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"This machine kills fascists" is a message that American musician Woody Guthrie placed on his guitar in the mid-1940s, starting in 1943. [ 1 ] The idea originated from a sticker that American machinists affixed to metalworking lathes and drill presses to support the war effort.
[127] [128] The Woody Guthrie Coalition commissioned a local Creek Indian sculptor to cast a full-body bronze statue of Guthrie and his guitar, complete with the guitar's well-known message reading, "This machine kills fascists". [129]
[3] [4] For the festival's founding, the Woody Guthrie Coalition commissioned a local Creek Indian sculptor to cast a full-body bronze statue of Guthrie and his guitar, complete with the guitar's well-known inscription: "This machine kills fascists". [4]
The use of “This Land Is Your Land,” by Woody Guthrie — a song composed as a rejoinder to the saccharine patriotism of Irving Berlin’s “God Bless America” — was a curious choice. After all, it came from the mind of a man who railed against injustice and famously wrote upon his guitar: “This machine kills fascists.”
Woody Guthrie is best known as an American singer-songwriter and folk musician whose musical legacy includes hundreds of political, traditional and children's songs, ballads and improvised works. He frequently performed with the slogan This Machine Kills Fascists displayed on his guitar.
American singer-songwriter and anti-fascist Woody Guthrie and his guitar labelled "This machine kills fascists" Anti-fascist Italian expatriates in the United States founded the Mazzini Society in Northampton, Massachusetts in September 1939 to work toward ending Fascist rule in Italy. As political refugees from Mussolini's regime, they ...
Woody Guthrie in 1943 with guitar labeled "This machine kills fascists" "Mermaid's Avenue" is a song written by American folk singer Woody Guthrie. In 1943, Guthrie moved his family to 3520 Mermaid Avenue, Coney Island, New York. The song is named after this street.
Trump announced construction plans Monday for a statue of Woody Guthrie — even though the late folk music icon wrote a seething song decades ago about his dad’s allegedly racist business ...