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October 08, 2011
The Free Voice of Labor
Documentary streaming on-line here
"The Free Voice of Labor: The Jewish Anarchists" traces the history of a Yiddish anarchist newspaper (Fraye Arbeter Shtime - The Free Voice of Labor) publishing its final issue after 87 years. Narrated by anarchist historian Paul Avrich, the story is mostly told by the newspaper's now elderly, but decidedly unbowed staff. It's the story of one of the largest radical movements among Jewish immigrant workers in the 19th and 20th centuries, the conditions that led them to band together, their fight to build trade unions, their huge differences with the communists, their attitudes towards violence, Yiddish culture, and their loyalty to one another. see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freie_Arbeiter_Stimme
Posted by cat at 04:55 PM
October 07, 2011
#OccupyBoston
The struggle for justice is what love looks like in public. -West with Nat'l Nurses United union.
#Occupy Boston is supported by the unions at UMass Boston, the MTA, the Mass Nurses Association, Jobs for Justice, the Boston Labor Council. UMass Boston students participated on the 5th and members of the FSU will march Monday.
Posted by cat at 04:49 AM