Come celebrate the boldest moment in workers’ history in the Greater St. Louis area, The General Strike of 1877, when everyday people ran our cities and workplaces on their own!
For more information on the General Strike of 1877, see Wikipedia:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1877_Saint_Louis_general_strike
or this excerpt from Howard Zinn’s People’s History of the United States: http://libcom.org/history/1877-the-great-railroad-strike
Rosemary Feurer: http://www3.niu.edu/history/facultyp.html#FEURER
David Rovics: http://www.davidrovics.com/
Nationally known speakers, Jeremy Brecher (author of Strike!) and Rosemary Feurer (NIU Professor and author of Radical Unionism in the Midwest 1900-1950), will be speaking at this commemoration, as well as musical performances by the world famous, David Rovics and local musician, Wayne Schell.
Light refreshments will also be provided.
Jeremy Brecher:
http://www.southendpress.org/authors/70Rosemary Feurer: http://www3.niu.edu/history/facultyp.html#FEURER
David Rovics: http://www.davidrovics.com/
This event has been organized by the Greater St. Louis United Front. If you have any questions, or are interested in participating in the event, please email GSLUF at:
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If you would like to have a table or a speaker at this event, please, contact us at [email protected]. Tabling will require each organization to donate $10. Organizations seeking to speak at this event will need to pay $25; each organization will be allotted five minutes to speak at the microphone, at the event.
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