Author Archives: John Wallenfeldt

Remembering Pete Seeger

America lost a voice of the people today. Pete Seeger passed on early today. I remember my father and grandfather teaching me about him and the Guthries and the voices who kept those fighting for their rights a reason to unify, and sometimes to smile. They told the stories of our nation, often in the only way folks would listen to them.

Start here. They keep adding stuff over at the Maddow blog and there hasn’t been a bad piece yet.

If you still can, read the New York Times obituary.

Also read this from PRI.

Some backstory on Seeger and his fight against censors and the hate-filled boogeymen like Joe MacCarthy.

And, a rememberance, from a contemporary.

Let us wrap up with this from the Nightly News.

Planet Money Makes A T-Shirt

This was an interesting – and somewhat sad – series about how much effort goes into making our clothes, as well as how little concern is given to those doing the actual work.

Give yourself some time to properly give it all a listen.

And here is a sort of follow-up story concerning the origin of some donated shirts and the stories behind them.