Woody Guthrie’s family tells Josh Hawley ‘This Land Is Your Land’ not for use by ‘insurrectionists’

The family of the author of “This Land Is Your Land” has called on Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) to stop using the song’s lyrics. The Kansas City Star reported Nora Guthrie, daughter of singer Woody Guthrie, wrote an email asking Hawley to stop using the song to promote his “This Land is Our Land Act,” which would prevent U.S. farmland from being owned by anyone associated with the Chinese Communist Party. Guthrie said politicians have long used “This Land Is Your Land” to promote their campaigns and the U.S. “In this particular case, the co-opting or parodying of the lyric by those not aligned with…

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