tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post3457127843797431500..comments2024-03-29T08:54:53.425-05:00Comments on Every goddamn day: 03/29/24: New York City reminds us what made America great: immigrantsNeil Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-23882843915240466582020-02-19T19:08:22.484-06:002020-02-19T19:08:22.484-06:00Philip Evergood’s “An American Tragedy,” depicting...Philip Evergood’s “An American Tragedy,” depicting Chicago’s Memorial Day Massacre, (in which police fired into a crowd of steelworkers and killed ten, seven of whom were shot in the back) is also the image on the cover of "The Last Great Strike" by Ahmed White, an excellent book about labor rights, the CIO, and the 1937 steel strike. <br /><br />In the early Sixties, my beatnik uncle was tearing out the linoleum in the kitchen of a Manhattan tenement when he uncovered a layer of New York newspapers with screaming headlines about the carnage in Chicago. He salvaged and preserved them, and later incorporated them into artwork depicting the rise of organized labor in the Thirties. He was just seven years old on that tragic day. Grizz 65https://www.blogger.com/profile/02892702223228764894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-67254180955160521622020-02-19T10:14:44.211-06:002020-02-19T10:14:44.211-06:00Did you visit the Statue of Bigotry? Is it still t...Did you visit the Statue of Bigotry? Is it still there? J. Pabsthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11566801024154623288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-13123354219774293292020-02-19T08:53:52.045-06:002020-02-19T08:53:52.045-06:00To feel comfortable in America's multicultural...To feel comfortable in America's multicultural climate, is to feel comfortable on planet earth. Let the frightened cower in the corners, trembling, dripping ignorance and fear; I'll be in the piazza, dancing. Tony Galatihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11944671504245191140noreply@blogger.com