°¨¨™¤¦ مسابقة اللغة الانجليزية – Step#5 ¦¤™¨¨° -للتعليم

حياكم الله وبياكم وتبوأتم من الجنة منزلاً ،،

The farmers fighting that high voltage power line begin reaching out to other farmers in order to build a larger rural coalition. It was in this spirit that farmers named Virgil Fuchs and I take a trip to Appleton, where the first American Agriculture Movement strike office in Minnesota was established.

When we arrive at the strike office it was crowded with sugar beet farmers with his feed caps on. Virgil talk to them about how the big utilities had lied to the farmers in his county in order to got an easement to built their high-voltage power line. He then asked me to sing a couple of song. When I got done singing this man everyone called "The Governor" said, "Larry, you remind me of Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger." The man’s name were Elmer Benson. When Elmer was governor of Minnesota and the lumberjacks were on strike, Elmer called the National Guard out on the company! The lumberjacks won the strike.

Elmer told me many story of when Pete and Woody comes to the Midwest singing for the farmers and workers in need, and he called Pete and told him about my work. The next thing I know I was on an American Agriculture Movement tractorcade heading east to Washington D.C. It was a slow trip that was started by a lonesome farmer from the Fargo/Moorhead area in a non-enclosed cab in the middle of winter.

By the time we reached Washington D.C., we were 100 miles long, single file, pulling into our nation’s capital. I stay in Washington D.C. for three months with those farmers that year. While I was there Pete Seeger called the national strike office and asked for me. Pete told me about his singing in Washington D.C. with dairy farmers in the 1930s.

I visited Pete and his wife Toshi at their home in upstate New York. What I remember most from that visit was going along the shores of the Hudson with Pete. While talking, Pete began to reach down and pick up cigarette butts along the shore. Soon I began doing the sameمall the while talking. Then we were walking between fishermen fishing and throwing their cigarette butts and aluminum cans into paper bags. Next thing we know those same fishermen have stop fishing, and they’re picking up their own cigarette butts and cans, and within a very short period of time that little section of the Hudson River was cleaned up.

That moment redirected my life for the next ten years. After I returned to Minnesota I helped start a movement called the Mississippi River Revival whose main functions were to pick up both visible and invisible trash along and in the river and to celebrate the diverse culture of people along her banks.

Once you meet Pete you end up doing a whole lot more work for other people than you imagined yourself ever doing. Pete just has that way with people. He makes you feel like you can change the world, and before you know it that’s exactly what you’ve done.