We are calling - A national day of multi-ethnic unity with youth, labor, peace and justice communities in solidarity with immigrant workers and building new civil rights movement!

WE ARE ALL HUMANS! NO ONE IS ILLEGAL!

Imagine going down to your local brewpub or coffee shop. You meet some friends. The talk turns to the war. You criticize the President and his wealthy supporters. Next thing you know, a couple of husky fellows at the next table grab you, hustle you out the door and down to the local police station. You are arrested on a charge of sedition. Within months you are indicted, tried and convicted. The judge sentences you to 5-10 years in prison — and off you go! Think this could never happen? Well, it happened not that long ago — during World War I — to scores of ordinary people in Montana. They discovered very painfully that their free speech rights had been stripped away by the state legislature.

Mr Block is a cartoon character created in 1912 by Ernest Riebe, a german immigrant and member of the Industrial Workers of the World (http://iww.org/). Riebe lived in Minneapolis and from there established the Block Supply Company. The Block Supply Company marketed Mr Block postcards and such. Riebe published 24 Mr Block cartoons in a collection that is considered to be a forerunner to the (more modern) underground comic book.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz grew up in rural Oklahoma, daughter of a landless farmer and half-Indian mother. Her paternal grandfather, a white settler, farmer, and veterinarian, had been a labor activist and Socialist in Oklahoma with the Industrial Workers of the World in the first two decades of the twentieth century. The stories of her grandfather inspired her to lifelong social justice activism.

På et møde i Chicago i USA i 1905 dannede over 200 socialister og fagforeningsfolk organisationen Verdens Industriarbejdere (Industrial Workers of the World, IWW). Et fagforbund baseret på det marxistiske princip om konflikt mellem klasserne og den nordamerikanske filosofi om faglig organisering på industriniveau. Dens medlemmer fik hurtigt øgenavnet Wobblies og de satte nu ind på at rekruttere ufaglærte og udbyttede emigranter, ikke-hvide, kvinder samt de emigrantarbejdere, der var udelukket fra de foreninger af faglærte arbejdere, som den traditionelle og chauvinistiske landsorganisation AFL organiserede.

The rise and fall of the libertarian movement in Chile is a facinating story. There is more to the story than mere historical interest, however. Chile is a country on the brink of development and hence is closer to a European country than to a truly underdeveloped nation. Chile is as urban as any developed country and even in 1900 about 20% of the population lived in cities, around the same percentage as Canada at that time. Population growth is low and vital statistics are at the developed level. Women have a more equal status with men than in any other Latin American country.

El ascenso y decadencia del movimiento libertario en Chile es una historia fascinante. Hay más para la historia que el simple interés histórico, sin embargo. Chile es un país al borde del desarrollo y por lo tanto está más cercano a un país europeo que para una nación verdaderamente subdesarrollada. Chile es tan urbano como cualquier país desarrollado y aun en 1900 cerca del 20 % de la población vivia en ciudades, alrededor del mismo porcentaje que Canadá en aquel entonces. El crecimiento demográfico es bajo y las estadísticas demográficas están en el nivel desarrollado. Las mujeres tienen un más estatus más igual con los hombres que en cualquier otro país Latinoamericano.