Passions/anxieties about policy

I chose to share with you all Woody Guthrie: This land is your land.

 

I grew up listening to Woody Guthrie and thought that this song illustrated my passions related to advocating and protesting for change. Woody Guthrie was one of the most notable protest singers in the 1940’s.  Woody Guthrie wrote This land is your land in response to the song “God Bless America” being that he thought the lyrics were unrealistic.  He protested against class inequality in the song. Also to be noted that Guthrie signed the manuscript “All you can write is what you see.”