Tuesday, February 04, 2014

Harry Targ :
Progressives need to remember that history is complicated


In the words of Pete Seeger, “Though it’s darkest before the dawn, These thoughts keep us moving on…”

seeger and a guthrie
Arlo Guthrie and Pete Seeger. Image from Last.fm.
By Harry Targ | The Rag Blog | January 28, 2014
[This essay by Harry Targ first appeared at The Rag Blog on October 20, 2010. Moved by the passing of Pete Seeger, Harry reflects, "As we mourn the loss of our movement treasure, we each recall what Pete Seeger has meant to us."]
I became a radical in the 1960s. I kept putting off being active until the late ’60s but I slowly involved myself in the anti-war movement. When I started teaching

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