Labor Day
In honor of Labor Day weekend, I share with you this commentary by one of Labor's greatest friends, Pete Seeger.
Vicki Blucher, one of this site's best friends, sent it to me. She received it from a friend of hers ...
I saw Pete last week at the annual Hudson River Swim for the River Pool at Beacon (www.riverpool.org) and asked him about the "Internationale" song which had been the workers' anthem in many languages till it became associated with Communism and fell into disuse. Don't we need it to come back? I asked Pete. He said there are so many good young songwriters now who are saying what needs to be said about the state of our world. Then he said something that I thought was so important I asked him to write it down & send it to me. Here it is:"'The powers that be' have so much money, they can control almost any big thing they want - attack it from the outside, corrupt it or mislead it from the inside. But what can they do about millions upon millions of little things? As I look around America today I see so many good little things I am more optimistic than I was 60 years ago when the truth about the atom bomb sunk thru my skull. We have a better than a 50/50 chance now!
Please continue to do one or some of the million little things that you have been doing and please pass this on to your friends so they can too."