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Keepers of the Hearth: A Journey Through Late Industrial America Botto House National Landmark 83 Norwood Street in Haledon, NJ Through August 29, 2004 Wed. - Sat. 1-4 p.m. or by appointment Photographer Guy W. Saldanha documents workers, industrial crafts, and technologies rapidly disappearing from the American workplace: cavernous cargo holds of a freighter; the volcanic interior of a blast furnace; a mill for raw sugar cane; and roc dust-covered lead and silver mines. $3/$2 Srs./$1.50 age 12-18/under free. 973-595-7953. labormuseum@aol.com. Living Through History: Chinatown Stories Museum of Chinese in the Americas 70 Mulberry St., 2nd Floor, (corner of Bayard St.), NYC Ongoing Tues.-Sun. 12 noon-5 p.m. First-hand intergenerational stories of war, prejudice and survival personalize events ranging from the two World Wars to the discovery of AIDS in the 1980s. $3/$1 Srs., Students under 12 free. 212-619-4785. www.chinatownweb.com/MOCA/ A History of the Lower East Side In 15-Minute Chapters Tenement Museum 97 Orchard Street Through June 12, 2004 Always on view! Artists Adam Lubinsky and Gary Stoltz installation depicts: the Lower Eats Side Restaurant, c. 2003; the Vladeck Houses, c. 1941; the Seward Park day laborers pickup site, c. 1910; and the First Chinese Presbyterian Church, c. 1817. Free. 212-431-0233. Art From the Waterfront www.laborarts.org Ongoing Images from the International Longshoremen and Warehousemen's Union are featured on a new web exhibit on the Labor arts website. Contact: Rachel Bernstein & Henry Foner. 2004 EVENTS Sat., May 1, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. 6th Annual Hudson-Mohawk May Day Celebration Free Speech and Worker Rights Troy, NY: Hear Staughton Lynd, labor historian & community activist from Youngstown, OH; Colombian trade unionist & teacher, Ibeth Vergara; environmental speakers; Four Who Dared (Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Kate Mullaney, Emma Willard, and Harriet Tubman -- in costume); Troy labor history tours; poetry, folk singers; music, Hyde Park-style free speech soapboxers. Sage Park at Congress, between 1st & 2nd, on Russell Sage College campus. Evening concert at Revolution Hall (raising money for the Kate Millaney House). Information: Art Fleischner 518-273-2759. Alad8@localnet.com. library.albany.edu/speccoll/mayday Sat., May 1, 1 p.m. May Day Festival Haledon, NJ: Free outdoor May Day Festival at the American Labor Museum/Botto House National Landmark. Hear "An American Labor Songbook" performed by Helen Williams, soprano, and Leonard Lehrman, piano; The NJ Solidarity Singers; George Mann & Julius Margolin; Margaret Orner portraying "Mother" Mary Harris Jones. Indoors if it rains. Refreshments. Museum tours. 83 Norwood St., Haledon, NJ. Voluntary contribution $10. 973-595-7953. Sat., May 1, 12:30 p.m. We Shall Not Be Moved: The Music of May Day Celebrate May Day, the international workers' holiday, in NYC's historic Union Square Park. Traditional & new songs of labor, protest, pride & resistance. Labor singer John Pietaro, punk-folk troubadour Kirk Kelly, & others. Open air performance, alongside Ghandi's stature (near 15th St.). Free. Info.: John Pietaro: 347-733-0949. Leftmus@earthlink.net. Sat., May 1, 1:30-5 p.m. Building Bridges May Day Special Over WBAI, 99.5 FM The race to the bottom used to be applied to workers in the "developing countries." After years of sustained attacks on the working class, it seems ever more applicable to the underdevelopment of the U.S. working class. Produced by Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash. Sun., May 2, 1 p.m. Wall St. Radical Walking Tour From Robber Barons to those who resisted them. Includes the Rockefellers, Junius & J.P. Morgan, Abbie Hoffman, and NYC's sit organized slave revolt. Meet: steps of Smithsonian Museum of American Indian (1 Bowling Green, across from 2 Broadway). $10. Bruce Kayton 718-492-0069. Tues., May 4, 6-8 p.m. Marvin Miller and the Revolution in Baseball NYLHA Spring Labor History Conference Panel Discussion: Marvin J. Miller, first Executive Director, Major League Baseball Players Association; Joseph Dorinson, Long Island University, author, Jackie Robinson: Race, Sports, and the American Dream; Carl Prince, New York University, author, Brooklyn's Dodgers; Brad Snyder, sportswriter, author, Beyond the Shadow of the Senators. Workmen's Circle, 45 East 33rd St. (between Park Ave. South & Madison Ave.) Free. Refreshments. 