{"id":13663,"date":"2018-09-18T13:06:10","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T17:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=13663"},"modified":"2020-01-05T07:38:15","modified_gmt":"2020-01-05T12:38:15","slug":"jackson-browne-honored-in-new-haven-with-promoting-enduring-peaces-gandhi-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=13663","title":{"rendered":"Jackson Browne honored in New Haven with Promoting Enduring Peace\u2019s Gandhi Award"},"content":{"rendered":"
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EDUCATION FOR PEACE .<\/p>\n

An article by Mark Zaretsky from the New Haven Register<\/a><\/p>\n

Musician\u00a0Jackson Browne\u00a0<\/a> was honored Friday night for a lifetime of activism by\u00a0Promoting Enduring Peace<\/a>, accepting the Gandhi Award, which previously went to Eleanor Roosevelt, Dr. Martin Luther King, Dr. Benjamin Spock, Linus Pauling and Cesar Chavez, among others.<\/p>\n

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\nJackson Browne, scene from video of Gandhi Peace Award by Mark Zaretsky<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

Browne was the first performing artist to receive the award. Roosevelt was the first winner, back in 1960. Promoting Enduring Peace is based in New Haven.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m happy to be here to accept this tremendous honor,\u201d Browne told the crowd in the Lyman Center for the Performing Arts at\u00a0Southern Connecticut State University. He added that he knew of a number of musicians he considered more deserving of the honor, but that so many of his heroes had received it in the past that he couldn\u2019t say no.<\/p>\n

He said that \u201cwith all in the world that needs fixing, I\u2019ve always been drawn to those who try,\u201d and that, as an musician who is also an activist, \u201cmy part of this has been to help bring people together. Music is good for that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, \u201cmy education has been advanced by the contact with all those committed activists, working on all those fronts,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Browne\u2019s acceptance speech was political at times, with him saying, \u201cthe United States must rejoin the world and put the planet first.\u201d He also suggested it\u2019s time to move toward \u201cenduring peace\u201d rather than \u201cenduring war,\u201d saying that the U.S. hasn\u2019t really been at peace since before World War II.<\/p>\n

Browne was introduced by environmental activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who said Browne \u201cwalks the walk\u201d \u2014 right down to having a windmill on his farm in California.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe understands that the environment is intertwined with democracy,\u201d Kennedy said.<\/p>\n

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What place does music have in the peace movement?<\/a><\/p>\n

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Browne did not perform for this gig \u2014 although he said he was a horrible speechwriter and would have preferred to sing.<\/p>\n

That honor went to Ben Grosscup and Luci Murphy of the\u00a0People\u2019s Music Network<\/a>, described as \u201ca group of people who follow in Jackson\u2019s footprints\u201d in terms of using music to promote activism.
\n\u201cWe are so happy to be part of this event, honoring Jackson\u201d for the work he has done, said Grosscup, the group\u2019s executive director.<\/p>\n

The award, named after Indian anti-imperialist and nonviolence advocate Mohandas Gandhi, comes with a $5,000 cash prize as well as a medallion forged from metals salvaged from the control systems of U.S. nuclear missiles.<\/p>\n

Promoting Enduring Peace President Paul Hodel said Browne employs \u201can essential idea of Gandhi\u2019s actions … satyagraha,\u201d or \u201cholding onto peace.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other speakers included SCSU President Joe Bertolino, city Director of Arts, Culture & Tourism Andrew Wolf \u2014 who read a proclamation from Mayor Toni Harp declaring it \u201cJackson Browne Day\u201d in New Haven \u2014 Frida Berrigan, Chris George of Iris, PEP Administrator Stanley Heller and PEP\u2019s James C. Van Pelt.<\/p>\n

\u201cLike so many of you \u2014 and so many people around the world \u2014 we were raised on the words of Jackson Browne,\u201d said Wolf.<\/p>\n

In its news release announcing Browne\u2019s choice for the award, Promoting Enduring Peace cited Browne\u2019s songs that have \u201cdirectly challenged imperialist foreign policy, environmental short-sightedness and corporate greed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Browne, in response to the Three Mile Island nuclear plant malfunction in 1979, co-founded Musicians United for Safe Energy, MUSE. The group had a series of benefit concerts in New York City that year and a movie of those shows, \u201cNo Nukes,\u201d followed.<\/p>\n

In the late 1970s, Browne also joined the protests and occupation at the Seabrook nuclear plant site in New Hampshire. Browne also was active in the Central America solidarity movement, co-organizing shows in Nicaragua, Cuba and elsewhere.<\/p>\n

He is a member of the group Ocean Elders who more recently has focused on the environmental crisis in the seas, where plastics threaten wildlife.<\/p>\n

Browne last December released the song \u201cThe Dreamer\u201d about the new deportation threat under the Trump administration for those who had been protected temporarily under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe measure of a good song is that it doesn\u2019t need explaining,\u201d Browne said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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