Hosted by International Working Women’s Day Coalition
On May 1st 2017 at Union Square: We call on all women Activists & their Organizations to join The International Working Women’s May Day Contingent honoring Lucy Gonzales Parsons, one of the founders of the First May Day, 1886. Look for Parsons banner facing Broadway and E. 14th St. @ 4 p.m.
It is our revolutionary responsibility to ensure that the sisters & brothers on whose shoulders we stand aren’t forgotten. The wealthy class’s version of history makes working women, especially women of color, poor women, women with disabilities, lesbian & gender nonconforming women, homeless women, immigrant women, rural women and women survivors of domestic violence invisible.
We are lifting up our sister Lucy because she blazed paths that we continue to walk to this day.
According to Chicago police she was “more dangerous than a thousand rioters.”
***A Black- Indigenous-Mexican woman who courageously spent her whole life fighting against racist terror, capitalism & Imperialism. Supported Scottsboro Brothers, 9 Black youth falsely accused of rape in Alabama.
***Earned a living as a seamstress was an editor/ columnist of anti-imperialist publications while raising her two children.
Led the 1886 march for the 8-hour day that inspired the founding of May Day; opened her home to the International Ladies Garment Workers Union; founder of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
***Inspired workers to seize the means of production; relentlessly supported those unjustly arrested and executed, known as the Hay Market (8 hour/day Martyrs) including her spouse.
***Organized poor working class women’s rights to struggle against the bosses, the privilege class of wealthy women and for women’s rights to contraceptives and safe abortions.
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