Western Massachusetts Jobs With Justice presents
Voices of Working People’s History a program of dramatic readings and lots of songs, with emphasis on Western Mass. voices, telling the origin story of May Day as International Workers’ Day in Chicago with an inspiring introduction to US labor history up to present-day voices of workers rising up ~ inspired by Howard Zinn ~
Friday, May 4, 2018 7:00-9:00pm {doors open 6:30} Holyoke Heritage State Park Visitors Center 221 Appleton St, Holyoke
Space is limited! Reserve seats in advance at voices-of-working-peoples-history-2018.
The Voices of: W.E.B. Du Bois Springfield African American Plaintiffs Knights of Labor {Octagon Lounge Incident} Black Convict Laborer Bayard Rustin Peter McGuire Cesar Chavez Albert Parsons Sterling Radiator Striker Dyer Lum Jobs With Justice Founders August Spies Teachers, Nurses, Others in the Holyoke Transcript Reporter Current Struggles Edward Bellamy Tom Mooney Readers & Performers:
Industrial Workers of the World Ben Grosscup Big Bill Haywood Bob Williams Lucy Parsons Charlie Lotspeich Eugene Debs Chris Rohmann Mother Jones Ginetta Candelario Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Inari Barrett Emma Goldman Irene Thornton Luisa Capetillo Jarice Hanson Ludlow Mills Striker Lynn Waldron Lawrence Mass. Strikers Orlando Isaza The Raging Grannies Blair Mountain Miner Reynolds Winslow Frances Perkins Robyn Sutton-Fernández Anna Sullivan Tom Neilson Paul Robeson Director: Irene Thornton George Markham Musical Director: Tom Neilson
Dedicated to our brothers and sisters whom we lost since last May Day: Isaac Ben-Ezra, Jafet Robles, John William Bennett, Michael Lindberg, Peter Kocot, Roberta Mulcahy SSJ, Ruth Hooke, Sarah Kemble.
Donate to Jobs With Justice in honor of May Day: Donations are tax deductible and used in your region of Mass. Donate at support-massachusetts-jobs-with-justice or send a check to CLEAR, 375 Centre St., Boston MA 02130. union & community labor donated