSA (HCUA, Chicago Hearings, 1960's).
- Eliseo Medina - International Executive Committee, United Farm Workers (UFW), who played a major role in enlisting the Hispanic vote for Obama in his presidential elections. He was a member of Obama's National Latino Advisory Council in 2008, and earlier had a key role in planning the AFL-CIO's immigration strategies to open up the borders.[7]
National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression
- Pete Seeger was one of the "sponsors" of the May 11-13, 1973 founding conference of the CPUSA front, the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression NAARPR, which grew out of the Angela David Defense Organization efforts of the CPUSA.
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
- Dr. Edward K. Barsky - Doctor
- Carl Braden
- Joseph Cadden
- Prof. John Henrik Clarke - Professor
- Dr.Irving J. Crain - Doctor
- Judge George W. Crockett - Judge
- Howard da Silva
- Angela Davis
- Dr. Arthur P. Davis - Doctor
- Ernest DeMaio
- Stanley Faulkner - Attorney
- Hugo Gellert
- Rev. Jesse Jackson - Reverend
- Mary Kaufman - Attorney
- Charlene Mitchell
- Anthony Monteiro
- Grace Mora
- Dr. Leith Mullings - Doctor (later Professor)
- William Patterson
- Art Shields
- Modjeska Simpkins
- Jessica Smith
- Helen Sobell - wife of convicted and confessed Soviet spy
- Morton Sobell - convicted and confessed Soviet spy
- James West
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:[8]
- Ossie Davis - Master of Ceremonies - actor - (a longtime supporter of the Communist Party USA and avowed socialist, along with his wife Ruby Dee)
- Pete Seeger - singer (identified member of the Communist Party USA who also supported the Maoist-oriented The Guardian newspaper (US) in later years)
- Boris Polevoy - Soviet author
- Mikhail Ulyanov - Soviet film star
- Tikhon Belsky - Soviet Major General: Stalingrad veteran
- Katherine Camp - International President,Women's International League for Peace & Freedom (a longtime supporter of Communist Party USA and Socialist Workers Party fronts and causes. WILPF was dominated at the national and key chapter level for many decades by identified members of the Communist Party USA and their documented supporters)
- Ernest DeMaio - Permanent Representative of the World Federation of Trade Unions to the United Nations. He was also a longtime identified member of the Communist Party USA and a top Party labor leader in the US. His brother Tony DeMaio was reportedly a Soviet MKVD assassin in Spain during the Spanish Civil War in the 1930's.[9]
Initiating Sponsors:
- Rev. Ralph Abernathy - Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and a Vice-President of the Soviet front, the World Peace Council. He later broke with communist causes.
- Rev. John C. Bennett - One of America's leading religious figures who supported Communist Party fronts and causes for many decades. Was the head of the leftist Union Theological Seminary New York
- Harry Bridges - (Many times identified member of the CPUSA. Also a member of the Australian Communist Party. Former longtime leader of the CPUSA dominated International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union ILWU. Bridges was identified in the Fall issue, Labor Studies, 1995, as one of Moscow's top ten secret Communist Party members in organized American labor.
- Judge George Crockett, Jr. - Identified in Trial By Treason: The National Committee to Secure Justice for the Rosenbergs and Morton Sobell, House Document No. 206, House Committee on Un-American Activities, August 25, 1956, p. 39 as one of "former Communist political prisoners", referring to a statement in a cited "announcement" by the New York Civil Rights Congress about delegations going to "delegations visiting political prisoners throughout the country"
- Ossie Davis - An actor and avowed supporter of "socialism". He amassed a record of support for the Communist Party. its fronts and the Soviet Union from the mid-1950's until he died in the mid-2000's. He was married to Ruby Dee who also has a similar record of supporting the and its fronts. An article about his communist past was published online at www.augustafreepress.com - the archives link to this article may no longer exist. Citation will be added here)
- Ruby Dee - Actress. Married to Ossie Davis who also amassed a decades-long record of supporting the Communist Party and its fronts and causes.
