Friday

The Locket: Surviving the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire by Suzann

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The Locket:
Surviving the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire by Suzanne Lieurance

Galena, an eleven-year-old Russian-Jewish immigrant, lives in New York City with her family and works at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company factory with her older sister Anya. The factory pays low wages and has terrible working conditions, making Anya yearn to join a union. Soon a horrible fire guts the factory leaving Galena with painful, horrific memories. Follow author Suzanne Lieurance in this dramatic historical fiction novel, as she describes how Galena uses the support of friends, family, and Jewish traditions to inspire her to fight for workers' rights.
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Tuesday

Purple Panda — March to your Own Beat

Purple Panda — March to your Own Beat

I’m sick of the romance. It’s over. It’s been a nice year but… We need to break up.


it's ironic,
i could've saved this young lady a whole year,
but then,
it wouldn't have been the same.

she needed the experience.

oh well, she DID stop when she got blisters,
we ALL do.

..
.ero
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AFL-CIO NOW BLOG

AFL-CIO NOW BLOG:

"Glover then read a poem by Langston Hughes entitled “Let America be America Again,” which includes this verse:

Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed—

Let it be that great strong land of love

Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme

That any man be crushed by one above."