This Land Is Our Land!

July 4, 2018 //

This song by Woody Guthrie is one of the best ever written about our beloved nation. He also wrote “Union Maid” (“I’m Sticking to the Union”), posted earlier. Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger were national treasures, troubadours of democracy and the American spirit.

Who does it belong to?

Not the 1%.

This land belongs to you and me.

Categories Democracy, Education Reform

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GregB says:

July 4, 2018 at 1:37 pm

Let’s not forget The Impressions and wonderful music that was the soundtrack to the Civil Rights Movement.

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alphawolf1 (@alphawolf1) says:

July 4, 2018 at 1:40 pm

It used to belong to us. It’s been getting taken away from this corrupt administration for almost 2 years. If something isn’t done with what that corrupt AH running the EPA is doing, it’s gone as in GONE.

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- retired teacher says:
  
  July 4, 2018 at 2:21 pm
  
  Did you see the video of the Sidwell Friends’ teacher confronting Scott Pruitt and urging him to resign? https://www.msnbc.com/velshi-ruhle/watch/epa-chief-scott-pruitt-confronted-in-public-by-teacher-1269441603761
  
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Steve Ruis says:

July 4, 2018 at 1:45 pm

Well, it may be “ours” now, but it used to belong to the Native Americans but they didn’t keep up their properties after we shot them all.

If you look at who owns the “land” and realize that the government owned land has been taken over by the Bundys and their crew, it is clearly not us who owns the land. (Hint: it’s them.)

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Ed says:

July 4, 2018 at 2:02 pm

Please share:

Re-examining the Revolution » Zinn Education Project
https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/re-examining-the-revolution/

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- BA says:
  
  July 5, 2018 at 11:43 am
  
  You are sharing a link that requires registration to access the material. Boo.
  
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- Yvonne Siu-Runyan says:
  
  July 6, 2018 at 9:42 am
  
  Thanks, Ed.
  
  Love the Zinn Education Project. I looked for information about the 4th of July in 2018, and nothing was there. I wonder why.
  
  Howard Zinn lives … YEAH.
  
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Kas Winters says:

July 4, 2018 at 5:03 pm

LOVE! Many years ago I was part of a singing group called IMPACT and this was one of the songs we performed. Very Powerful!

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sheila schlesinger says:

July 4, 2018 at 6:31 pm

The NYTimes indicated that Guthrie wrote This Land is My Land in opposition to Berlin’s song, “God Bless America”

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David Perry says:

July 5, 2018 at 5:07 am

Don’t forget Woody’s finest contribution against the Trump family:

“I suppose that Old Man Trump knows just how much racial hate
He stirred up in that bloodpot of human hearts
When he drawed that color line
Here at his Beach Haven family project

Beach Haven ain’t my home!
No, I just can’t pay this rent!
My money’s down the drain,
And my soul is badly bent!
Beach Haven is Trump’s Tower
Where no black folks come to roam,
No, no, Old Man Trump!
Old Beach Haven ain’t my home!”

… and his guitar said “This machine kills fascists”. He was way ahead of any of us, which is saying something for a person who died over 50 years ago.

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FLERP! says:

July 5, 2018 at 5:06 pm

Not quite on the level of the Car Song, but it’s a good one, for sure.

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- GregB says:
  
  July 5, 2018 at 5:57 pm
  
  Thanks for that memory! It’s been too long since I listened to that one, which I will correct now. Off for some needed click, clack, click, clack, boom, boom, and bit of a-oogah.
  
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  - FLERP! says:
    
    July 5, 2018 at 6:00 pm
    
    It’s hilarious. I have to say, his “children’s songs” are where I think his real genius lay.
    
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