Children’s Singer Raffi on Creating a Society That Respects and Cherishes Kids
Today is International Children’s Day. To celebrate, we spoke to beloved children’s singer Raffi about nurturing the creativity and sense of play of children, his support for Bernie Sanders, organizing against climate change and for racial justice, and how we can create a society in which we “admire and respect the young child as a whole person.”
Raffi is one of the most renowned children’s singers in the world. Raffi / Twitter
Today is International Children’s Day, a holiday first established by the United Nations in 1925 to honor kids around the world. Children’s singer Raffi has made such respect central to his long career as an entertainer for kids. Once called “the most popular children’s singer in the English-speaking world” by the Washington Post, Raffi has recorded dozens of albums, sold over 15 million records, and written numerous books both for kids and adults.
He also has a long history as a progressive activist. Raffi has been deeply involved in climate change activism, as anyone who follows him on Twitter can attest, and supported Bernie Sanders’s two presidential campaigns.
In honor of International Children’s Day, Jacobin’s Hadas Thier spoke with Raffi about how we can construct a society that puts respect for kids at its core.
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