Seeger in Barcelona!

I recently came across this story/legend/truth/I dunno about Pete Seeger. Seeger was, apparently, invited to perform in Barcelona, Spain in 1971. Spain was still under fascist rule by Francisco Franco. Seeger was told not to play any songs on a list that the fascist government devised. Most of the tunes were Seeger's most famous ones. So Seeger went on stage and just strummed his banjo, and, the whole 100,000 people audience sang all the songs!

Pete Seeger, 25 years old or so, entertaining laborers, soldiers, federal workers, and Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of the president of the USA, in 1944. Photo from wikipedia, by Joseph A. Horne - Photograph by Joseph A. Horne. Via Library of Congress site, Public Domain, Link

The Department of Homeland Security launched a failed operation that ensnared hundreds, if not thousands, of U.S. protesters in what new documents show was as a sweeping, power-hungry effort before the 2020 election to bolster President Donald Trump’s spurious claims about a “terrorist organization” he accused his Democratic rivals of supporting.

If you have what Joe McCarthy called "fellow travelers" as your Facebook friends, you've heard this narrative: "Omigod we all have to vote for Joe Biden because Donald Trump is a FASCIST!" I wrote a diary about this topic back in April: "The Trump-As-Dictator narrative." In this old diary, I wrote:

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/11/01/goog-n01.html

Top legal and security officials for Facebook, Twitter and Google appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday, in a hearing targeting “Extremist Content and Russian Disinformation Online.”

It's not your usual celebratory event. My daughter's boyfriend, who is in the National Guard (in large part to fund his education), is being deployed to Ukraine. Why? Because we're all supposed to fear Russia.