the most dangerous woman in america

[bcbm]

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/books/the-most-dangerous-woman-in-america-1.406292

[Os Cangaceiros]

She was awesome. I wish there were still people like her around in the USA, her and Lucy Parsons.

I've often thought about how much she must've been discouraged by the time she died, though. Failure of revolution in the USA...the Russian Revolution translated into Stalin's USSR...failure of the revolution in Spain...and European fascism at the height of it's power. I would've completely given up on the prospect of humanity being anything other than a collective pile of shit if I experienced all that, but as far as I know she never gave up.

[Ostrinski]

Remarkable lady. One of my heroes.

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

Indeed, Emma Goldman is an absolute hero.

[blake 3:17]

Gotta love her! We had an anarcho-commie-punk-effin-rock cooperative non profit here called Who's Emma? in Toronto in the 90s. Used to live around the corner from where she died, but also other spots where she gave speeches, and lived in exile for a bit.

The well documented "kettling" incident during the G20 summit here in Toronto happened at an intersection where she lived some time in the early 20s I believe.

The whole stretch she lived and died on here was primarily made up of Jewish garment workers.

[NewLeft]

Gotta love her! We had an anarcho-commie-punk-effin-rock cooperative non profit here called Who's Emma? in Toronto in the 90s. Used to live around the corner from where she died, but also other spots where she gave speeches, and lived in exile for a bit.

The well documented "kettling" incident during the G20 summit here in Toronto happened at an intersection where she lived some time in the early 20s I believe.

The whole stretch she lived and died on here was primarily made up of Jewish garment workers.

I knew she was in that area, but really along Spadina?

[blake 3:17]

Damn anarchists! Always moving around. She lived at Queen & Spadina on the NE corner -- There's been some disputes about exact addresses -- she lived/passed through many times. & died here -- I'm pretty sure:


In January 1928, Goldman did a lecture series in Toronto. In her autobiography, she described Canada as ignorant to the growing anarchist movement and said she experienced few problems entering the country.(7) She ended up staying in Toronto for over a year, generating interests in her cause and visiting with friends who traveled from the United States to be with her.(8) She created weekly lectures in Toronto and worked with the growing anarchist movements in Toronto and Montreal. She was encouraged to make Toronto her home, but did not make it her permanent residence.

http://www.heritagetoronto.org/find-out-more/first-impressions-telling-torontos-stories/emma-goldman


The Labour Lyceum, 346 Spadina Avenue, was the centre of Toronto labour activity from 1928 to 1968. "The Toronto Labour Lyceum Association, Limited", was incorporated in 1913 to serve trade unions that were not affiliated with the Communist Party. When the American feminist and anarchist Emma Goldman died in Toronto in 1940 her body lay in state here before being shipped to Chicago for burial.

http://www.lostrivers.ca/points/spadinaave.htm


BTW, found a cool video of her talking -- it's short -- http://vodpod.com/watch/940516-emma-goldman-on-old-paramount-newsreel-flv


Edited to add: The Labour Lyceum was founded as non-Communist thing? There were no Communist Parties -- and we didn't have one til 1921 or 22. If you're interested in that history of Toronto there's a great book on Jewish needle workers on Spadina called Sweatshop Strife. http://books.google.ca/books/about/Sweatshop_strife.html?id=uC0YPOu3lOAC&redir_esc=y Used to have it, but divorce and a house fire reorganize one's library.

[Krano]

I was thinking this thread was going to be about Hillary Clinton.

[Decolonize The Left]

When I was first interested in leftism I found her writings to be some of the most accessible and least difficult to understand; they just rang true more so than anyone else I was reading.

- August