Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition

Workers Defense League 87th Anniversary Event
2023-06-08 18:00 - 18:45 (America/New_York)
The Workers Defense League (WDL) honors Tom Conway, President of the United Steelworkers, AFL-CIO, at its annual Awards event. WDL will present the David L. Clendenin Award for Distinguished Service to Labor’s Rights to President Conway.

WDL will also honor two outstanding New York union leaders: Jose Maldonado, President, UNITE HERE Local 100, AFL-CIO, and Gloria Middleton, President, CWA Local 1180, AFL-CIO.

The Awards event will take place online, Thursday, June 8, 2023 at 6:00 p.m.

Since 1936, the Workers Defense League has championed the union cause and assisted workers in need. Every year WDL counsels and assists thousands of individual workers with unemployment insurance claims and other rights.

Tickets and more information at www.workersdefenseleague.org

2023 Clara Lemlich Awards for Social Activism
2023-05-19 16:00 - 18:00 | The Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Ave at 103rd St.,, New York, 10029
Clara Lemlich Awards for Social Activism

May 19, 20234:00 PM

The Museum of the City of New York1220 Fifth Ave at 103rd St.New York, NY

The Clara Lemlich Awards for Social Activism celebrate the lives of incredible women whose many decades of brilliant activism have made real and lasting change in the world.

The Lemlich Awards will be held in person this year at the Museum of the City of New York. It will also be live streamed. RSVP to info@LaborArts.org if you will attend in person; find the link for virtual participation here.

This year, the Lemlich Awards honor: Black and Latino cultural correspondent Angela Fontanez, quality of life activist Olive Freud, civil rights and UFT organizer Velma Hill, Chinatown union leader Alice Ip, Prison reform advocate Barbara Martinsons and Holocaust educator Anita Weisbord.

More information at www.laborarts.org

Hillman Prizes for Journalism
2023-05-09 18:00 - 21:00
Awards Presentation & Reception: Honoring Excellence in Journalism in Service of the Common Good

Since 1950, the Sidney Hillman Foundation has honored journalists, writers and public figures that pursue investigative journalism and public policy in service of the common good. Sidney Hillman was the founding president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, a predecessor union of Workers United, SEIU. Sidney Hillman, an architect of the New Deal, fought to build a vibrant union movement extending beyond the shop floor to all aspects of working people’s lives.

The 2023 Awards Presentation and Reception will be an in-person event held at the Times Center in New York City.

More information here.

The Originals: A Short Documentary on the Original Penn South Cooperators
2023-05-06 13:00 - 15:00
The Originals: a short documentary by award-winning filmmaker Ruth Sergel in collaboration with the Penn South Archive Project.

LOCATION:Church of the Holy Apostles 296 9th Avenue New York, NY 10001

Penn South, officially known as Mutual Redevelopment Houses, Inc., is an affordable cooperative housing community located in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, in the heart of New York City.

Join us for an afternoon of celebration of the unique history of Penn South. “The Originals,” a short documentary based on oral histories recorded by cooperators over the past year, will have its premiere screening on Saturday, May 6, 2023, at 1 pm.

In 1962, the ILGWU (International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union) welcomed the first cooperators to Penn South, an affordable-housing coop in the middle of New York City. During the past 60 years, the Originals (original cooperators) have persevered through creativity and struggle in this bold experiment for thousands of people that still exists to this day. Over the past year, current cooperators at the Penn South Archive Project recorded the stories of the Originals to create a collective record of their experience. “The Originals” is a short documentary based on these conversations.

“A Teenager’s Guide to Penn South,” a new short film by teenagers and lifelong cooperators Silvie Bird, Olive Eng, and Fiona Shuldiner, will also be screened.

Live music (performers to be announced).

The event is sponsored by the Penn South Archive Project, organized by the Education Committee of Penn South Social Services.

Have questions? Contact archiveproject@psss.org

The film will be open captioned. The venue is wheelchair accessible. Masks warmly encouraged.

