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SoNotHer · 10-12-2011, 06:43 PM

on indigenous peoples' day. Maybe another quote here would serve to embolden and allay - I've worried as well about the effect of winter on the protests:

From A People's History of the United States, "Robber Barons and Rebels":

"That winter in Yonkers, a few women carpet weavers were fired for joining the Knights [of Labor], and in the cold of February, 2,500 women walked out and picketed the mill. Only seven hundred of them were members of the Knights, but all the strikers soon joined. The police attacked the picket line and arrested them, but a jury found them not guilty. A great dinner was held by working people in New York to honor them, with two thousand delegates from unions all over the city. The strike lasted six months, and the women won some of their demands, getting back their jobs, but without recognition of their union.

What was astonishing in so many of these struggles was not that the strikers did not win all that they wanted, but that, against such great odds, they dared to resist, and were not destroyed."

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SoNotHer Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Professional Sandbagger and Jenga Zumba Instructor Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: In the master control room of my world domination dreams Posts: 2,811 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 6,587 Thanked 4,735 Times in 1,409 Posts Rep Power: 21474851	I quoted from Zinn's masterpiece in Corkey's thread on indigenous peoples' day. Maybe another quote here would serve to embolden and allay - I've worried as well about the effect of winter on the protests: From A People's History of the United States, "Robber Barons and Rebels": "That winter in Yonkers, a few women carpet weavers were fired for joining the Knights [of Labor], and in the cold of February, 2,500 women walked out and picketed the mill. Only seven hundred of them were members of the Knights, but all the strikers soon joined. The police attacked the picket line and arrested them, but a jury found them not guilty. A great dinner was held by working people in New York to honor them, with two thousand delegates from unions all over the city. The strike lasted six months, and the women won some of their demands, getting back their jobs, but without recognition of their union. What was astonishing in so many of these struggles was not that the strikers did not win all that they wanted, but that, against such great odds, they dared to resist, and were not destroyed."