Woodie Guthrie

'His Legacy Lives On': Pete Seeger Remembered on What Would Have Been 100th Birthday

Pete Seeger (1919-2014) headlined the Rockin' Earth Day Fest at Teachers College at Columbia University on April 18th, 2009.

Pete Seeger Labeled 'Subversive' After Speaking Out Against Plan to Deport Japanese

Lauren McCauley, staff writer

Newly released 1,700-page FBI file shows the US government 'went to lengths' to track beloved folk icon

Pete Seeger (1919-2014): Activist, Folk Legend has Died

Jon Queally, staff writer

'My job,' he once said, 'is to show folks there’s a lot of good music in this...

Woody Guthrie, says Daughter, was a 'Commonist' Not a 'Communist'

Common Dreams staff

As many celebrate the folk singer's legacy, his message finds resonance amid...

Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie Join Occupy Wall Street

Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary Dead From Cancer at 72

No Repeat of the New Deal Jump-Start

Odetta Holmes Dies at 77; Folk Singer Championed Black History, Civil Rights

Outside Agitator: Naomi Klein and the New New Left

Anti-War Song Gets The Fingers

Sheehan Fires Up Crowd at Wisconsin's 'Fighting Bob Fest'

Further

This Is Your World

Thank God, almost done. Some final video nudges, elegant to profane, to remind you what's needed here and now: A gentle Three Pigs and Wolf metaphor from Stanley Tucci and Funny Or Die - "You got to come out, take a stand, stop the wolf" - a passionate, obscene, hilarious "Holy Sh*t You've Got To Vote" plea to stop the "orange talking STD" and "sentient septic tank" in our midst, and a revisit to Woody Guthrie's stubbornly patriotic avowal, "This is your world."