This event is free. General admission. For more information please visit here.

NYC Labor Chorus: Concert for Peace and Justice
2023-04-29 16:00 - 18:00
Join the New York City Labor Chorus in Their Return to In-Person Performance

Honoring Paul Robeson

Saturday, April 29th, 4:00 PM

Advent Lutheran Church2504 Broadway at 93rd StreetNew York, NY

Tickets $25 General Admission

More information at www.nyclc.org

Workers Memorial Day Commemoration
2023-04-28 12:00 - 13:00 | Foley Square, Lafayette St. and Duane St., New York, New York, 10007
Join the New York City Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO, and the New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health (NYCOSH) for the annual Workers’ Memorial Day event to honor those who have died or suffered injuries or illnesses while on the job, to recognize the sacrifices made by all essential workers on the front lines, and to renew the fight for strong safety and health protections.

On April 28, the labor movement will observe Workers’ Memorial Day to remember workers killed or injured on the job & to renew the fight for strong safety & health protections.

Friday, April 28 at 12 PMFoley SquareLafayette St. and Duane St.NYC 10007

This event is accessible.

More information at www.nycclc.org

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Annual Award Reception and Scholarship Fundraiser
2023-03-30 18:00 - 20:00
The Directors and Officers of the TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST FACTORY FIRE MEMORIAL Cordially invite you to attend their Eighteenth Annual Award Reception and Scholarship Fundraiser.

March 30, 20236pm – 8pm

RWDSU Union Hall370 Seventh Ave, 5th FloorNew York, NY 10001(steps away from Penn Station)

Honorees

JANELLA T. HINDSSecretary-Treasurer, NYC Central Labor Council

CHARLENE OBERNAUERExecutive Director, NYCOSH

ELIZABETH WEINERon Behalf of Heriberto “Ed” Vargas

ALEXANDRA BRYERTriangle Scholarship Recipient

More information at www.trianglememorial.org

Free Virtual Film Screenings in Honor of Women's History Month
2023-03-24 00:00 - 2023-03-31 23:59
Workers Unite Film Festival Presents

Free Virtual On-Demand Screenings

March 24th-31st

in Honor of Women’s History Month

Films

Anchor Point – Women have been a force in wildland firefighting since 1942. Still, they remain outnumbered 10-to-1 on the fire lines and do double-duty battling both the infernos that scorch public lands and the smoldering embers of discrimination, misogyny and sexual harassment that continue to suppress their voices. (89 min, 2021)

Berta Didn’t Die, She Multiplied! – Berta Cáceres’ death has not silenced the many land defenders fighting for justice, Indigenous Sovereignty, and the planet. (29 min, 2017, Honduras)

Spread Thin – The legal fight against pregnancy discrimination has left one woman, a former Google employee, spread thin. (19m, 2022)

Aparecides – A young lounge singer reacts to popular uprising in Chile. (16m, 2022, Chile, Narrative)

Long Haulers – A documentary that gives agency, voice, and perspective into the world of a female trucker in the U.S. (14m, 2020)

La Lucha Sigue – In Honduras, the Lenca and Garífuna land defenders are not backing down, including the daughter of activist Berta Cáceres. (66m, 2021, Honduras)

Watch the films at www.workersunitefilmfestival.org

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Walking Tour
2023-03-24 00:00 - 2023-03-31 23:59
Presented by People’s Heritage Tours

Dr. Daniel Katz — ILGWU historian — leads a walking tour beginning at Cooper Union at Astor Place, proceeding to the NYU Brown building on Washington Place, the site of the Triangle fire, and up to Union Square, where the social justice legacy of the fire continued for a century. A portion of every ticket sold will go toward building the Triangle Fire memorial now under construction at the site of the fire.

