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Days later, the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire in New York killed 146 garment workers, most of them young immigrant women, and the day became bound up with the fight for workers' safety and dignity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn March 8, 1917, women textile workers in Petrograd walked off their jobs and marched for bread and peace, calling on men in other factories to join them. Their strike spread across the city within days and grew into the February Revolution, which brought down the Russian tsar. The revolutionary government that followed made March 8 an official holiday. Socialist and liberated nations from China and Vietnam to Cuba, Mozambique, and Burkina Faso later embraced the day as part of their commitment to women's emancipation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eToday International Women's Day is often reduced to marketing campaigns and celebrations of individual success. Its true legacy belongs to working women, peasant women, and the women of colonized and oppressed nations who have fought on the front lines of every liberation struggle. They are the garment workers and the textile strikers, the guerrilla fighters of Vietnam, Algeria, and Guinea-Bissau, the domestic workers and nurses of today. To honor that legacy is to recommit to the struggle against patriarchy, capitalism, and imperialism together, because none of them can be defeated alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1 print shipped in a rigid mailer (made from recycled cardstock)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eprinted on acid-free, premium matte-photo paper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"a-size-large a-spacing-none\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-size-large product-title-word-break\" id=\"productTitle\"\u003epaper weight + thickness: 250\/m² \/ 66lbs \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-size-large product-title-word-break\"\u003e*frame not included*\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Color Collective Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41670691094699,"sku":"","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0277\/7458\/2882\/products\/IWD11x17SQUAREPosterFrameMockUp.jpg?v=1696978680"},{"product_id":"may-day-international-workers-day","title":"May Day – International Workers Day","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMay Day, International Workers' Day, was born in the United States in the struggle for the eight-hour day. On May 1, 1886, hundreds of thousands of workers across the country walked off their jobs in a national strike to demand eight hours for work, eight hours for rest, and eight hours for what we will. Chicago was the center of the movement. On May 3, police killed striking workers at the McCormick Reaper Works, and the next day, at a protest rally in Haymarket Square, a bomb was thrown and police opened fire on the crowd. In a trial that became a byword for injustice, eight anarchist labor organizers were convicted with no evidence tying them to the bomb, and four were hanged in 1887.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Haymarket martyrs became symbols of the international workers' movement. In 1889 the Second International, meeting in Paris, declared May 1 a day of international working-class struggle in their honor. Ever since, May Day has been marked by strikes, marches, and celebrations in nearly every country on earth. In the United States, the government moved to erase the holiday's radical roots, establishing a separate Labor Day in September and later promoting May 1 as \"Loyalty Day\" at the height of the Red Scare. Yet May Day has returned again and again. On May 1, 2006, millions of immigrant workers and their allies, with one of the largest marches in Los Angeles, walked off the job in a Day Without Immigrants.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMay Day honors the truth that the working class produces the world's wealth and that every gain workers have won, from the weekend and the minimum wage to the right to organize, was won through struggle. It is a day for workers of every nation, race, gender, and trade to stand together across the borders meant to divide them. Its call remains as urgent as ever: workers of the world, unite.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e1 print shipped in a rigid mailer (made from recycled cardstock)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eprinted on acid-free, premium matte-photo paper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"a-size-large a-spacing-none\"\u003e\u003cspan id=\"productTitle\" class=\"a-size-large product-title-word-break\"\u003epaper weight + thickness: 250\/m² \/ 66lbs \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-size-large product-title-word-break\"\u003e*frame not included*\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Color Collective Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41817077973163,"sku":"","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0277\/7458\/2882\/products\/IWW11x17SQUAREPosterFrameMockUp.jpg?v=1696978581"},{"product_id":"international-day-of-peasant-struggles","title":"International Day of Peasant Struggles","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvery April 17, farmers, landless workers, fisherfolk, and rural communities around the world mark the International Day of Peasant Struggles. The date commemorates the Eldorado dos Carajás massacre of April 17, 1996. That day, in the Brazilian state of Pará, military police opened fire on members of the Landless Workers' Movement, the MST, who were marching and blocking a highway to demand land reform, and nineteen landless workers were killed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat same year La Vía Campesina, the international peasant movement that now unites organizations from dozens of countries, declared the date a day of global struggle. Vía Campesina also put forward the principle of food sovereignty: the right of peoples to control their own land, seeds, water, and food systems, instead of leaving them to agribusiness corporations and the dictates of global markets. The day carries forward a long history in which the peasantry has been a central force in revolutionary change, from Emiliano Zapata's call for land and liberty in Mexico to the peasant armies of the Chinese and Vietnamese revolutions, the land reforms of revolutionary Cuba, and the African liberation movements that organized in the countryside. