Chicago Tribune, “Review: Tears and cheers at stirring true story of ‘Haymarket'”
byA girl of roughly middle-school age was directly in my field of vision Saturday night at the Den Theatre’s mainstage. She was part of…
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Chicago Tribune, “‘Haymarket’ back for Underscore’s 2017-18 season”
byClosing out the season in May will be a revival of the folk-fueled “Haymarket: The Anarchist’s Songbook,” inspired by true events surrounding the 1886…
Blavity, “While We’re Celebrating Labor Day, Please Remember To Honor Unsung Labor Hero Lucy Parsons”
byThe department knew her well. Parsons was often arrested for her demonstrations, speeches and distribution of anarchist literature. She continued her work until her death…
Politico, “Americans celebrate Labor Day, Sept. 4, 2017”
bySome union officials advanced May 1 as an alternative date for the holiday. May Day, then as now, was celebrated throughout much of Europe…
CBS Chicago, “Great Places To Visit On Chicago’s West Side”
byHaymarket produce district. Chicagoans gathered in the streets to watch anarchist activists speak, from atop a freight wagon, about the violent death of workers…
WBUR 90.9, “The Lucy Parsons Center, Where Boston’s Radicals Shop For Books”
byIn 1871, violating miscegenation laws, she married Albert Parsons, a socialist, anarchist, reporter and former Confederate soldier. Together, they were castigated by police and politicians…
Chicago Tribune, “Now from the Newberry Library: Old books at the fair, new ideas at the Bughouse”
byFrom roughly the 1880s into the 1930s people came to the park and stood on soapboxes or crates and spouted their passions, theories, lunacies…
Star Tribune (Twin Cities), “Walker Art Center postpones sculpture garden opening after ‘Scaffold’ protests”
by“Scaffold” references seven U.S. state-sanctioned gallows executions, including the hanging of 38 Dakota in 1862 in Mankato, the Haymarket gallows hanging of four anarchists…
Chicago Tribune, “Public insults? Chicago’s potentially offensive monuments, street names and other symbols”
byLucy Parsons Park: When Chicago announced in 2004 that a park would be named for labor activist Parsons, the police union opposed such an…
The Huffington Post, “The Meaning Of May Day”
byAfter a controversial investigation, seven anarchists were sentenced to death for murder, while another was sentenced to 15 years in prison. The anarchists won…