Duration: 2 Hours

Upcoming Tour Dates:

Friday March 24, 1:30 pm (immediately following the Official Commemoration of the anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in Greenwich Village)Saturday March 25, 1 pmSunday March 26, 1 pmTuesday March 28, 1 pmWednesday March 29, 1 pmFriday March 31, 1 pm

For more information, and to book a tour, visit www.phtoursnyc.com

Teaching Literacy with theTriangle Fire Memorial
2023-03-23 16:00 - 17:00
Nassau Reading Council 2023 Workshops

Teaching Literacy with theTriangle Fire Memorial

A Curriculum and Practice Discussion

March 23, 2023, 4-5pm

We will share goals, content, classroom practice,and a selection of resources at multiple levels.

Andi Sosin, Nassau Reading CouncilKimberly Schiller, Huntington School District

Free and Convenient Online After School Workshop

CTLE credits available Zoom Link https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87576857388Meeting ID: 875 7685 7388

Virtual Lecture: Art, the NYC Immigrant Experience, and the Triangle Fire
2023-03-23 11:00 - 12:00
ASHCAN ART AND THE TRIANGLE FIRE OF 1911

An original virtual lecture by Debbie Wells. It’s the personal story of an immigrant who lost her life at the 1911 Triangle Fire combined with the art of that era.

March 23, 11am-12pm (Can’t make the date? Replays are sent automatically so you can enjoy the video on your own schedule!)Cost: $40

In honor of the anniversary of the historic Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of 1911 (March 25), and Women’s History Month, this lecture explores the NYC immigrant experience from many angles. First, the Ashcan School of Art showcased everyday life in NYC, especially the Lower East Side. The art set the tone as artists depicted the bustling streets of a combination of grittiness and beauty. What makes this lecture unique is the story of Annie Nicholas, an ancestor of Debbie’s family, who died at age 18 in the Triangle fire. Learning about her life and experience that fateful day adds a fascinating understanding of that time in history.

For more information and to register: www.eventbrite.com/e/527856562187

The Two Roses: Rose Schneiderman andThe Triangle Fire
2023-03-16 11:30 - 13:00
New Jersey City UniversityCenter for the Arts

Presents

The Two Roses: Rose Schneiderman and The Triangle Fire

A Reading by and Conversation with Annie Schneiderman Valliere

Hosted by Edvige Giunta and Jennifer Marchan

Thursday, March 16, 2023, at 11:30 am

For more information and Zoom link visit www.njcu.edu

Annie Schneiderman Valliere, born in Washington, D.C., is a Maine-based retired social worker and a great-niece of Rose Schneiderman. She has spent more than a decade researching and writing a biography of Rose. Annie was awarded the Eichleberger-Linzer Grant from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library in Hyde Park, New York. She has traveled from Maine to Washington—including a visit to the Roosevelt House in New York—to deliver captivating, multi-media talks on Rose and the Triangle Fire, including presentations about Rose at the conference “Frances Perkins and Progressive and New Deal Eras” in 2009 at the University of Southern Maine and at the 2019 Maine Suffrage Centennial. In 2021, she presented Rose and the Triangle Fire, at a meeting of Local One of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE). In 2022, she spoke at Vassar College along with descendants of Harriet Stanton Blatch and Inez Milholland Boissevaine, at a dedication of a historical marker commemorating the “Suffrage in the cemetery” rally in 1908, as a part of the National Votes for Women Trail. She has written articles on Schneiderman, the Uprising of the 20,000, and the Triangle fire for the Oxford Encyclopedia of American Business, Labor, and Economic History (2013). In 2015, she published the article “Rose Schneiderman” on her great-aunt’s suffrage activism for the Turning Point Suffragist Memorial Association.

Book Talk: Annie Rachele Lanzillotto reads from Whaddyacall the Wind? (Bordighera Press, 2022) at the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute
2023-03-13 18:00 - 20:00
Writer and performance artist Annie Lanzillotto presents her latest publication, in which she invites readers to join her on a poetic journey to learn what it is to feel “like an errant puzzle piece … never to be found, never to be put into place.” In this written adventure Lanzillotto connects with the gay community in Italy, hangs out with living cousins in the cemetery of her ancestral town Acquaviva delle Fonti, argues with the Commedia dell’arte character Pulcinella, concocts a tale of a Madonna painting’s sojourn to Italy, and asks: “What position do you want to be in for l’eternità?”

