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“TRIANGLE: Scenes from a Prosecution”

“This is not the first time when girls have been burned alive in this city. Every week, I learn of the untimely death of one of my sister workers. Every year, thousands of us are maimed. The lives of men and women are cheap, while property is sacred.”

This week’s Labor Heritage Power Hour radio show begins with these angry and frustrated words spoken by labor organizer and feminist Rose Schneiderman, from the new play “TRIANGLE: Scenes from a Prosecution”. Show co-hosts Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant talk with the writer, producer and director of the play, which opened last weekend and continues this weekend and next (click here for details). They also talk about the long-awaited Triangle Fire Memorial to the victims and legacy of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, which was unveiled and dedicated last week at the site of the historic fire in New York City. Plus, music and poetry by Bev Grant, Joe Glazer and John O’Connor. Listen and share!

2023 UAW Strike Anthem

Stand Up (Remix) (Official Music Video)

The SAG Strike Protest Song

“Art is not a mirror held up to reality. but a hammer with which to shape it.” ― Bertolt Brecht

Quoted by “TRIANGLE: Scenes from a Prosecution” director Lauren Winnenberg on today’s Labor Heritage Power Hour radio show.  

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EXHIBIT: Memory in Cloth - Safety and Solidarity for New York City Garment Workers

Oct 9 – Nov 17, 2023

Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square S, New York, NY 10012, USA (map)

EXHIBIT: Collective Ribbon: The Interwoven Voices of the Triangle Fire Memorial

Thu, October 19, 10am – 6pm

Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, New York University, 24 West 12th Street, NYC (map)

EXHIBIT: "We Are One: Honoring Immigrant Garment Workers"

Thu, October 19, 11am – 4pm

The Puffin Gallery 20 Puffin Way Teaneck, NJ 07666 (map)

FILM: THE SPIRIT OF ’45

Fri, October 20, 7:30pm – 9:30pm

Dryden Theatre, 900 East Ave, Rochester, NY 14607, USA (map)

2023 Rochester Labor Film Series (Info/tickets)

PLAY: "Triangle: Scenes from a Prosecution"

Fri, October 20, 8pm – 11pm, Sat 10/21 3 & 8p; Sun 10/22 6p

Theatre 68 @ MCS Theatre 357 W. 36th St Suite #202 New York , NY 10018 (map)

$25; Tickets here

Check out this week's Labor History Today podcast, Weapons of the Boss. In 1953 the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) established a set of ten guiding principles at its’ tenth biennial convention in San Francisco. This manifesto represents a fascinating historical document, a snapshot in time but also a roadmap, a statement of aspiration calling upon union members to look beyond internal conflicts derived from factionalism, prejudice, even tradition. 

Oct 20, 1983

Death of Merle Travis, songwriter and performer who wrote "Sixteen Tons" & "Dark as a Dungeon"



Oct 22, 1934

Bank robber Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd is killed by FBI agents near East Liverpool, Ohio. He was a hero to the people of Oklahoma who saw him as a "Sagebrush Robin Hood," stealing from banks and sharing some of the proceeds with the poor

Oct 24, 1892

Strike of Teamsters, Scalesmen and Packers in New Orleans. City trade is paralyzed; in two weeks the walkout becomes a general strike, involving more than 20,000 whites and blacks together, in support of demands for union recognition and a 10-hour work day

Triangle Fire Dedication Ceremony streams live today (10/11)

Leadville Irish Miners’ Memorial to be unveiled Saturday (9/13)

Springfield (OR) Labor Mural dedication (9/8)

The ’63 March, 60 years later

Solidarity and song at the UALE/LHF Southern Women’s School (8/10)

Labor Heritage Power Hour: We Will Never Stop (8/4)

In DC, “Barbie” inside, SAG-AFTRA outside (7/26)

Labor Heritage Power Hour launches today (7/20)

"They stand on the wrong side of history” (7/19)