212-998-2636. Tues., May 4, 7 p.m. Women's History Is a Woman's Right Talk by Connie Kopelov on working women's struggles for jobs, unions, suffrage, and an end to sweatshops. Free. Bluestockings Book Store/Café, 172 Allen St. (at Stanton) NYC. Information: 212-777-6028. Tues., May 11, 7 p.m. Brooklyn Labor Speaks Symposium: The Changing Role of Women in the Service Economy. Moderated by Dr. Joshua Freeman of Queens College and CUNY Graduate Center. Brooklyn Historical Society. 128 Pierrepont St., Brooklyn. 718-222-4111. Wed., May 12, 6 p.m. American Labor and the Soviet Collapse Book Party for Roger Keeran, co-author with Thomas Kenny of Socialism Betrayed: Behind the Collapse of the Soviet Union; SUNY Empire State College Graduate Program; Suny Empire State College; 225 Varick St., 2nd floor, Room 56. Free. 212-647-7816. Fri., May 14, 8 p.m. The Triangle Factory Fire Project World premiere! New play by Christopher Piehler dramatically explores the story behind the 1911 fire and its shocking aftermath. Performed by acclaimed The Actors Company Theatre. Through May 29. $15. 410 W. 42 St., NYC. 212-239-6200. Sun., May 16, 2-4 p.m. African-American Life in Lower Manhattan Walking tour of the African Burial Ground, Underground Railroad stations, former location of New York's slave market, African Free School, & Colored Sailor's Home. Meet: South Street Seaport Museum lobby entrance,12 Fulton St. $10. (Does not include museum admission.) Reservations: 212-748-8786. Mon., May 17, 6 p.m. Pa' Lo Monte: In Concert Performing traditional rhythms and melodies of the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Hear the strength of African and indigenous traditions and a continuing legacy of resistance, in the workplace and the community. At DC 37, 125 Barclay St. (near West St.). Info. Ken Nash 212-815-1699. Fri., May 21, 8:30 a.m.-10:15 a.m. Strategic Campaigns to Rebuild Union Power With Ken Zinn, Director, Center for Strategic Research, National AFL-CIO Organizing Department. Labor Leaders' Breakfast Forums. Cornell ILR, 16 E. 34th St. 6th Fl., NYC. $10 Registration: Stacy Reynolds 212-340-2856. Mon., May 24, 7 p.m. Building Bridges Labor History Month Special Over WBAI, 99.5 FM Lucy Parsons, a 19th century African-American, Native-American & Mexican-American revolutionary anarchist labor activist, led workers into the streets in mass protests across the country. Into the early 20th century, Lucy Parsons was at the forefront of movements for social change. With author Martin Duberman and playwright Melody Cooper. Thurs., May 27, 7 p.m. The Colombo Bay Book Talk: Voyage into the exciting, dangerous, and little known world of container shipping with author Richard Pollak. In The Colombo Bay, Pollak offers a detailed account of container shipping, revealing its vital role in global trade and its potential exploitation by terrorists. South Street Seaport Museum, Melville Gallery. 213 Water St., NYC. 212-748-8600. $5. 212-748-8600. Sun., May 30, 1 p.m. Harlem Radical Walking Tour Malcolm X, A. Philip Randolph, Marcus Garvey, Fidel Castro, Communist Party, Black Panthers, and picketing of businesses on 125th Street. Meet: in front of 306 Malcolm X Blvd. (formerly Lenox Avenue), corner of 125th St. (in front of Starbuck's). $10. Bruce Kayton. 718-492-0069. For free copies of this calendar, call George Altomare: 212-598-7772. |
The following calendar of exhibitions and events was compiled by the New York Labor History Association, Inc., founded in 1975 to bring together individuals and institutions interested in the history of working people.