‘You are the machine that kills hate’: Woody Guthrie’s protest anthems strike a chord with a new generation

A timely exhibit at NYU celebrates the anti-fascist folk artist – despite the university’s recent suppression of campus protests Bea Esteves Mendez knew as much about Woody Guthrie as most people her age – which is to say, she knew This Land is Your Land – when one of her professors put on a recording of All You Fascists last semester. It’s an upbeat folk anthem written at the height of the second world war that connects the forces of oppression abroad with those, like Jim Crow, that festered...

By Julia Carrie Wong