Bread & Roses Strike, 1912 #BreadAndRoses #LaborHistory #WomenAtWork | TerrifyingMyths

🌏Happy International Women’s Day!🌍 Bread and Roses is a powerful labor anthem from a strike in Lawrence MA in 1912, where workers were mostly immigrant women. Its timeless message reminds us that when we lift each other up and build coalitions, we all benefit 🇦🇺Now touring Australia! 3/8 - Pomona, QLD^ 3/9 - Eudlo, QLD^ 3/10 - Toowoomba, QLD^ 3/13 - Port Macquarie, NSW^ 3/15-17 - Katoomba, NSW - Blue Mountains Music Fest 3/20 - Bowral, NSW^ 3/21 - Goulburn, NSW^ 3/22-24 - Yackandandah Folk F

In honor of International Women's Day and the 108th anniversary of the end of the Bread and Roses Strike in Lawrence MA (January-March, 1912), we want to share our version of Bread and Roses. We offer it in gratitude and recognition of the many generations of brave activists whose courage and action shaped the world we live in today. We stand on your shoulders, and carry your legacy forward. "What the woman who labors wants is the right to live, not simply exist – the right to life as the rich w