[Uwhistory] Bridges Labor Center Event: IWW and Spokane Free Speech Fight

[Lori Anthony]

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Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:00:17 -0800
From: Bridges Center for Labor Studies <pcls at u.washington.edu>
To: Lori Anthony - History <anthonyl at u.washington.edu>
Subject: Event for UW History list




Thursday, January 14
Wanted: Men to Fill the Jails of Spokane
Fighting for Free Speech with the Hobo Agitators of the Industrial Workers
of the World, with editor John Duda

University Bookstore
4326 University Way NE, Seattle
3:30pm-5:00pm

Mass civil disobedience, train-hopping militants, insurrectionist poets,
radical marching bands, and a victory for a precarious proletariat?in 1909!

Published to coincide with the 100th Anniversary of the Spokane Free Speech
Fight, which began in November of 1909, "Wanted: Men to Fill the Jails of
Spokane!" tells the story of one of the first of the Industrial Workers of
the World's famous "free speech fights." Through newspaper articles,
dispatches from the scene of the fight, and personal recollections, the
voices of the men (and women!) who filled the prisons of Spokane, Washington
in the name of free speech and the One Big Union are brought back into
print. A hundred years later, the courage and creativity of these Wobbly
free-speech fighters, laughing in the face of law and order to defy an
unjust system and even less fair working conditions, could not be more
relevant.

Includes articles, letters, updates, and essays by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn,
Agnes Thecla Fair, Richard Brazier, J. H. Walsh, and other Wobbly free
speech activists, direct from the pages of The Industrial Worker, The
International Socialist Review, The Workingman's Paper, and more!

About the editor: John Duda is a founding member of Red Emma's Bookstore
Coffeehouse, a Baltimore worker's collective affiliated with the Industrial
Workers of the World, and an activist-scholar of social movements and
self-organization.

Sponsored by the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies and the Pacific
Northwest Labor History Association. For more information, call the Bridges
Center at (206) 543-7946, e-mail pcls at u.washington.edu, or visit
http://depts.washington.edu/pcls

-- 
Andrew Hedden
Program Coordinator
Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies
University of Washington
(206) 543-7946
http://depts.washington.edu/pcls/