Today’s Labor Quote: Woody Guthrie

7/12/2019

The crops are all in and the peaches are rott'ning,
The oranges piled in their creosote dumps;
They're flying 'em back to the Mexican border
To pay all their money to wade back again

From his song “Deportee,” in honor of the immigrants being targeted this weekend by the Trump Administration. Woody was born in Okemah, Oklahoma on July 14, 1912. “Deportee,” sung here by Joan Baez…