Seeger, Guthrie join Occupy Wall Street rally

CBS News / The Associated Press ^ | October 22, 2011

[2ndDivisionVet]

NEW YORK -- Folk music legend Pete Seeger and '60s folk singer Arlo Guthrie joined Occupy Wall Street demonstrators in their campaign against corporate greed while residents near the protest park encampment pushed to regain some peace and quiet in their neighborhood.

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 the verses of protest anthems as the crowd of about 1,000 people sang and chanted.....

[2ndDivisionVet]

Communists serenading communists. How reminiscent of the Spanish Civil War is that? What next? The Abraham Lincoln brigade II?

[txroadkill]

I was just complaining about how the hippies of the 60’s gave us great music and all we get is “Who’s streets..” and “this is what democracy looks like”. Finally, maybe now we’ll get something we can dance to.

[ReneeLynn]

This is nothing but hippies reliving the gory days, and wannabe young hippies trying to get a taste of what it was like to be a hippy. Good God.

[tflabo]

Dust off the relics and send them out to battle again. Dang Pete Seeger was old back in the 60’s. Long life in capitalist America has been good to him. Keep us all revolting Pete Geezer—banjo on!

[2ndDivisionVet]

[keving]

Seeking relevance, seeking a purpose, seeking their savior. Beats wondering the desert.

[DJ MacWoW]

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[NoGrayZone]

Who?

[tflabo]

Keith Richards decided to show up and play drums too for the adoring crowd.

[NoGrayZone]

I clicked on the photos. The 4th or 5th one in “who would Jesus foreclose on”?

Obviously this boy doesn’t know Jesus.

[MestaMachine]

That’s what I was thinking. How many of the “protesters” except for the octogenarians even have a clue who these relics are?

[txhurl]

Are either one of the other two Zach de la Rocha from RATM? Haven’t seen Zach in a while, he may have further uglified on us.

[IbJensen]

Arlo. What a neat guy!

[tflabo]

"Our neighbors do not urinate and defecate in the street," said resident Linda Fairstein, WCBS-TV reports. "These occupiers need to vacate our neighborhood."

Sorry Linda Fairstein....under king Bloomers reign its the crap takers that get preference over the tax payers. Now go do your 'FairShare' duty--no pun intended.

[NoGrayZone]

Down with corporations!!!...oh wait, maybe I should remove my hat first.

[Raider Sam]

And they will all burn their draft cards and sing about how this land is their land and get everything they want from Alice. Which makes sense because all they seem to want is everything.

[NoGrayZone]

I’m 41 and have NO idea who they are. Guess you have to be into “folk”, or just pretend to know.

[Raider Sam]

Unfortunately for America, Woody had all the talent but Arlo came in the time of mass production of music.

As much as the politics suck, some of Woody’s songs were top notch. And he once said that he couldnt go full bore commie because he couldnt give up on religion (not an exact quote.)

[Raider Sam]

That’s not Keith Richards. It’s Lady Gaga without her makeup.

[Raider Sam]

No, Zach only protests capitalism if he is paid to show up. Tom Morello said that was ok.