REGISTER in advance to attend in person by calling 212-642-2094. Discussion led by Stanislao Pugliese, Hofstra University.

John D Calandra Italian American Institute25 West 43rd Street, 17th FloorNew York, NY 10036

Event is FREE but registration is required for all events in order to follow current CUNY COVID guidelines. Proof of vaccination and ID are required upon entry. Masks are encouraged but not required.

More information at www.calandrainstitute.org

March with the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition in the 2023 St. Pat's For All Parade
2023-03-05 12:00 - 15:00
Join the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition as we march in the St. Pat’s for All Parade. Sunnyside/Woodside, Queens, NY. Parade Route Starts at 43rd and Skillman Ave. RSVP at info@rememberthetrianglefire.org

St. Pat's for All Benefit at New York Irish Center
2023-01-15 17:00 - 20:00 | New York Irish Center, 1040 Jackson Ave # 3, Queens, New York, 11101
Cocktail reception in support of St. Pat’s for All, featuring live music and Irish step dancing, at the New York Irish Center

Tickets and more information at www.eventbrite.com

Synagogues of the Lower East Side Walking Tour
2022-12-18 11:00 - 12:00 | Museum at Eldridge Street, 12 Eldridge Street, New York, New York, 10002, United States
Stroll through the neighborhood’s 100-year-old history!

One hundred years ago, there were as many as 500 synagogues dotting the streets of the Lower East Side. Only a few, like the Museum’s landmark building and the Bialystocker Synagogue, still exist in their original form; most are distant memories or have been altered beyond recognition. Some even serve completely different functions – as Buddhist temples or private homes!

Join historian Bradley Shaw to explore the evolution of the Lower East Side through the fate of its synagogues. You’ll learn about the ones still in existence, the ones that were lost, and the ones transformed to fit the needs of a changing neighborhood.

Museum at Eldridge Street Walking Tours are only available to small groups (20 people max). This tour is available to both individual ticket holders and families.

Tickets and more information at www.eldridgestreet.org

OPENING: Rise Up! The Art of Activism in the Lower East Side
2022-12-16 18:00 - 21:00 | City Lore, 56 East 1st St., New York, New York, 10003
Friday, December 16th6:00 – 9:00 pmCity Lore56 East First StreetNYC

Rise Up! The Art of Activism on the Lower East Side is an oral history-based place-marking project honoring sites of cultural and arts activism. Join us in celebrating neighbors, past and present, and raising a glass to the Lower East Side! See photos from the 1982 Garment Workers Strike in Chinatown. Enjoy refreshments and a parranda performance by Sonido Costeño!

More information at www.citylore.org

NY Labor History Association's Annual Labor Education Awards
2022-12-01 18:00 - 19:00
Each year since 1987, the New York Labor History Association has awarded the John Commerford Labor Education Award to two honorees for their contributions to workers’ empowerment.

The 2022 Awards will be held virtually on Thursday December 1, 2022, from 6-7 pm Eastern time, honoring the extraordinary activist scholars Dorothy Sue Cobble and Melvyn Dubofsky.Registration is required. The event is free, but donations are strongly recommended.

Please REGISTER and DONATE

Patrons contributing $250 or more will be listed in the program.

This event is a partnership between The New York Labor History Association, Labor Arts, and the Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archive at the NYU Special Collections.

