for publication (p.r.)

[Christian Bartolf <mkgandhi at snafu.de>]

PRESS RELEASE: 16 March 2006 (Peggy Seeger)

Peggy Seeger signed the international ""Manifesto against conscription 
and the military system" on 4 March 2006 - only yesterday we received 
her airmail letter with deep gratitude! Together with her late husband 
Ewan MacColl, her brother Mike Seeger and her half-brother Pete Seeger, 
Peggy Seeger was instrumental in reviving the Anglo-American folk song 
tradition, in the footsteps of  her parents: the pioneer of 
ethnomusicology, Charles Louis Seeger, and his wife Ruth Crawford 
Seeger, the first woman to be awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship Award 
for Music. Peggy Seeger composed and performed traditional 
Anglo-American songs and ballads as well as contemporary songs about 
gender issues, nature, ecology, e.g. songs against the lethal danger of 
radioactivity and nuclear reactors ("Sellafield Child", "Plutonium 
Factor", "Wasteland Lullabye"), e.g. the anthem of the British women 
civil disobedience campaign against nuclear weapons and the plutonium 
industry ("Carry Greenham Home"), e.g. songs on women's and workers' 
rights ("I'm Gonna Be An Engineer", "The Ballad of Springhill") - you 
find her website information under: http://www.pegseeger.com - She has 
been an outspoken advocate of Peace, Ecology, Justice and Solidarity 
throughout her creative life as song poet (since 1959), performing 
artist and social activist through her songs and ballads in favour of 
the emancipation of the poor and the oppressed.
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Please have a look at the "Manifesto against conscription and the 
military system"
(with the updated complete list of signatories):
http://home.snafu.de/mkgandhi/manifest.htm
Please have a look at the Gandhi Information Center's websites:
http://home.snafu.de/mkgandhi
email: mkgandhi at snafu.de
http://www.themanifesto.info
email: sign at themanifesto.info
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sgd. Christian Bartolf (Chair, Gandhi Information Center)
http://home.snafu.de/mkgandhi/press1.htm
http://www.themanifesto.info/press.htm