Laborfest:Blood Passion: The Ludlow Massacre and Class War in the American West : Indybay

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Title:	Laborfest:Blood Passion: The Ludlow Massacre and Class War in the American West
START DATE:	Wednesday July 08
TIME:	7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Location Details:
Modern Times Bookstore, 888 Valencia St., San Francisco (16th St and 24th St BART stations)
Event Type:	Teach-In
A book reading: Blood Passion: The Ludlow Massacre and Class War in the American West by Scott Martelle, a Los Angeles Times staff writer, and a veteran of the 1995 Detroit Newspaper Strike. During the Colorado Ludlow massacre of April 20, 1914, seventy-five miners and their families were killed, showing the brutal face of Rockefeller and the early robber barons who used the national militia and US Army to destroy the power of working people. This massacre also led to open class warfare in Colorado between the state and the workers, and included Mother Jones, who came to the aid of these workers and their families. See also: http://www.scottmartelle.com/ http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu/acatalog/__Blood_Passion_1832.html http://www.laborfest.net/2009schedule.htm http://www.laborfest.net/2009schedule.htm Added to the calendar on Sunday Jun 14th, 2009 4:35 AM