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2022 COMMERFORD HONOREES

Dorothy Sue Cobble is an American historian, and a specialist in the study of work, social movements, and social policy. A distinguished professor emerita of history and labor studies at Rutgers University, she is the author of multiple prize-winning books, including Dishing It Out: Waitresses and Their Unions in the Twentieth Century (1991), The Other Women’s Movement: Workplace Justice and Social Rights in Modern America (2005), and The Sex of Class: Women Transforming American Labor (2007).Her most recent book, For the Many: American Feminists and the Global Fight for Democratic Equality, reveals the grit, courage, and wisdom of the women who led the fight for economic justice and social democracy in the United States and abroad. Her next book draws on the far-seeing ideas of labor thinkers of the past to help us reimagine a fairer, more inclusive America. Cobble grew up in a blue-collar family in Atlanta in the 1950s. She credits her passion for issues of justice and inequality to the fierce debates about civil and human rights that surrounded her in high school, to the sermons she heard in church, and to her father’s pioneering work on minimum-wage legislation in Georgia as a lobbyist for the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. The jobs she held while completing her education profoundly shaped her thinking about work and labor reform. She worked as a waitress, receptionist, file clerk, union ship-scaler and stevedore, and eventually as an editorial assistant at TV Guide Magazine before receiving a B.A. degree in American Studies, cum laude, from the University of California at Berkeley and a Ph.D. in History from Stanford University. After directing the City College of San Francisco Labor Studies Program from 1980 to 1986, Cobble moved to Rutgers, where she founded the Center for Women and Work and taught classes for college students, working adults, and trade unionists. Recent honors include an Honorary Doctorate of Social Science from Stockholm University in 2017, and election to the Society of American Historians in 2018.

Melvyn Dubofsky has been an activist scholar and pioneering labor historian since the 1960s, helping to advance the field of “new labor history,” which focuses on the experiences of workers and social movements rather than institutions. A distinguished professor emeritus of history at Binghamton University, he has written extensively about the role of politics and state action in the changing fortunes of the American labor movement, and he stresses the role culture and the development of capitalism play in the American labor movement.

At the Fernand Braudel Center at Binghamton his research has looked at how changing technology, such as automation, has driven worker activism. Dubofsky has taught and participated in collaborative projects with other scholars in England, Israel, Austria, the Netherlands, France, and the former Soviet Union.

He grew up in the middle of the last century in a Brooklyn far different from today, where most neighborhoods were drawn on ethnic lines, with distinctly mixed class compositions with working people, petty proprietors, and even professionals (doctors, dentists, and attorneys) living next door to each other. His high school in Bedford Stuyvesant (Brooklyn’s version of Harlem) was the borough’s most diverse school, with a substantial Black student body and a small white majority of mostly Jewish, Italian, and Irish teens. The impact of the Senator McCarthy fueled “red scare” was personal: his high school economics teacher and four of his first-year college teachers lost their jobs for refusing to name names during state or federal investigations. Those experiences led him, in graduate school, toward studying the history of working people, a field of study that did not exist in the 1950s.

Among his most notable books are When Workers Organize: New York City in the Progressive Era (1967), We Shall Be All: A History of the Industrial Workers of the World (1969), John L. Lewis: A Biography (1977, co-written with Warren Van Tine); The State and Labor in Modern America (1994); and Hard Work: The Making of a Labor Historian (2001). Currently, he is editing a two-volume history of American Economic, Business, and Labor History for Oxford University Press.

Songs to Leave You in Stitches: The Story of the ILGWU’s Musical "Pins & Needles"
2022-12-01 00:00 - 2022-12-23 23:59 | Sidney Cox Library of Music and Dance Cornell University, 220 Lincoln Hall, Ithaca, New York, 14853, United States
Sidney Cox Library of Music and Dance Cornell UniversityIthaca, NY

The International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union produced the hit musical Pins and Needles, which ran on Broadway from 1937-1940. For the topical skits spoofing current events, workers moved from their sewing machines on the factory floor to the theatrical stage. “Songs to Leave You in Stitches: The Story of the ILGWU’s Musical Pins & Needles” explores the history, social context, and music of this important labor musical.

