NYC: Wobblies! NYC Book Release Party!!!

Anarchist6913 writes
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"The New York release party for the great new book Wobblies!, co-edited by Nicole Schulman, is set for next Friday at the new(ish) Vox Pop bookstore & coffeehouse in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Featuring multi-media presentations by: Mac McGill, Sabrina Jones, Tom Keough, Nicole Schulman and Seth Tobocman, it’s sure to be a great event. Come out, buy a book, and say hello.

Friday April 29th, 8pm — Free!

Release party for Wobblies!
@ Vox Pop - 1022 Cortelyou Road, Flatbush, Brooklyn
"Serving Books, Democracy and Coffee!"

Direx: “Q” Train to Cortelyou Road — exit to the Left, walk a few blocks.
Map -> http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1022+Cortelyou+Road, +Brooklyn&hl=en

W: http://www.voxpopnet.net/
W: http://visualresistance.org/wordpress/?p=130

Artists Links:
Mac McGill - http://www.drawingresistance.org/new_page_18.htm

Sabrina Jones - http://sabrinaland.com/

Nicole Schulman - http://www.nicoleschulman.com/

Seth Tobocman - http://sethtobocman.mahost.org/

Wobblies!

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A Graphic History of the International Workers of the World:

The Industrial Workers or the World, or "Wobblies," remain in popular memory as the most romantic, transnational and antiracist labor movement in American history, source of folklore, music, martyrs like Joe Hill, and heroic moments such as the "Bread and Roses" immigrants' strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts, in 1912.

Wobblies! is a vibrant history in graphic art, published on the centenary of the founding of the Industrial Workers of the World. It explores the exciting, often controversial politics and history of this major labor movement. Graphic illustrations tell stories and introduce the major characters of this vibrant, radical, often neglected part of Americana.

The stories of the hardrock miners' shooting wars, young Elizabeth Gurly Flynn (the "Rebel Girl" of contemporary sheet music), the first sit-down strikes and Free Speech fights. Tales of Emma Goldman and the struggle for birth control access, the Pageant for Paterson orchestrated in Madison Square Garden, bohemian radicals John Reed and Louise Bryant. Stories of field-hand revolts and lumber workers' strikes, wartime witch hunts, government prosecutions and mob lynching, Mexican-American uprisings in Baja and Mexican peasant revolts led by Wobblies, hilarious and sentimental songs created and later revived? — all are here, and much more.

"Tell the bosses to go to hell and buy an extra copy of this wonderful history. Give it to an exploited friend or just leave it in a public place. On the centenary of the IWW, we should be replanting the seeds of rebellion.”

-Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz and Planet of Slums

“America, contrary to what you might have been led to believe, has a deep indigenous radical tradition. Wobblies! excavates an essential part of American history that has been conveniently overlooked in recent years, and does so with style, great graphics, and no punches pulled.”

– Luc Sante, author of Low Life and Evidence

Boston Globe says:
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/20 05/04/17/blue_collar_comics/"