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JSG events

UNITED AGAINST SWEATSHOP SLAVERY
The 100th Anniversary of the Great 1912 Tailors’ Strike
Speakers: Ben Gidley, Donnacha DeLong
7-9pm, Wednesday 23rd May 2012
at Library, Bishopsgate Institute, 230 Bishopsgate EC2M 4QH (Liverpool Street tube)
In April 1912 a strike started among West End tailors and soon afterwards, in May, thousands of immigrant Jewish East End tailors came out to support them and to challenge the whole sweatshop system. Dockers in the East End were on strike too for better conditions, and tailors and dockers held joint strike meetings. How did the strike begin and end? Who organised it and how? What was the role of Rudolph Rocker and the anarchists? How did they maximise wider community support? What can we learn from this strike that is relevant to today’s struggles100 years on?
Come along to the meeting and find out!
Ben Gidley is a senior researcher at Compas at Oxford Univeristy working on East End Jewish radical history.
Donnacha DeLong is the President of the National Union of Journalists
Please note that the meeting begins at 7pm sharp
ALL WELCOME

Other events

Protest, power, struggle and strife. No Pasaran!
Walk by David Rosenberg for the Rich Mix snapshots festival.
12-1.30pm, Saturday 19th May 2012
£8.50. Bookings: www.richmix.org.uk/whats-on/event/no-pasarn-guided-walk/ Box office: 020 7613 7498

All Friends of Yiddish monthly meeting
Sobell Centre, 221 Golders Green Road London NW11 9DQ.
2 - 4.30pm, 20th May 2012
Sobell Centre, 221 Golders Green Road London NW11 9DQ.
Poetry, stories, songs reading, discussion. All enthusiasts for Yiddish welcome. Donation £2 .

Refusing to be enemies: Palestinan and Israeli Nonviolent Resistance to the Israeli Occupation
Indian YMCA, 41 Fitzroy Square, London W1T 6AQ
7-9pm, Thursday 24th May 2012
With author Maxine Kaufman-Lacusta presenting material from her book in which 100 activists describe their activities and tactics. Organised by Jews for Justice for Palestinians.

Stop Search
Until 26th May 2012
A new play about the impact of police powers.
Broadway Theatre, Catford London SE6 4RU.
Box office: 020 8690 0002

The Words and Art of Cable Street +
Wednesday 6th June 2012
Keats House NW3 2RR
Part of a 10-day festival. Talk by author Roger Mills, from 1-2pm followed 2-3.30pm by JSG member Vivi Lachs doing a talk on Singing in Yiddish about London.

Anti-Fascist Footprints: a walk through the 1930s East End from Gardiners Corner to Cable Street
11am, Sunday 10th June 2012
Guided walk led by JSG member David Rosenberg.
£7/£4. Book online at: www.eastendwalks.com

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