This Land Is Your Land

[filkertom]

My fellow Americans: No matter your political inclination, this will, I hope, make you feel fantastic.

When I grow up, I wanna be Peter Seeger.

ETA: This thread at dKos has videos of a lot more of the afternoon concert, as well as Obama's speech. There's also the text of the prayer delivered by The Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson, Episcopal Bishop of New Hampshire, which HBO apparently didn't deign to broadcast, which is a damn shame.

ETA2: YouTube has taken down all the video they can find of this, because HBO is claiming copyright violation. Of the inaugural concert? I suspect there will be a little noise on this.

ETA3: Can't stop the signal.

ETA4: A new embed, above. Thanks to braider.

Comments

[bayushisan.livejournal.com]

What made me smile more than anything else was looking at the crowd singing together happily. With all the pain and the bad things in the world all those people came together to sing and do so with joy.

If that doesn't move you, I can't think of anything that would.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

That's what's gonna save us, m'friend. The ol' roll-up-your-sleeves-and-do-it-together thing. Which, when motivated properly, we're pretty darn good at.