Monday, May 4, 2009
Illusions of Freedom
Reading about the tribute to Pete Seeger, I am full of schadenfreude. Of course his life and work should be celebrated, and the energy from the concert may energize us to carry on the struggle. Or will it seduce us into a premature illusion of freedom and victory that will excuse us from the fight? We who believe in freedom cannot rest. Only 15,000 people could afford the fare to the concert. I hope they all consider that their call to ensure that the next concert should be bigger and freer than Woodstock.
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Pete would be the first person to remind us that the struggle for equality and justice isn't nearly won. I don't know the details of the MSG concert, but in recent years we have encountered Pete and Tao Rodriguez playing cheap or free concerts in all sorts of venues. We saw him most recently at Carnegie Hall with Arlo Guthrie, but a couple of months before that he and Tao played a free concert outside the Lincoln Center. I took some great close-up photos of Pete when he played at a very low-budget outdoor folk concert at Tinnicum Park in Washington's Crossing, Pa.
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