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                  <b><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family:
                      BRADDON;"><i><a moz-do-not-send="true"
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                            hspace="20" width="525"></a>Bloody Thursday</i></span></b>
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                  Thursday, June 21st, in Cambridge [<a
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                  Bloody Thursday tells the story of how West Coast
                  dockworkers overcame huge obstacles to form a union.<br>
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                  Set in the midst of the Great Depression, the film
                  shows how longshoremen were fighting for their rights
                  at the same time that most of their families weren't
                  sure where their next meal would come from. The odds
                  were stacked against the longshoremen. <br>
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                  Mainstream newspaper publishers, fearful of
                  unionization efforts at their own papers, launched
                  brutal attacks against the dockworkers and drove
                  public sympathy against them. In addition, politicians
                  and the police openly used their resources to side
                  with the shipping companies against the striking
                  dockworkers. <br>
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                  On July 5, 1934 police killed two longshoremen at a
                  massive dockworker strike in San Francisco, a tragedy
                  known as <b>Bloody Thursday</b>. The tragic events of
                  Bloody Thursday turned public opinion against the
                  shipping companies and lead the citizens of San
                  Francisco and other west coast port towns to go on a
                  general strike in support of the dockworkers that lead
                  to the formation of the International Longshore and
                  Warehouse Union, now known worldwide as the ILWU. <br>
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                  <b>Bloody Thursday</b> tells the human stories of the
                  dockworkers who stood up against these odds and
                  changed the course of American labor history.<br>
                  <br>
                  "<i>This strike is the best thing that ever happened
                    to San Francisco. It's costing us money, certainly.
                    We have lost millions on the waterfront in the last
                    few months. But it's a good investment, a marvelous
                    investment. It's solving the labor problem for years
                    to come. Mark my words. When this nonsense is out of
                    the way and the men have been driven back to their
                    jobs, we won't have to worry about them anymore.
                    They'll have learned their lesson.</i>" ~William H.
                  Crocker, a prominent San Francisco banker <br>
                  <br>
                  <p><span><img alt=""
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                        align="left" height="240" hspace="10"
                        width="308">"<b><i>An Injury to One is an Injury
                          to All</i></b>" Rallying cry of the Wobblies
                      [IWW], and the name of a sculpture at the corner
                      of Mission & Steuart Streets, San Francisco,
                      where much of the violence took place.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
                  <br>
                  <p>"<i>We're not a democracy. It's a terrible
                      misunderstanding and a slander to the idea of
                      democracy to call us that. In reality, we're a
                      plutocracy: a government by the wealthy.</i>"
                    ~Ramsey Clark , former U.S. Attorney General<o:p></o:p></p>
                  <p>"<i>To destroy this invisible government, to
                      dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt
                      business and corrupt politics is the first task of
                      the statesmanship of the day</i>." ~Theodore
                    Roosevelt's 1912 Platform of the Progressive Party<br>
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                  243 Broadway, Cambridge - corner of Broadway and
                  Windsor,<br>
                  entrance on Windsor<br>
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                  Please join us for a stimulating night out; bring your
                  friends!<br>
                  free film, free refreshments, & free door prizes.<br>
                  [donations are accepted]<br>
                  <i><br>
                    "You can't legislate good will - that comes through
                    education.</i>" ~ Malcolm X<br>
                  <br>
                  <b>UPandOUT film series</b> - see <a
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                  Why should YOU care? It's YOUR money that pays for
                  US/Israeli wars - on Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran,
                  Palestine, Libya. Syria, Iran, So America, etc etc -
                  for billionaire bailouts, for ever more ubiquitous US
                  prisons, for the loss of liberty and civil rights... <br>
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