Ten dead, a hundred injured in bloodstained Chicago field » peoplesworld

Ten dead, a hundred injured in bloodstained Chicago field » peoplesworld

click link for story.  am going to chicago today with granite city soar folks for rally and speeches

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Today, 75 years later, the fight for workers' rights is still front and center. After occupying the state capital in Madison, Wisconsin last year workers may be on the verge next week of recalling a right-wing Republican Governor who pushed through a law to destroy the collective bargaining rights the families were demanding back then in 1937. There is no question on whose side Wisconsin's Gov. Scott Walker would have been had he been alive in 1937.
While Memorial Day is traditionally thought of as a day to remember our fallen soldiers, many in the labor movement would like to include fallen workers on that list. American history, they say, has also involved warfare between those who want to expand wealth and democracy and those who want to restrict both to a privileged few.
This incredible day in American history will be remembered on May 26^th, 2012 at Chicago's George Washington High School, 3535 E. 114^TH St., right where the massacre occurred, with a panel discussion at 10 a.m. and a "still fighting back rally" at 1:30 p.m., featuring Leo Gerard, president of the United Steelworkers of America.