Chalk for the Triangle Workers

Each year since 2004, on the anniversary of the infamous blaze, volunteers fan out across the city to inscribe in chalk the names and ages of the Triangle dead in front of their former homes.

If you’re interested in participating this year, sign up here, and read the following note from Chalk and Coalition founder Ruth Sergel:

Dear Beloved Community –

In 1911 the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire took the lives of 146 young workers, most of them immigrant women and girls. Please join CHALK in standing for the Triangle workers by inscribing their names and ages in front of their former homes, making their lives visible across our city.

Starting this year CHALK will be run by the venerable Tenement Museum. I’m thrilled an institution so fiercely committed to the layered history of our city will lead Chalk into the future. If you want to feel hopeful about the world, give them a visit down on Orchard Street.

Sign up for CHALK 2025 here: bit.ly/Chalk2025

Kat Lloyd is leading the CHALK team at Tenement. This is their first year, so if you hit a glitch or have an idea – – she wants to hear from you!  Contact Kat: chalk@tenement.org

If you’ve chalked before, you’re already skilled at claiming public space to demand justice – that’s a great tool to have! I’ve listed some events and resources below that might be of interest. Remember: the false powers wouldn’t be acting so crazy if they weren’t already losing. These regimes come on strong, but they are brittle and they always fall. Always. Our diverse, equitable and inclusive future is coming.

Thank you for refusing to accept injustice one hundred years ago or today and for building our strong and resilient community.

See you in the streets!
– Ruth