“Songs to Leave You in Stitches” is the first of three “Fashioning Music” exhibits affiliated with Threads of History: Textiles at Cornell, a series of exhibits organized by Cornell University Library in honor of the acquisition of the library and archives of the former American Textile History Museum, whose mission had been to “tell America’s stories through textiles.” Highlighting materials from the former American Textile History Museum, existing items from Cornell’s collections, and original artwork, Threads of History honors the storytelling, history, and artistry of textiles and those who labor to create them.

The exhibit is free and open to the public at the Sidney Cox Library of Music and Dance, Cornell University, during regular Music Library hours.

Concert: Yale Strom’s “Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire” Cantata
2022-11-20 15:00 - 16:30 | Museum at Eldridge Street, 12 Eldridge Street, New York, New York, 10002, United States
November 20 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm

Museum at Eldridge Street12 Eldridge StreetNew York, NY 10002

Announcing the East Coast debut of Yale Strom’s moving cantata in honor of those lost in the Triangle Factory Fire of 1911.

Yale Strom composed the cantata “Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire” in 2011 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the tragic fire of March 25, 1911. The Triangle Waist Company factory occupied the top three floors of the ten-story Asch Building on the corner of Greene Street and Washington Place in Greenwich Village. The factory normally employed about five hundred workers, mostly young Italian and Jewish immigrant women and girls aged fourteen to twenty-three, who worked nine hours a day on weekdays plus seven hours on Saturdays, earning for their 52 hours of work between $7 and $12 a week.

The cantata, which includes English, Yiddish and Italian poetry, will take the listener from a normal workday, to when the fire began, to after the tragedy when 146 garment workers loss their lives. One hundred twenty-three women and girls and twenty-three men died from the fire, smoke inhalation, or falling or jumping from the building’s windows.

After the four-movement cantata, the quintet will perform klezmer and Italian folk melodies that would have been heard on the streets of New York City before The First World War.

For tickets and more information, visit www.eldridgestreet.org

Photo Credit: Museum at Eldridge Street, Mario Tama.

Pay Your Workers Rally
2022-10-29 11:00 - 12:00
Adidas Flagship 565 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, NYC

During the pandemic, brands stole millions in unpaid wages, benefits and severance from garment workers. Corporations exploited the pandemic to undermine labor rights and retaliate against unions and workers organizing. An international union coalition has been formed, led by unions in Cambodia, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka demanding that adidas meet with garment workers, pay them money stolen during the pandemic, and respect labor rights across the supply chain. The campaign has been progressing since our first international action in July. In August we had actions in 10 cities. Adidas has so far refused to meet with the garment worker unions, and now a global week of action has been called for October 24-30, demanding that adidas negotiate with the workers that make their apparel. So far we have actions planned in over 20 cities, including Jakarta, Dhaka, Berlin and Milan.

On October 29th at 11:00 am there will be an action at the Adidas flagship location at 565 Fifth Avenue. North America is a key market to Adidas; they are seeking to grow their market share and are vulnerable to US public opinion. We have an outsized leverage in pushing Adidas to meet with the workers.

More information at www.payyourworkers.org and www.adidas-steals.com

Library Exhibit Explores Fraught History of Textile Industry
2022-10-27 00:00 - 2023-09-01 23:59
Social Fabric: Land, Labor, and the World the Textile Industry Created

Cornell University LibraryIthaca, NY 14853

Social Fabric: Land, Labor, and World the Textile Industry Created tells the story of the communities affected by the textile and garment industries in the United States and around the world. Spanning nearly 400 years, it includes indigenous communities that lived along the river valleys in New England where those industries first arose, enslaved people and sharecroppers in the South that grew the cotton that fed the mills, women and immigrants that worked in the mills and factories who fought for worker’s rights through unions, incarcerated people that make clothing and textiles in American prisons, and the workers in the Global South that make much of what we use and wear today.

