National Academy of Child Development 1982 TV PSA
A very rare YouTube video of Neil Young in 1982 doing a Public Service Announcement for the National Academy of Child Development of Puget Sound, Washington.
Is it any wonder that Neil & Pegi would go on to found the The Bridge School a few years later? Thanks Bob D.!
@ Bridge School Benefit Concert 2011
Photo Gallery by By Jay Blakesberg Photography
Simply beautiful, Neil stepping up to help the kids in need, combined with that good old warm and fuzzy early 80s public television aesthetic.
ReplyDeleteExactly Tomatron. Thanks.
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Mother Nature on the Run said...
I look at that PSA and I want to cry.
Not because I feel sorry for Neil or those kids. I want to cry because even today we still put parents and their kids in a situation where they have to remind other people that they EXIST and most often that their basic needs are going unmet and require fundraising.
Why in the most resourceful and wealthiest country on the planet, a country that brags about "universal & natural inalienable rights" for all citizens, we still have to fundraise for their basic needs?
The challenges (and barriers) they face should be enough to motivate a society to want something better for them. Shouldn't it be our job to reach out to them -- to find out what they need -- and not the other way around?
Why are people so complacent?
To expect to be sued by your own insurance company because it's standard practice? Business as usual? To sort through thousands upon thousands of pages of legislation to figure out whether or not a child qualifies for assistive technologies?
We live in a city of dreams...