My friend Julie (no relation) recently posted this on DailyKos, which got rec'ed all over the place. It's a video of Pete Seeger making a rare TV appearance on the Smothers Brothers show, plus a partial transcript of some testimony he gave to the Unamerican Activities Committee in 1950. There's also a link to the full transcript.
You can listen to him sing while you read the transcript. I recommend it.
Funny. A few days ago I was remembering that I was once (briefly) interested in folk music, but I couldn't recall why. All I could remember was "Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair" and the like, which has never been my cup of tea. Amazingly, I had forgotten all about the likes of Pete Seeger and Phil Ochs. (Granted, most of the folk music I remember fondly would actually be considered protest songs, for which there was seemingly little reason to consider in the 80s.)
Thanks, Julie, for the reminder.
Useful Spanish of the day
caza de brujas
(witch-hunt)
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