- Anne K. Eaton
- Dr.Luther H. Evans - Identified in the book World Peace Council - List of Members 1977-1980, page 140, published by the Soviet peace front, the World Peace Council as the following: Former Chairperson, World Federalists; Chairman of the Board Coalition for International Cooperation and Peace; former Librarian of Congress.
- Prof. Jerome D. Frank - Longtime supporter of CPUSA fronts and causes.
- Carlton B. Goodlett (MD) - Identified member of the CPUSA and listed in the cited World Peace Council 1980 booklet "List of Members 1977-1980", page 141, as "Publisher; Physician; President, National Newspaper Publishers Association, (Black Press), p. 141. He was also a "sponsor" of the founding of the Soviet's U.S. affiliate of the WPC, the U.S. Peace Council. He was "the main speaker" at the tribute to CPUSA leader Claude Lightfoot in Chicago on February 11, 1979 as printed in the Daily World, February 15, 1979, "800 crowd Chicago hotel to honor Claude Lightfoot".
- Patrick E. Gorman - Socialist supporter of CPUSA fronts and causes. Identified in the CPUSA newspaper Daily World, February 15, 1979, as part of "a committee co-chaired by Mrs. Brenetta Howell Barrett, the Meatcutters International Board Chairman Patrick Gorman and Gus Savage to honor CPUSA leader Claude Lightfoot. The article was written by CPUSA member Ted Pearson, a leader of the Illinois Communist Party and was entitled "800 crowd Chicago hotel to honor Claude Lightfoot". Among those present were Pete Seeger and Rev.Frederick Douglas Kirkpatrick , with telegrams sent to the affair by Gorman, US Representative John Conyers , Rev. Willie T. Barrows - Deputy Director of Operation PUSH; former Southern Christian Leadership Conference president, Rev. Ralph Abernathy, and above cited Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett
- Edward Lamb - Leftist reported millionaire who supported CPUSA fronts and causes for decades, especially those related to supporting the Soviet Union.
- Rev. Richard Morford - Identified as a member of the CPUSA. His religious credentials have been called into question as to whether he actually had a legitimate clergyman certification/schooling. Several identified members of the Communist Party USA were "clergymen", i.e. Howard Melish, Joseph Fletcher, Stephen Fritchman etc.
- Ava Helen Pauling - Wife of identified member of the CPUSA ,Linus Pauling, a college professor and Nobel Prize winning chemist.
- Linus Pauling - Identified member of the CPUSA. See testimony of former CPUSA leader Louis Budenz in hearings on Tax-Exempt Foundations, House Select Committee to Investigate Tax-Exempt Foundations and Comparable Organizations, December 23, 1952, p. 723
- Jessica Smith - Identified member of the CPUSA since the 1920's. Wife of Soviet agent Harold Ware and later married to CPUSA attorney and identified member of the Party, John Abt. See: The Venona Secrets: Exposing Soviet Espionage and America's Traitors, p. 186, Regnery, 2000, Herbert Romestein and Eric Breindel[10]
"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 [11]
Guardian 30th Anniversary Political Meeting and Celebration 1978
A notice of the "Guardian 30th Anniversary Political Meeting & Celebration" was placed in that newspaper's Oct. 4, 1978 issue "marking 30 years of teh Guardian's contributions to the people's movements and a renewed dedication to the struggles of today". Scheduled for October 27, 1978, as the Washington Irving High School, New York City, it promoted meeting "with representatives of the people in struggle including:
- Pete Seeger
[See the "Guardian" section of KW for a complete list of guests/participants mentioned in this ad]
Socialist Debs award
Every year since the mid 1960s the Indiana based Eugene V. Debs Foundation holds Eugene Debs Award Banquet in Terre Haute, to honor an approved social or labor activist. The 1979 honoree, was Pete Seeger.[12]
Palestine Human Rights Campaign project - Emergency Committee to Defend Palestinian Mayors
Pete Seeger was listed as an "Endorser of Emergency Committee' Appeal" re the expulsion of two "West Bank Palestinian Mayors from their homes May 3, 1980" for their support of PLO terrorism.[13].
