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It's Official: Downtown Gets A Woody Guthrie Square

AP | Posted 04.12.2012

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LOS ANGELES -- This square is his square. An intersection in downtown Los Angeles will now bear the name of Woody Guthrie as the city celebrates the ...

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Woody Guthrie's Los Angeles

Peter Dreier | Posted 04.10.2012

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Peter Dreier

Surely if Guthrie -- best known for "This Land Is Your Land," often considered America's alternative national anthem -- were alive today, he'd be writing songs about families fighting bank foreclosures, university students protesting tuition increases, workers organizing and people mobilizing for immigrants rights.

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Here's a Way to Never Be Unemployed

Dave Astor | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dave Astor

Many Americans are maxing out on their unemployment benefits amid cries from Republicans that they're lazy bums who should get a job. Sure, there's on...

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Pete Seeger Continues to Inspire "Tomorrow's Children"

Holly Cara Price | Posted 05.25.2011

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Holly Cara Price

91 year old Pete Seeger recently told a Rolling Stone journalist that his new album, Tomorrow's Children, is "the most inspiring thing I've ever done....

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Pete Seeger, Mark Ruffalo Protest Hydrofracking (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

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Pete Seeger and actor Mark Ruffalo traveled to Albany Tuesday to push for a moratorium on hydrofracking. The two celebrities were flanked by environ...

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This Land Is Your Land

Alec Baldwin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Alec Baldwin

I keep thinking about how the corporate boot-licking band of reactionaries that are calling the shots from the Republican side of the Supreme Court are going to rule on any BP-related litigation that may make it to their chamber.

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The Role of Song in Advancing Health Care Reform

Peter Yarrow | Posted 05.25.2011

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Peter Yarrow

Let us sing, not to confront or protest the absence of an equitable health care system, rather to affirm our commitment to allowing all Americans the right of affordable medical care.

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An American Tune

Anne Hill | Posted 05.25.2011

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Anne Hill

It's one of those weird things, the patriotic hymns of your youth still live in your heart somewhere, despite all the things you learn in the meantime.

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Why Not One Country

Rich Silverstein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rich Silverstein

2008-10-30-thisland.jpg Our country is all the "real America," from sea to sea. It's one place and in tough times, it's all the more important to remind ourselves of what we share, rather than what divides us.

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