Happy international working women’s day!
Mar. 8th, 2017 11:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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justsomeantifas:
jewish-privilege:
whoisdangerwoman:
justsomeantifas:
Friendly reminder that today was set up to celebrate the strike of women garment workers across all of Manhattan, a strike which had a large number of women who would later die in the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. That strike was primarily made up of immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe, many of whom didn’t speak English, and the strike was attacked brutally by the police.
After a period of time, the strike was joined by a group of rich suffragettes, including the daughter of JP Morgan. This collaboration would be…familiar, to a lot of people working today. Anne Morgan gave a speech, in front of a group of women beaten and unjustly arrested by the police, that this wasn’t about being a worker, that the police weren’t their enemies, etc. The ‘mink brigade’ of rich suffragettes helped negotiate the strike and eventually the strike ended with some of the goals being met, but a bunch of the provisions, including improved safety, were not.
Eight years later and a hundred years ago, another women’s strike started, in Saint Petersburg. This women’s strike was quickly joined by other groups, and is considered the beginning of the Russian Revolution.
Reminder:“Eight years later and a hundred years ago, another women’s strike started, in Saint Petersburg. This women’s strike was quickly joined by other groups, and is considered the beginning of the Russian Revolution.“
They were mostly Jewish women, led by Jewish women. Not just immigrants from eastern and southern women. Their Jewishness is fundamental to their activism. They pledged, in Yiddish, an adaptation of Psalm 137: “If I turn traitor to the cause I now pledge, may this hand wither from the arm I now raise.” Psalm 137 is about the Jewish people’s exile from and yearning to return to our ancestral home of Israel. It’s about our history as a diasporic people. It’s specifically a Jewish plea and Clara Lemlich’s adaptation of it as a pledge was not an accident.
By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
Upon the willows in the midst thereof we hanged up our harps.
For there they that led us captive asked of us words of song, and our tormentors asked of us mirth:
‘Sing us one of the songs of Zion.’
How shall we sing the Lord’s song in a foreign land?If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I remember thee not; if I set not Jerusalem above my chiefest joy.
O daughter of Babylon, that art to be destroyed;
happy shall he be, that repayeth thee as thou hast served us.
Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the rock.
Please don’t erase their Jewishness.
Sorry about that, should’ve been more explicit.
justsomeantifas:
jewish-privilege:
whoisdangerwoman:
justsomeantifas:
Friendly reminder that today was set up to celebrate the strike of women garment workers across all of Manhattan, a strike which had a large number of women who would later die in the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. That strike was primarily made up of immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe, many of whom didn’t speak English, and the strike was attacked brutally by the police.
After a period of time, the strike was joined by a group of rich suffragettes, including the daughter of JP Morgan. This collaboration would be…familiar, to a lot of people working today. Anne Morgan gave a speech, in front of a group of women beaten and unjustly arrested by the police, that this wasn’t about being a worker, that the police weren’t their enemies, etc. The ‘mink brigade’ of rich suffragettes helped negotiate the strike and eventually the strike ended with some of the goals being met, but a bunch of the provisions, including improved safety, were not.
Eight years later and a hundred years ago, another women’s strike started, in Saint Petersburg. This women’s strike was quickly joined by other groups, and is considered the beginning of the Russian Revolution.
Reminder:“Eight years later and a hundred years ago, another women’s strike started, in Saint Petersburg. This women’s strike was quickly joined by other groups, and is considered the beginning of the Russian Revolution.“
They were mostly Jewish women, led by Jewish women. Not just immigrants from eastern and southern women. Their Jewishness is fundamental to their activism. They pledged, in Yiddish, an adaptation of Psalm 137: “If I turn traitor to the cause I now pledge, may this hand wither from the arm I now raise.” Psalm 137 is about the Jewish people’s exile from and yearning to return to our ancestral home of Israel. It’s about our history as a diasporic people. It’s specifically a Jewish plea and Clara Lemlich’s adaptation of it as a pledge was not an accident.
By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
Upon the willows in the midst thereof we hanged up our harps.
For there they that led us captive asked of us words of song, and our tormentors asked of us mirth:
‘Sing us one of the songs of Zion.’
How shall we sing the Lord’s song in a foreign land?If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I remember thee not; if I set not Jerusalem above my chiefest joy.
O daughter of Babylon, that art to be destroyed;
happy shall he be, that repayeth thee as thou hast served us.
Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the rock.
Please don’t erase their Jewishness.
Sorry about that, should’ve been more explicit.
