Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: Join us tomorrow! , March 25, 2011!

Walk shoulder to shoulder with your brothers and sisters from Local 1 tomorrow, March 25, as we remember the victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.
 
On March 25, 1911, 146 workers (many of them young immigrant women) were killed in a disastrous fire that spread throughout the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in Greenwich Village.The fire and the trial that resulted from this fire  became rallying cries for the international labor movement. Many labor and fire safety laws that protect us today were created in response to this tragic event. Mark its 100th anniversary at memorial events around NYC and the country. Events info at http://rememberthetrianglefire.org/
 
11am - 12pm
The Centennial Procession of 146 Shirtwaists and Sashes
During this mobile event, volunteers (including family members of employees who lost their lives in the fire) will start at Union Square South and march down Broadway carrying 146 handmade shirtwaists attached to bamboo poles; each will be decorated with a sash bearing the name of a Triangle casualty. The hour-long procession will end at the building where the fire took place, which is now owned by New York University.(23-29 Washington Square East, corner of Greene Street)
 
12pm
Speakers and Ceremony
Scheduled speakers include US Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis, NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and actor/activist Danny Glover.
 
TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE FIRE:
Watch the new documentary Triangle: Remembering the Fire,  on HBO this week (and on HBO On Demand through April 18).

http://www.hbo.com/#/documentaries/triangle-remembering-the-fire

  • Read Triangle: The Fire that Changed America by David von Drehle, by most accounts the definitive book on the tragedy

     http://www.amazon.com/Triangle-Fire-That-Changed-America/dp/0871138743