About the Tribute
Thursday, November 11, 8 pm
@ 21 Grand
(449B 23rd st, Oakland)
A tribute to the Haymarket Martyrs
And benefit for the Kate Sharpley Library
Featuring the incomparable Anarchist Historian
Barry Pateman
And music by the
Devin Hoff Platform:
jewlia eisenberg voice maya dunietz accordion dina maccabeeviolin and viola darren johnston trumpet devin hoff bass
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About the Haymarket Martyrs

"The story of the Haymarket Martyrs, and their monument in Forest Home Cemetery, begins at a convention of the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions in 1884. The Federation (the predecessor to the American Federation of Labor) called for a great movement to win the 8-hour workday, which would climax on May 1, 1886.
The plan was to spend two years urging all American employers to adopt a standard 8-hour day"...(continued) from the Illinois Labor History Society.

About the Kate Sharpley Library

The Kate Sharpley Library is dedicated to researching and restoring the history of the anarchist movement and regularly publishes information on lost areas of anarchist history. It was named in honour of Kate Sharpley, a First World War anarchist and anti-war activist — one of the countless 'unknown' members of the movement so often ignored by 'official historians' of anarchism. 

About the Radical Event Series

Two musicians avoid rubber bullets at an anti-war demonstration and ask questions.  Why does the left always eat itself?  Will revolution come to our shores?  Why do we feel alienated and crabby at a perfectly good demonstration? To build community and have a good time, we decide to make a traveling movie house (in this case, no movie) for the red and the black.  This is a meeting place for the new left and the whatís left, anarcho-syndicalists and leafy Greens, social democrats and democratic socialists.   See a previous Radical FILM Series Event 

Muscians:  Jewlia Eisenberg and Devin Hoff