“I Can Feed You”—Farming, Activism, and Food Justice
August 26, 2016
Text and photos By Virginia Hamilton This summer was a particularly rough one. While wading through a host of personal issues, I was also absorbing a constant onslaught of images of bloodied, dust-covered children being pulled from wreckage and black bodies dying on shaky cell phone cameras. Refugees, soaking and sinking. Too little water and […]
Pete Seeger’s lessons for we who sing, and we who stand nearby
February 6, 2014
(Pete Seeger at the Great Hudson River Revival, 2011) (Post title comes from Seeger’s song, “To My Old Brown Earth”) Last Monday morning sometime after six, I heard the radio talking about Pete Seeger’s career and said aloud, “Oh, no.” Throughout the day and week I read many tributes and memorials in the news […]