There are literally dozens of ways to be involved right now: fundraising events are being planned, events and actions surrounding the new memorial are being developed, and we’re constantly brainstorming new and ingenious ways to get the word out.
The Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition has launched a national campaign to build the grand permanent public art memorial to the victims and legacy of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire at the site of 1911 fire in Greenwich Village, NYC. Renowned artist Janet Zweig was selected from an open call to design the memorial by a committee with representatives from Workers United, NYU, FDNY, Kheel Center, Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, Community Board 2, family members of the victims, historians, and community members.
WHY?
To honor the memory of those who died from the fire;
To affirm the dignity of all workers;
To value immigrants and women as workers in building our society;
To remember that this tragedy resulted in greater worker safety protections, strengthened the union movement, and stirred social justice advances;
To inspire future generations of activists.
This memorial will belong to all of us! Its success depends on the participation of everyone in our diverse community who is committed to remembering the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire and continuing the fight to improve our world.
Become Involved!
If you’re in the NYC area, plan to come to the next open meeting.
Open Coalition Meeting
November date and place tba
6:00 – 7:30pm
Consider making a donation to support our work
AND BECOME A PART OF THIS HISTORIC ENDEAVOR!
The poem for the TRIANGLE FIRE Tragedy is so beautiful and touching. I greive for the lost souls and pray that they rest in peace. We will never forget. God bless all the dear souls of the Triangle factory, for I love them all. D. Taylor-Jackson, Tehachapi, CA
My great grandfather was a fire chief during this fire, and we have a picture of him and the company. He was the fire chief for the Bronx at the time. Let me know if you want the photos.
B”H
I think a fitting memorial would be a giant granite Tzeddakah Box where people can contribute money to help agencies who aid immigrants.
BTW: Why are you having the meeting on Shabbat? So many Jews and Jewish groups can’t be there that day! Please plan future meetings on Sunday!!
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beautiful!
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
New York City, March 25, 1911
By Diana Lischer-Goodband
Copyright 1998
A drab coat of New York night
hems in the wanton light.
Singers clack like laying hens,
their bobbins bob, their needles mend.
The bell buttons down the day,
keys jangle past the time to stay.
A call rings through, a fire brews;
smoke drifts along the seam of gray.
Maggie cries: “The doors are locked”!
She strangles in thin air.
The swelter stalks in heavy knots,
and snakes along the pin-lit stair.
Young women falling from the sky
Aglow in blackened rain;
with flapping skirts and hose they fly
in raven screams of flame.
Mere spider-nets, the men hand-hold.
They do not know the laws
of the physics of objects bowled
along a sheet of gauze.
The three entwine as lovers,
shoot like arrows through the silk.
The cough of shredded flowers
they spill like mother’s milk.
The earth resounds with every crash,
such beauty have they broke.
The idol of the hourglass
baptized in soot and smoke.
Factory girls with shoveled hearts,
track the company’s unholy slaughter;
a burial fit for cast-off parts:
the grave of the unknown daughter.