by Frank. Cedervall This speech was given by IWW member and organizer Frank Cedervall at the IWW convention on September 7, 1972. Cedervall organized with the IWW in Cleveland, a city where the union had a large membership in various metal and machine manufacturing plants and factories well […]
by The Big Conversation The Big Conversation Series is starting up again this fall in Utica with a lecture dubbed A People’s History of Utica. The event will take place on Wednesday, September 26 at 7:30pm at The Other Side (2011 Genesee Street, next to Cafe Domenico). This […]
by Utica IWW Earlier in 2018, IWW organizer and adjunct professor of History at Mohawk Valley Community College delivered a lecture entitled “A People’s History of Utica” at the college. The lecture covers the labor movement, the textile strike of 1919, the IWW, the socialist movement, the anti-fascist […]
by Brendan Maslauskas Dunn/Love and Rage A small group of people waited outside Utica’s Cornerstone Community Church the evening of Wednesday, November 16 for a scheduled activist meeting leading up to the Expect Resistance – Post Election Rally. The rally was planned weeks earlier to protest disastrous ongoing […]
by Brendan Maslauskas Dunn/Love and Rage “Don’t mourn – organize!” These were the powerful words written in a letter to fellow union agitator Big Bill Haywood by the revolutionary immigrant troubadour Joe Hill in 2015. Or so the story goes. Hill was falsely accused of a murder in […]
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