Yes, There is Video of 92-Year-Old Pete Seeger Marching and Singing at Occupy Wall Street
- Posted on October 22, 2011 at 11:30am by
Madeleine Morgenstern
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Activist musician Pete Seeger, 92, center, sings before a crowd of nearly 1,000 Occupy Wall Street protesters at a brief acoustic concert in Columbus Circle, Saturday, Oct. 22, 2011, in New York. The demonstrators marched down Broadway singing "This Little Light of Mine" and other folk and gospel songs, ad-libbing lines about corporate greed and social justice. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
NEW YORK (The Blaze/AP) — Folk music legend Pete Seeger joined in the Occupy Wall Street protest Friday night, replacing his banjo with two canes as he marched with throngs of people in New York City’s tony Upper West Side past banks and shiny department stores.
The 92-year-old Seeger, accompanied by musician-grandson Tao Rodriguez Seeger, composer David Amram, and bluesman Guy Davis, shouted out a verse as the crowd of about 1,000 people sang and chanted.
They marched peacefully over more than 30 blocks from Symphony Space, where the Seegers and other musicians performed, to Columbus Circle. Police watched from the sidelines.
At the circle, Seeger and friends walked to the chant of “We are the 99 percent” and “We are unstoppable, another world is possible.” Seeger stopped to bang a metal statue of an elephant with his cane – to cheers from the crowd.
At the center of the circle, Seeger and Amram were joined by `60s folk singer Arlo Guthrie in a round of “We Shall Overcome,” a protest anthem made popular by Seeger.
Controversial filmmaker Michael Moore posted the following footage of Seeger at the protest to his YouTube account, but it’s unclear whether Moore shot the videos himself.
After more singing, Seeger asked for a mic check to tell the crowd: “The words are simple: I could be happy spending my days on the river that flows both way-ay-ays.”
During the march, the younger Seeger, in troubadour fashion like his grandfather, walked among the protesters playing songs. Amra took up a flute and others enlivened the night protest with the sounds of the accordion, banjos, and guitars.
At the front of the throng, marchers held American flags and a large blue flag that said: “Revolution Generation … Debt is Slavery.” Along the way, the crowd sang protest songs made popular or written by Seeger, Woody Guthrie, and others of the protest era.
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Comments (143)
sullinsea
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 12:58pmHe’s not an artist, just a Broadsider. Always has been.
Report Post »obama-mecca-me-sick
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 2:33pmWho’s Pete Seeger? Seriously never heard of him,or his music. At first glance I thought wow! Bob Seger is92 ? Boy am I getting old!!
Report Post »These people are laughable! The left’s answer to the TEA party is such an embarrassing joke !
tonyintaylortucky
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 4:03pmYou never heard of Pete Seeger????????? Where were you born, Turkmenistan? Seeger is the Godfather of Modern AMERICAN Folk Music.
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 4:05pm“n 2007, in response to criticism from a former banjo student—historian Ron Radosh, who was once a Trotskyite and now writes for the conservative National Review—Seeger wrote a song condemning Stalin, ” … The song was accompanied by a letter to Radosh, in which Seeger stated, “I think you’re right, I should have asked to see the gulags when I was in U.S.S.R [in 1965]” wiki
Pete Seeger might be slow o the uptake, but he does see reason. Of all the leftists that I hear about he is one of the more reasonable. I didn’t say he was reasonable, I said he was more reasonable.
Report Post »decendentof56
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 4:46pmYes, and he is the godfather of American far-left stupidity!
Report Post »taskmaster78
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 7:39pmWow I’m falling over backwards, Pete is at the rally, man I’m just over whelmed. Give me a break. So what?
Report Post »RabidPatriot
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 8:40pmGodfather of the Flea Party.
Report Post »roostercogburn
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 8:51pmWow, I never herd of Pete Seeger either, after some Internet searching I found out I wasn’t missing much, if he is 92 I wonder where he thought he was really at, think he noticed the smell?
Report Post »FormerLib
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 12:03amI guess some libs never outgrow the desperation to be relevant.
Report Post »FormerLib
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 12:07amAnd “We Shall Overcome?” Really? Are these pinheads actually comparing their scattershot “we-hate- everything” protest to blacks gaining civil rights? A songwriter can’t come up with a better song? Oh, the irony, on so many levels.
Report Post »raiderglenn
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 7:42ammore proterters here… LOL
http://goanimate.com/movie/0sGjYdDSKvlA?utm_source=linkshare&uid=0F9wJ-csRjNg
look at all the sheeple…
Report Post »Buck Shane
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 12:59pmThe People posting on Pete are entirely wrong. Pete was not a hippie. Pete had grandchildren who were hippies. He was born in 1919. Pete was the subject of study by McCarthy, and was “Black Listed” at the height of his popularity.
