Guest post for the Joe Hill Organizing Committee. It’s a bleak, early spring day in Stockholm, year 1900. A young man has just gone off the train from Gävle. Outside the Central Station he attracts some attention, not for his youth, not for his … [Read more]
Joe Hill and the Death Penalty
Guest post for the Joe Hill Organizing Committee. The Supreme Court 5-4 on June 29, 2015, approved a substitute drug cocktail that does not rule out botched executions. Justice Breyer wrote an inspiring opinion for the abolition of the death … [Read more]
Joe Hill and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
Guest post for the Joe Hill Organizing Committee. Hill and Flynn From his jail cell, the condemned prisoner Joe Hill began a lengthy correspondence with fellow worker and IWW organizer extraordinaire Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. Despite being railroaded … [Read more]
What is Right to Work?
Series: Labor Unions Today The right to work and “right-to-work.” When we juxtapose the terms, it points out that they do not mean the same thing. In fact, since the political concept of right-to-work was introduced in 1936, Americans have … [Read more]
Can Joe Hill win National History Day?
Do you wonder if young people even know who Joe Hill is? Here's an answer. Chloe Stewart, Mina Projansky Ono, and Haley Segura chose Joe Hill as their topic for the National History Day contest this year. The national theme for 2015 is Leadership … [Read more]
Who is singing for Joe Hill?
We've been busily collecting commitments from artists, and we're ready to tell you all about the great performers you will see at the September 5th Joe Hill Centennial Celebration. UPDATED! Mark Ross, a traveling musician carrying nearly 500 … [Read more]