100 YEARS OF WORKING CLASS SOLIDARITY

100 YEARS OF WORKING CLASS SOLIDARITY

Pittsburgh, PA – October 15, 2005 – In one week the Pittsburgh General Membership Branch of the Industrial Workers of the World will mark the union’s 100th anniversary. The celebration recognizes a century of working class solidarity and radical industrial unionism.

The open house will feature:
Labor artwork
100 years of IWW art
Historic displays & current organizing projects
Music by the Raging Grannies and the Pittsburgh Steel Gum Bandits
Free speech soap boxing & labor poetry
Tribute to Joe Hill, the father of modern protest music
Featured speaker will be Mark Damron, chair of the IWW General Executive Board and candidate for General Secretary-Treasurer.

AGENDA (start times)
10am - Welcome & opening remarks, IWW songs
11am - Soap boxing (theme: free speech) & IWW songs
12pm - Soap boxing (solidarity, direct action, right to strike) & IWW songs
12:30pm - Featured speaker: Mark Damron of the IWW General Executive Board
1pm - Pgh GMB history presentation
2pm -Soap boxing (one big union) & IWW songs
3pm - Soap boxing (the overthrow of capitalism) & IWW songs
4pm - IWW video/slideshow
4:30pm - Music: Raging Grannies, Pgh Steel Gum Bandits
5pm - Soap boxing (labor against the war) & IWW songs
5:30pm - Music: Raging Grannies, Pgh Steel Gum Bandits
6pm - Farewell and closing remarks by the Secretary-Treasurer. IWW Songs

Pittsburgh IWW Centenary Celebration
DATE: October 22, 2005
TIME: 10am to 6pm
PLACE: The Pump House, East Waterfront Drive @ Waterfront Mall, Homestead, PA

Contact:
Kevin Farkas
Chair, Pgh GMB Centenary
PO Box 90315
Pittsburgh, PA 15224

Phone: 724-630-7449
Email: pittsburghiww@yahoo.com
Web: http://www.iww.org