More information at www.blogs.cornell.edu/threadsofhistory

Harlem Mural Dedication
2022-10-20 18:00 - 21:00
Planet Harlem Mural Dedication

Thursday, October 20th, 2022 from 6-9pm

321 Malcom X Blvd New York, NY 10027

Free RSVP

Designed by renowned Harlem artist Paul Deo, this mural is already a popular tourist stop and neighborhood favorite in Harlem. In December of 2018, the mural was cited in New York Magazine’s 14th Annual “Reasons to Love New York” issue. Given how well known the mural is, and how it’s been so well received, it will continue to be an educational and cultural hub where educational tours and cultural tours utilize its portrayal of the great Harlemites.

Planet Harlem is Paul’s tribute to the black community; a vehicle for telling and sharing its stories and a potent and much needed tool in the quest for empowerment and well-being during these uncertain times. As this neighborhood continues to gentrify, it’s deeply important to Paul to engage its local residents in the collective effort to preserve its rich cultural heritage. Beyond this, he hopes that the demonstration of this process will serve as a beacon of hope for all who understand the power of activating a deeper sense of connection to our own heritage and creative legacy. Perhaps this is why Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. placed Planet Harlem as the last scene in his The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross – PBS documentary.

Paul Deo is a Harlem-based multimedia artist and muralist whose black Indian indigenous roots are strongly embedded in his work. Paul’s unique and often thought-provoking cultural lens encapsulates his murals which merge history, spirit, and technology to create sacred art spaces for communal dialogue. He engages and inspires communities through his work, bridging familiar subjects with the world of possibilities and inspiration.

Free RSVP

Celebrating Our Roots: Panel Discussion Honoring the 40th Anniversary of the 1982 Chinatown Garment Workers' Strike
2022-10-19 18:00 - 19:30 | Buell Hall, Columbia University
The Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University will hold a panel discussion called “Celebrating Our Roots,” which will have special musical performances to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the 1982 Chinatown garment workers’ strike and its lasting impact on the families, community, and labor history of NYC’s Chinatown.

The event will be held October 19, 2022 from 6:00 p.m. It is free and open to the public, registration is not required.

More information at www.neighbors.columbia.edu

Bernhardt Labor Journalism Awards and Forum
2022-10-13 18:00 - 19:30
The Bernhardt Prize is an award of $1,000 given for an article that furthers the understanding of the history of working people, presented at the annual Bernhardt Labor Journalism Forum. The event and the prize honor the vision of the late Debra E. Bernhardt, who worked in so many different realms to share the hidden histories of working people.

THE 2022 WINNER is Molly Crabapple for the article “How the Taxi Workers Won,” The Nation and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, 12/13/21.

JOIN US for the 8th Annual Bernhardt Labor Journalism Forum on Thursday October 13 at 6pm. The event will be in person at Bobst Library AND also available virtually online.

More information and registration link at www.laborarts.org

Workers Unite Film Festival Celebrates Global Labor Solidarity
2022-10-07 00:00 - 2022-10-21 23:59
Schedule and tickets at www.workersunitefilmfestival.org

The Workers Unite Film Festival is a celebration of Global Labor Solidarity and New York’s only labor film festival. The Festival aims to showcase student and professional films from the United States and around the world which publicize and highlight the struggles, successes and daily lives of all workers in their efforts to unite and organize for better living conditions and social justice. The organizers are deeply connected to and support both the American labor movement and the fight of all workers around the globe to achieve lives filled with respect for their rights and dignity on the job.

This is the 11th Annual Workers Unite Film Festival – NYC Celebrates Global Labor Solidarity! Our Festival is scheduled between the 100th anniversary of the success of the “Bread and Roses” strike in Lawrence, MA., the 101st anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, a rallying point for organizing American workers and May Day, the international workers day of unity. The Eleventh Annual Workers Unite Film Festival will be held from October 7th to 21st – at the historic downtown Manhattan movie theater, Cinema Village, as well as other labor union and community group auditoriums throughout the city.

We seek to join forces with our working brothers and sisters from around the world, both organized in existing unions and those currently fighting to organize for their workplace rights. Our goal is to broadcast our stories of struggle and victory around the mainstream media that often pretend that we – the 99%, count for less than the celebrities and corporate titans normally showcased in those mainstream media outlets.

