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On the 75th anniversary of the 1934 Minneapolis Teamster's Strike, help keep its dramatic history and significance alive. Save Saturday, July 25, 2009 on your calendar. A major street festival will be held in the Minneapolis warehouse district, on the site of Bloody Friday, where two strikers were gunned down and 65 more wounded. Their sacrifice gave rise to a vibrant local and national labor movement. Their legacy is ours to honor and to draw strength from "One Day In July" A Street Festival for the Working Class! Join us. Help make it happen. DONATE

ENDORSEMENTS:

"To celebrate the 1934 Truckers Strike in Minneapolis is to remind us of the potential power of working people in society where corporate power dominates and where today that solidarity among working people is so needed."
---Howard Zinn

"The struggle for labor rights is part of the struggle for economic and political democracy. Those countries with strong labor unions generally have a higher standard of living and a more open and democratic political system than those countries without unions. Celebrating the past victories in our labor history is an important step in teaching ourselves what working people have accomplished and what can be accomplished anew for a better life in America. My best wishes to you and the work you are doing."
---Michael Parenti, author and lecturer

"The Minneapolis Truckers Strike of 1934, taken with the Toledo Auto-Lite Strike and the San Francisco General Strike in the same year, exerted a decisive leftward push on American politics and blue collar culture. The "Second New Deal" through which Social Security and other decisive reforms were created, might never have been enacted without the pressure of the strikes showing that working people would not accept existing social relations. The Minneapolis strike and its counterparts also gave millions of working people a self-confidence in their own powers, leading to the wave of sit-down strikes a few years later. Not since the heyday of the Wobblies during the 1910s or again until the civil rights and antiwar movements of the 1950s-60s has there been so much democratic action "from below." Every effort to recuperate the importance of the 1934 events--and this is the most extensive, to my knowledge--is a blow for democracy and a different kind of society."
---Paul Buhle, retired Senior Lecturer, Brown University

"The struggles and the courage of the people who came before us has paved the way for a better quality of life for many working class people. Whether through song and story or through days of remembrance such as the "One Day In July" festival it is essential that we continue to recognize the efforts of our ancestors or we are destined to loose the very gifts and freedoms they fought so hard to give us. Dropkick Murphys stands with working people in Minneapolis on their day of remembrance. We hope you enjoy a great day celebrating the sacrifices and successes of the many brave who came before us !!!!!"
---Ken Casey, Dropkick Murphys

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COMMITTEE OF 100:

- Noam Chomsky
- Howard Zinn
- Michael Parenti
- Paul Buhle
- David Sundeen
- Christopher Loch
- Jim McGuire
- Dave Riehle
- Kristin Dooley
- Jeff Pilacinski
- Dani Indovino
- Kieran Knutson
- Heidi Hammond
- Josh Lucker
- Jason Evans
- Ty Moore
- Holly Krig
- Doug Evans
- Alan Dale
- Gladys McKenzie