Ron Briley spoke about Woody Guthrie’s column for the “People’s Daily World” on a panel titled “Woody Guthrie in Los Angeles: A Musical/Political Evolution” at the conference “This Great and Crowded City: Woody Guthrie’s Los Angeles,” held at the University of Southern California on April 14, 2012, in celebration of the centennial of Woody Guthrie’s birth. Briley is a history teacher and assistant headmaster at Sandia Prepatory School in Albuquerque, N.M. He is working on a book about Guthrie’s politics.