- The PHRC was a PLO-support organization set up in the U.S. by the Zogby Brothers, among others (i.e. Jim Zogby and John Zogby in late 1977 or early 1978. See the PHRC section here at KW for more information.
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.[14]
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.[15]
National Council of America-Soviet Friendship Peace Rally & Concert 1982
A notice appeared in the Communist Party's newspaper the Daily World (DW) announcing the following: "Peace Rally & Concert" with
- Richie Havens
- Pete Seeger
- Ossie Davis
- New Song Quintet
- Rep. Parren Mitchell - (D-Md)
- Anne Braden
- Ernest de Maio and
- A Senior Official from the Soviet Embassy
May 7 (1982), 8 p.m., Carnegie Hall tickets $5-$25 at box office (212) 247-7459 or call (212) 679-4577
National Council of American-Soviet Friendship (NCASF) - this was congressional cited as a Soviet/KGB front many times and later reaffirmed in the 1980's in special FBI reports on "Soviet Active Measures" given to Congress.[16]
National Preparatory Committee for the 12th World Festival of Youth and Students 1985
The April 1985 insert Dynamic of the Young Communist League (YCL), appeared in a April 1985 edition of the CPUSA's newspaper, the Daily World.
Among the "Partial list of endorsers as of March 20, 1985", was:
- Pete Seeger - Singer/songwriter
The National Preparatory Committee was the World Festival of Youth and Students (WFYS]] arm in the U.S., created and dominated by the CPUSA and their youth arm, the YCL. The WFYS was an apparently a project of the Soviet front, the World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY) though this was totally covered up in the article.
DSA concert
On April 23, 1991 Democratic Socialists of America brought together a crowd of at least 800 to the Riverside Church in New York City to hear Billy Bragg, Pete Seeger, Gretchen Reed, Robin Holcomb, and Kate McGarrigle and Anna McGarrigle. Amid the stunning atmosphere of the church, the performers entertained and inspired the audience with songs and stories of the struggle for social justice. DSA's Rafael PiRoman served as Master of Ceremonies and Manhattan Borough President Ruth Messinger introduced the event. The concert was sponsored by Youth For Jobs, Peace and Freedom, a project of the Institute for Democratic Socialism and the DSA Youth Section.[17]
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.[18]
Honoring the Sidels
New York City Democratic Socialists of America held a fundraising bash on December 7 1992, at which longtime activists Ruth Sidel and Victor Sidel were awarded the Paul Du Brul Memorial Award. Approximately 150 people gathered to honor the Sidels, to enjoy a performance by Pete Seeger and Randy Harris, and to hear remarks by Manhattan Borough President Ruth Messinger and other political and labor leaders.[19]
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.[20]
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.[21]
Letter to the Editor, People's Weekly World, October 12, 1996, Page 16
In the Oct. 12, 1996 edition of the CPUSA's "People's Weekly World" PWW, Peter Seeger wrote the following "Letters" - "Music to our ears" - "(Your) fine editorials, and, in the same issue, the statistical info comparing social welfare $ to corporate wlefare $ and Pentagon $ prompt me to this belated contribution." Peter Seeger, Beacon, New York
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.[22]
Robeson event sponsors
On May 31 1998 the Peoples Weekly World held a Paul Robeson birth centennial celebration in New York, at the Henry Winston Auditorium.
Speakers included Gus Hall, chairman of the Communist Party USA and Roger Green of the NY State Assembly.
