Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition

Triangle Coalition – Open Monthly Meeting

streetpictures — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:24:31 +0000

- What to know what’s already in the works for the March 2011 Centennial?
- Creating your own event but want to find a way to connect with the larger community?

Join Us!

Every third Thursday the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition hosts an open meeting. Stop by and get linked in.

All are welcome!

Teaching about the Triangle Fire this Fall??

admin — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 21:12:08 +0000

You are invited! Come for wine and cheese & to dialogue with other professors who are engaging the Centennial of The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire in their courses this year. This informal open forum will be held:

Thursday, September 16 at 6:30 pm
Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts
65 West 11th Street,
Wollman Hall
(fifth floor)

RSVP to Cecilia Rubino at RubinoC@newschool.edu

Triangle Memorial – Open Meeting

admin — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 09:39:12 +0000

Please join us for an open meeting on the creation of a Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Memorial

We will share information on the artist selection process that is already in the works and ask for your input:

What is important to you in a Triangle Shirtwaist Fire memorial?
What kinds of events or educational activities would you like to create around the memorial?
What are examples of other public memorials that you find compelling?
Fundraising – let’s make this memorial happen!

Join us!
Monday, August 23
6:30 pm
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute
25 West 43rd Street, 17th Floor, NYC

Please RSVP: info@rememberthetrianglefire.org

Thank You to the Calandra Institute for being our host for this event!

Teaching the Triangle Fire

streetpictures — Sun, 23 May 2010 17:12:03 +0000

Teaching the Triangle Fire: 3rd Annual Education & Labor Collaborative Forum

The Triangle Factory fire was the largest workplace disaster in the US until the 9/11 tragedy. The outrage over the senseless deaths of the young workers sparked social protests that lead to stronger labor legislation, humane workplace regulations, and ultimately New Deal reform. As the 100-year anniversary of the tragedy approaches, efforts to commemorate the fire and what that moment in history represents for all of us are being undertaken across the nation.

Participants of the forum will:

* Learn from expert scholars in the field and master teachers.
* Engage in hands-on workshops focused on primary resources, family histories, and arts-based pedagogies.
* Participate in walking history tours of Lower Manhattan.
* Engage in workshops on leadership and organizing for change.
* Earn professional development credits

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Registration and Fees
Program Fee: $100.00 (Applies only to participants seeking teacher professional development credits.)
Housing: Newly built dorm rooms on Adelphi University’s Garden City campus will be available to participants for $50.00 per person.
Credentialing: Participants may earn 1 continuing education credit and/or 15 hours of professional development credits.
For registration materials please contact Professor Rob Linné at linne@adelphi.edu.

Remembering the Triangle Fire of 1911

streetpictures — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:50:01 +0000

Chalk

streetpictures — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 12:08:23 +0000

Each year on the March 25 anniversary of the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, volunteers fan out across the city to inscribe in chalk the names and ages of the victims in front of their former homes. A flier is posted with more information on the fire and how it galvanized the fight for social justice for all.

You can search a map of those who perished in the fire or read more about Chalk in the New York Times.

If you would like to participate in Chalk 2011 for the centennial of the fire send me an email:

ruth (at) streetpictures (dot) org

Workers United – Official Commemoration

streetpictures — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 15:38:27 +0000

Please stand with Workers United, the folks who have been hosting the official commemoration for decades. The ceremony will take place at the Brown Building which housed the Triangle Waist Company on the 8, 9 & 10th floors.

Triangle Shirtwaist Fire – Panel Discussion on 100th Commemoration

streetpictures — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 13:56:49 +0000

Please join panelists Ruth Sergel (Street Pictures, Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition), Annelise Orleck (Dartmouth College), Ellen Todd (George Mason University), Jennifer Guglielmo (Smith College) and author David Von Dehle for a look back at The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire on the eve of the 100th anniversary of the tragedy.

Sweatshop Poet Tribute

streetpictures — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 20:30:17 +0000

The Sweatshop Poets Literary Tribute will feature musical presentations by performers Deborah Strauss and Jeff Warschauer, readings in Yiddish and English and a short commentary on the radicalism of the sweatshop writers as reflected by the vibrant labor movement that was coming into its own on the Lower East Side at the turn of the last century. Nowhere is the blazing passion of romantic revolutionary idealism expressed so directly and with such anger as in their work. The Sweatshop Poets Literary Tribute is co-sponsored by the Eldridge Street Project and the National Yiddish Book Center (NYBC), cultural organization intimately involved in the renewal of Yiddish live and culture. In recognizing these poets, the Eldridge Street Project and the NYBC seek to introduce these writers to a contemporary audience as well as the themes of their work which continue to resonate today.

Conference: Legacy of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

streetpictures — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 20:22:28 +0000

Occurring on the centennial of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, the conference seeks to assess the historical significance of the Fire (and the ensuing response to the tragedy) with a particular interest in examining its present day legacy, including: the contemporary globalized sweatshop, the character and function of the contemporary sweatshops in the U.S., conditions of immigrant labor today in the U.S., working conditions for low-wage women workers, contemporary labor law violations and exclusions, labor standards and the state, etc.