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This Land Is Your Land: The Story Behind the Song

The Kennedy Center The Kennedy Center
Today, this classic folk song is usually sung as a popular pro-America anthem by Americans of every background. But it was written to have a radical edge that hollered for the country to make its bounty available to rich and poor alike.

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A Patriot’s Fourth of July

Victor Grossman Berlin Bulletin #213
The world needs millions to join in this fight, this fight back! In the United States, there have been models enough of genuine patriots. There is a need for U.S. patriots who are at the same time “world patriots.”

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