Pete is an unapologetic communist, but not in the ‘60. He was doing pro union songs during the Roosevelt depression.
He is there because he BELIEVES in communism, and if you asked him, that is what he would tell you.
Pete has never been influential – except in his influence on music.
He is not a liberal; he is a communist. I saw him say so – while he was sitting on his 34′ sailboat.
WeDontNeedNoSteenkinBadges
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 3:44pm“Yes, There is Video of 92-Year-Old Pete Seeger Marching and Singing at Occupy Wall Street”
Hey! Isn’t that the old geezer defecating on a NYC police car in the other TheBlaze story?
Report Post »A Conservatarian
Posted on October 24, 2011 at 6:04amNo clue who dude is but that’s a nice 12 string gripped in an A Major chord to his side, the other fellow playing what looks like a 6 string needs to knock off the axe-terbation into the cam lense. Nothing is more of a turn off musically than someone trying to thrust their instrument into your face while they’re playing with it.
Report Post »Baikonur
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 12:55pmYou know, if one was to make a Venn diagram of of America, one would find a great deal of mutual overlap between parts of society that seem so far apart.
Report Post »Baikonur
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 1:01pmFor example, I asked for dog advice once on one of the Blaze threads, and all the stupid hateful comments that we normally exchange instantly disappeared, and people offered sweet, honest and useful advice. People who love dogs, which to me is more important than the political divisions, frankly.
Report Post »mr.goodvibe
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 3:09pmNever trust those damn Romulans!
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 4:10pmThey made one. It was on Freepers. there was a link to it on one of the other news stories.
The coon ground was where private business & government intersect: lobbying.
Except somehow an alliance with astroturf OWs won’t work. Follow the money. Those of us at the Blaze were told that there would be protests as far back as July or farther. It was planned by the left.
Report Post »raiderglenn
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 7:39amCardassian, not Romulan, mr. goodvibe…. how sad is it that I know that? LOL
Report Post »nothertwit
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 4:28amMakes you wonder if someone wants us at each others throats…
Report Post »MrMagoo
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 12:53pmMaroons/progressives/liberals are like water.Easily manipulated and dry as an old bone without.
Report Post »ruffnex
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 2:47pmWhat’s a “Maroon”?
Report Post »sweetgold
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 4:01pmI heard that term when I was in New York ( the area where ows is now). The way it was used implied stupidity or ignorance. Does it fit here????? Maybe.
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 4:12pmBugs Bunny would say “what a maroon”. I wanted to use the term, but I looked it about to see its’ derivation & decide not too.
Report Post »garyM
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 12:52pmHe must have wrote the song ” I‘m just a old Hippie and I don’t know what to do, should I grab on the old or should I hang on to the new!
Report Post »db321
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 1:32amI hear Arlo Guthrey was suppose to be there as well.
1, 2, 3, What are we marching – Nothing!
Report Post »TRUTHandFREEDOM
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 12:49pmA lot of seniors talk about reliving their glory days. The unfortunate thing is that Old Hippies have the opportunity and use it to stand on the wrong side of history twice, even with the blessing of long life giving them extra time to WAKE UP!
Report Post »YepImaConservative
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 1:10pmLol. Another Obama Ignorant, sorry… Inaugural concert singing protestor getting in his last gasps of activist air for the “cause.”
Report Post »Cat
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 2:16pmIt’s actually called; ‘Dementia’ … By liberal psychologists
Report Post »netmail
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 3:16pmIm a bit of an “old hippie” (62) but I prefer to go back in my mind to the mid-50′s up until Nov 21, 1963.
Report Post »disenlightened
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 12:39pmIf I Had a Hammer . . . I’d use it on his head. What a rube.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 12:45pmAll the 60′s radicals are coming out of the woodwork! Healthcare seems to be too good in this country .. Obamacare should take out some of them.
TEA!
Report Post »knighttemplar999
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 12:51pmThat’s damn funny.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 6:09pmWith this OWS crowd around, you’d need a sickle to go with that hammer, comrade Dis !
Report Post »RossPoldark
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 11:39pmPete’s little light went out long ago. I tell you, what I see in these videos is nothing more than mass psychosis!
Report Post »SilentReader
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 12:38pmThis is a disgusting display of the last stand of the 60‘s radicals who were blowing up things like the Pentagon and the police stations in the 60’s and 70′s. The OWS orchestrated-by-Soros et al mayhem movement is sucking in of our young people, who are their paid and fed useful idiots, by deceit and deception.
