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RadioActive: Talking CT's State Budget
Posted on 23 April 2011.
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RadioActive: Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, 100 Years Later
Posted on 26 March 2011.
We discuss the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Fire on its on
e hundredth anniversary, and
its implications for the labor movement then and now. We’re joined in the studio by Steve Thornton of SEIU 1199.
Click here to download the MP3
Photo shows bodies from the fire. Photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/familytreemagazine/5553242173/sizes/l/in/photostream/
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100th Anniversary of Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Posted on 24 March 2011.
-content/uploads/2011/03/closeup_9thfloor-70×70.jpg” alt=”" width=”70″ height=”70″ /> (Hartford) On Friday March 25th, a ceremony honoring the 146 workers who needlessly perished in a fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory in NYC
will take place at the Legislative Office Building in Hartford, First Floor
Atrium. at 4:30 p.m..There will be speakers and a performance by the Colchester Community Theatre.
For more info on the tragedy, check out: http://homefront.homestead.com/Triangle.html
photo courtesy of Steve Thornton
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RadioActive: Solidarity Rally at the Capitol
Posted on 05 March 2011.
Hundreds of union
members and supporters gathered at
the state
Capitol in Hartford in solidarity with workers in Wisconsin, and to support rights of collective bargaining here in CT.
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MoveOn.org Labor Solidarity Rally
Posted on 02 March 2011.
(Hartford) Following the successful solidarity rally
held 3 days earlier by local unions and allies, MoveOn.org organized another show of support
for Wisconsin workers facing threats to their right to bargain collectively.
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RadioActive: May Day Hartford
Posted on 25 April 2010.
SEIU 1199′s Steve Thornton discusses the events surrounding Hartford’s first annual May Day celebration, coming Saturday May 1 to Burr Mall, Main Street next to city hall in Downtown Hartford – music, food, workshops and a walking tour of labor history in Hartford.
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