Photo Exhibit Celebrating The 1982 International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union Strike: Opening Reception
2022-09-22 17:00 - 18:30
Opening reception (in person!) of WE ARE ONE, a photo exhibit celebrating a landmark moment in the history of workers in New York City. Poet huiying b. chan will read a poem honoring the garment workers. Light refreshments will be served.

420 Hamilton Hall1130 Amsterdam AvenueNew York City

About the exhibition:

WE ARE ONEThe 1982 International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union Strike

WE ARE ONE was the rallying cry during the brief and successful strike forty years ago (in the summer of 1982) when 20,000 members of Local 23-25 of the ILGWU – most of them Chinese immigrant women – walked off the job. This extraordinary outpouring of energy from the women in the rank and file led to lasting changes in New York’s Chinatown community.

Presented by LaborArts and Columbia University’s Center for the Study of Race and EthnicityCurated by Rachel Bernstein and May Chen. Designed by Megan Waldau Chang

No registration needed. For more information contact info@laborarts.org – the selection of beautiful photos has been drawn from the virtual exhibit online.

Framing the Village: An exhibition of West Village and East Village Art
2022-09-06 00:00 - 2022-09-30 23:59
The exhibition, which includes a Triangle Fire commemoration photo, features the work of more than 30 painters and photographers who either live in, or have close ties with, the area bounded by 14th and Houston Streets, and the Hudson and East Rivers, in New York City.

Curated by long time Village Artist Mark Kehoe

WHEN: Now through September 30, M-Wed 10-3pm Thurs 1-3pmWHERE: Revelation Gallery at St. John’s in the Village – 224 Waverly (red door) between West 11th and Seventh Avenue, NYC

More information at www.thevillagetrip.com

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Walking Tour
2022-09-05 10:00 - 12:15
On Saturday, March 25, 1911 at the end of the work day, a fire began on the 8th floor of the Triangle Garment Factory. Within thirty minutes, 146 of the 500 workers laboring on floors eight, nine, and ten would die. Most were young immigrant women who had gone on strike the year before, complaining of low pay, long hours, unsanitary conditions, dangerous fires, locked doors, and harassing supervisors. That tragedy provoked outrage, union movement building, and led to political reform in New York and states around the country, eventually influencing Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal legislation of the 1930s.

In collaboration with Labor Arts and the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition, Dr. Daniel Katz, will lead a tour beginning at Cooper Union at Astor Place, proceeding to the NYU Brown building on Washington Place, the site of the fire, and up to Union Square, where the social justice legacy of the fire continued for a century. A portion of every ticket sold will go toward building the Triangle Fire memorial now under construction at the site of the fire.

For more information and to RSVP, visit People’s Heritage Tours.

With Justice for All: Remembering the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
2022-09-04 11:00 - 12:15
From New York to California, from Italy to Bangladesh, people remember the 146 workers who died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in Greenwich Village in 1911. Their deaths galvanized a movement for workers’ rights and workplace safety, which led to monumental changes that still affect our lives. Mary Anne Trasciatti, President of Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition, and co-editor (with Edvige Giunta) of Talking to the Girls: Intimate and Political Essays on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, reflects on various ways the Triangle story continues to inspire activists, artists, writers, teachers, and scholars in the U.S. and internationally to stand together and fight for a better world.

Mary Anne Trasciatti, Ph.D. is Professor of Rhetoric and Director of Labor Studies at Hofstra University, is President of Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition. She is co-editor (with Edvige Giunta) of Talking to the Girls: Intimate and Political Essays on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (New Village Press, 2022). For over a decade, she has been leading the project to build a permanent memorial to honor the 146 mostly Italian and Jewish immigrant women and girls who died in the 1911 Triangle fire. Scheduled for dedication in 2023, the Triangle Fire Memorial will be the first labor memorial and one of only a small number of memorials to women in New York City.

More information at www.ethical.nyc