Sponsors of the event included poet Amina Baraka, Grace T. Bassett, actress Vinie Burrows, former Peoples Voice editor Marvel Cooke, Councilmember Tom Duane, Attorney Rob Ellis, Assemblymember Roger Green, Gus Hall, Councilmember Bill Perkins, labor unionist Bobbie Rabinowitz, actor John Randolph, Pete Robinson, poet Sonia Sanchez, singer Pete Seeger, labor unionist Chris Silvera, PWW editor Tim Wheeler, New York City Coalition of Black Trade Unionists president Jim Webb and labor unionist Ira Williams.[23]
Rosenberg Fund for Children
In 2003 Pete Seeger was on the Advisory Board of the Rosenberg Fund for Children.[24]
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 (NION) 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[25].
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."
- Judith Levin - President of the Foundation
- Leonard Weinglass - for a long time he was Mumia's lead attorney
- Marlene Kamish - succeeding attorney for Mumia
Among the "more than 100 well-known Americans" who signed the antiwar statement/ad were:
- Pete Seeger
- Ed Asner
- Martin Sheen
- Susan Sarandon
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Alice Walker
- Barbara Kingsolver
- Graham Nash
- Bonnie Raitt
Peoples World reader
In 2004 Pete Seeger was a reader of the Communist Party USA, Peoples Weekly World[26].
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.[27]
Endorsed people's World
Seeger made a personal endorsement of the Communist Party USA's People's World of June 2, 2007, on page 2 of the publication.
Obama inauguration
In 2008, Pete Seeger sang at a concert to benefit the Obama presidential campaign.
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.[28]
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.[29]
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.[30]
"Free the Cuban 5"
From an April 8,2011 letter.
"Dear President Carter:
We, Actors and Artists United for the Freedom of the Cuban 5, want to extend our deepest gratitude for your recent visit to Cuba, as well as our support for your statements promoting improved relations between our countries.
Your call for the release of Gerardo Hernandez Nordelo, Antonio Guerrero Rodriguez, Fernando Gonzalez Llort, Ramon Labanino Salazar, and Rene Gonzalez Sehwerert, known as the Cuban 5, and your willingness to visit with their family members in Cuba mean a great deal to all involved. We strongly agree that there is no reason to keep these men, who were simply trying to protect their country from terrorism, imprisoned any longer...
Further, we enthusiastically support you in having subsequent discussions with President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and hope you will call for urgent action on their part to make right this unjust situation.
Again, we thank you and look forward to the possibility of improved relations and future visits to Cuba.
With respect,
Ed Asner, Co-Chair , Danny Glover, Co-Chair, Jackson Browne , James Cromwell, Mike Farrell, Richard Foos, Elliott Gould, Chrissie Hand , Francisco Letelier, Esai Morales, Graham Nash , Bonnie Raitt, Susan Sarandon, Pete Seeger, Martin Sheen , Betty Sheinbaum, Stanley Sheinbaum, Andy Spahn, Oliver Stone ,Haskell Wexler[31]
External links
References
Template:Reflist Template:Eugene V. Debs Award recipients Template:Endorsers of the Conference on Perspectives for Democracy and Socialism in the 90s
- ↑ Committees of Correspondence website: Advisory Board (accessed on Sept. 14, 2010)
- ↑ The Rosenberg Fund for Children website: Staff & Boards (accessed on Sept. 14, 2010)
- ↑ http://www.peoplesworld.org/pete-seeger-standing-tall-at-85/
- ↑ Daily Worker, October 2, 1939, Interesting Summer by Lawrence Emery, YOUNG PUPPETEERS IN UNIQUE TOUR OF RURAL AREAS
- ↑ PW, The vision of Rosa Parks, by: Joelle Fishman, March 1 2013
- ↑ Undated, GI Civil Liberties Defense Committee letterhead circa 1969
- ↑ "Barack Obama and the Enemies Within", Trevor Loudon, 2011, www.pacificfreedomfoundation.org
- ↑ Daily World May 13, 1975
- ↑ 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
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