What we need to overcome is their radical Leftist tyranny. That’s what we need to overcome. A Marxist and Socialist tyranny disguised as a freedom from Wall Street movement.
Death by government is what these OWS people are leading us to. Make no mistake about it.
Report Post »pamela kay
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 1:18amAmen!
Report Post »DSTSS2010
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 12:37pmJust another Communist in the crowd.
Report Post »Baikonur
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 12:34pmThis is so tender hearted and good.
Report Post »garyM
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 12:30pmThat’s easy explained…….second childhood!
Report Post »HTuttle
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 12:29pmAnother devout admitted communist knows where the true OWS heart lies.
Report Post »f2345ranky
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 12:15pmWhat a bunch of usefull idiots if they think that raising taxes on the 1% will be enough to give the 99% free housing, free tuition free everything.
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 12:20pmKinda flys in the face of that old saying that the older you get the wiser you get….Just an old dumbass…
Report Post »motonutt
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 12:23pmHas anyone ever noticed….when yoou are born you are like a blob of helpless flesh, you really don’t know anything….then as you get into old age you revert right back to you were as and infant.
Report Post »92 y.o. blabber…..He probly really thinks it‘s the 60’s…..
MrMagoo
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 12:10pmHe REALLY did crawl out of his sarcophagus.No kidding.
Report Post »krmike
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 12:07pmIdiots of a feather gather together !!!
Report Post »krmike
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 12:06pmIdiots of a feather gather toget her !!!!
Report Post »Annie Fields
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 12:05pmToo bad he’s not black and in a wheel chair then the SEIU thugs could have had another Kevin Gladney moment to be oh-so-proud of.
http://www.anniefields.com/blog
Report Post »krmike
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 12:05pmIdiots of a feather gather together !!!!
Report Post »I.Gaspar
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 12:03pmPathetic.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 12:01pmWhere is Springsteen? He loves the old commie.
Report Post »Viet Vet
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 8:03pmThat’s because Springsteen is a commie.
Report Post »UlyssesP
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 11:58amI’m downloading the complete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Tao Rodriguez Seeger, composer David Amram, and bluesman Guy Davis music catalogs via free torrents today as a protest to their protest of capitalism.
Report Post »I ‘m not going to listen to any of it, but I’ll go ahead and put it online for free for anyone to easily find. Then I’ll sit back and wait for those greedy capitalists Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Tao Rodriguez Seeger, composer David Amram, and bluesman Guy Davis to sue me for redistributing their wealth.
HTuttle
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 12:30pmThe last person to pay for a Seeger tune died in 1975
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 1:07pmWell Said!!!
Report Post »I want some of their wealth!!
Buck Shane
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 11:55amPete was “Black Listed”. He was a communist b4 these people were born.
Report Post »As a performer, he had a number of hits with the Weavers.
He is a large part of the reason you see 5 string banjos and 12 string guitars today.
He has written a number of songs that were very popular including “Where Have All The Flowers Gone.”
I like him – as a performer. I have never ever seen even one reason to believe he was smart.
Buck Shane
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 12:24pmI wonder if the guys playing with him are playing Gibsons.
Report Post »Dudley Do-Right
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 12:53pmVery true, here on the Committees of Correspondence website, he’s listed as an advisory board member.
http://www.cc-ds.org/advisory_bd.html
And here, Keywiki describes the Committees of Correspondence as a breakaway wing of the Communist Party
http://keywiki.org/index.php/Committees_of_Correspondence
And here on the Chicago Democratic Socialists of America website (scroll to Chicago New Party Update), you’ll notice that in 1995, when Obama was running for State Senator Alice Palmer’s vacant seat, he not only joined the New Party which consisted of CoC members, he signed a contract with them! These New Party members were arranging “House Parties.” Was one of these parties the infamous house party that was held in Bill Ayers living room? The time line fits.
Report Post »http://www.chicagodsa.org/ngarchive/ng42.html
gobnait
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 4:52pmWhat’s the difference between an onion and a banjo? No one cries when you chop up a banjo.
Report Post »NOBALONEY
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 11:53amReliving his glory days!
Report Post »Thevoice
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 11:43amAnd these idiots are what , Slaves , To whom or what, Only their own stupidy,So singing we shall overcome . What ? . Over come Obama and the entrance of communisum .Is that it ?.Starting to look lthe longer this goes on. Which by the way is getting funnier and funnier by the day. So a shout out to the protesters ..Hows that tent holding up . You idiots …
Report Post »ares338
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 11:42amI hope they brought along his Ensure and Dependa. Old Hippies never die….they just reappear like pimples on a huge butt!
Report Post »barber2
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 11:37amOld Hippie having a memory lapse – probably attracted to the Peace signs and the “medical ”marijuana “
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