"The IWW and the Spokane Free Speech Fight" NW Book Tour, January 13-16

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NW Book Tour: John Duda, "The IWW and the Spokane Free Speech Fight" January 12-16, 2010 Published to coincide with the 100th Anniversary of the Spokane Free Speech Fight, which began in November of 1909, Wanted: Men to Fill the Jails of Spokane! tells the story of one of the first of the Industrial Workers of the World's famous "free speech fights." Through newspaper articles, dispatches from the scene of the fight, and personal recollections, the voices of the men (and women!) who filled the prisons of Spokane, Washington in the name of free speech and the One Big Union are brought back into print. Admission is free at all events. * Olympia Wednesday, January 13, 6pm Orca Books ( http://orcabooks.com/ ) 509 E. 4th Ave, Olympia, WA 98502 *Seattle Thursday, January 14 3:30pm-5:00pm University Bookstore ( http://www.bookstore.washington.edu/ ) 4326 University Way N.E., Seattle, WA 98105 7pm-9pm Cascade People's Center, 309 Pontius Avenue North, Seattle, WA 98109-5421 *Spokane Saturday, January 16, 3pm Downtown Spokane Public Library, Room A 906 West Main Avenue, Spokane, WA 99201 (corner Lincoln St. and Main Ave.) About the editor: John Duda is a founding member of Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse, a Baltimore worker's collective affiliated with the IWW, and an activist-scholar of social movements and self-organization. For more info contact: nwcommo...@gmail.com

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