Happened upon a sculptor (presumedly working for Mary Brogger and/or the City of Chicago) touching up the Haymarket Riot Memorial last weekend.
Haymarket Touchup
prep work for the May Day rally at the Haymarket Riot memorial site
If I have time April 27th, I'd go along on this....
Gapers Block : Slowdown : April 27, 2007 : Join The Folks from the Finding Our Roots anarchist theory conference for a bit of local history from 3:30pm and 6:30pm on their Anarchy 101 walking tour of Chicago. At 3:30 Meet at The Old Cook County Courthouse where the Haymarket trial took place (Dearborn and Hubbard). This tour ends at Bughouse Square (across from the Newberry Library) with a soccer match. Then at 6:30 Meet at Haymarket Square at Randolph and Desplaines for more walking and talking. In addition to the walks there will be soapb.ox speaking actions with speeches by Lucy Parsons, Buenaventura Durruti, Emma Goldman, August Spies and Bartolomeo Vanzetti.
Technorati Tags: Haymarket, history, repression, West_Loop
American anarchists; simpleI really want to read all about this. It's so hard to find info on social movements more to the left in the USA. I am not an anarchist but my Brazilian grandpa' second older brother was, José Oiticica, Helio Oiticica's grandpa. That's why I named my blogs Anarchic Universe and Universo Anárquico. Sort of a tribute.