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePeasant resistance continues today, against land grabs, enclosure, debt, pesticides, and the displacement of rural people to make way for plantations, mines, and dams. Its recent victories include the farmers' movement in India, which in 2021 forced the government to repeal laws that would have handed agriculture to corporate control, and the United Nations' adoption of the Declaration on the Rights of Peasants in 2018. The International Day of Peasant Struggles honors those who feed the world and are so often killed for demanding the land, and it affirms that there is no liberation without the land and no future without those who work it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e1 print shipped in a rigid mailer (made from recycled cardstock)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eprinted on acid-free, premium matte-photo paper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"a-size-large a-spacing-none\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-size-large product-title-word-break\" id=\"productTitle\"\u003epaper weight + thickness: 250\/m² \/ 66lbs \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-size-large product-title-word-break\"\u003e*frame not included*\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Color Collective Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42681876906155,"sku":"","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0277\/7458\/2882\/files\/111x17SQUAREPosterFrameMockUp_ab7626fe-c75a-4a87-a22a-46f85b335d29.jpg?v=1696978698"},{"product_id":"african-liberation-day","title":"African Liberation Day Poster: Pan-African, Anti-Colonial, African Unity (Art Print)","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfrican Liberation Day honors the long struggle of African peoples to free the continent from colonialism, neocolonialism, and imperialism, and to build a united and liberated Africa. Its roots go back to April 15, 1958, when Kwame Nkrumah hosted the Conference of Independent African States in Accra. The eight independent nations that gathered there declared African Freedom Day to mark the progress of the liberation movement and the resolve of the continent's peoples to free themselves from foreign domination. On May 25, 1963, thirty-two independent African states met in Addis Ababa to found the Organization of African Unity. They set up a Liberation Committee to support the armed struggles still being waged against colonial and white-minority rule, and the day was renamed African Liberation Day.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the years that followed, African Liberation Day became a day of solidarity with the movements fighting for the continent's freedom: the PAIGC in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde, FRELIMO in Mozambique, the MPLA in Angola, ZANU and ZAPU in Zimbabwe, SWAPO in Namibia, and the ANC and Pan Africanist Congress in South Africa. The day crossed the Atlantic as well. In 1972 the African Liberation Support Committee organized demonstrations across the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean, bringing tens of thousands of people into the streets in solidarity with African liberation. Pan-African organizations such as the All-African People's Revolutionary Party have marked the day ever since.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe struggle African Liberation Day commemorates is not over. Formal independence has too often been followed by neocolonialism, as Nkrumah warned: control through debt, foreign military bases, multinational corporations, and the extraction of the continent's wealth. From the people of Western Sahara still fighting for their independence to the movements across the Sahel and the Congo demanding control of their own resources, African peoples continue to resist. African Liberation Day is a call to complete the work begun by the liberation movements: a free, united, and socialist Africa, and the liberation of African people everywhere.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Color Collective Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42707372212395,"sku":"","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0277\/7458\/2882\/files\/africanliberationdayframedprint.jpg?v=1696985876"},{"product_id":"black-august","title":"Black August","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlack August is a month of remembrance, study, discipline, and resistance. It began inside California's prisons in the late 1970s, when incarcerated members of the Black liberation movement set aside August to honor their fallen comrades. The month centers on George Jackson, the revolutionary writer and theorist of Soledad Brother and Blood in My Eye, who was killed by guards at San Quentin on August 21, 1971. It also honors his younger brother Jonathan, killed on August 7, 1970, during his armed attempt to free political prisoners at the Marin County courthouse, alongside William Christmas and James McClain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Its founders also honored Khatari Gaulden, who died at San Quentin in 1978 after being denied proper medical care. In their memory, participants fast, refuse distractions, train their bodies, and commit to political education, sharpening themselves for the long struggle ahead. Black August also draws on a long history of resistance that falls within the month. That history includes the ceremony at Bois Caïman that sparked the Haitian Revolution, Nat Turner's rebellion, Gabriel Prosser's planned uprising in Virginia, the birth of Marcus Garvey, the Watts rebellion, and the 1978 police assault on MOVE in Philadelphia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the 1990s, the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement carried the tradition into culture through the Black August Hip Hop Project, linking artists in the United States, Cuba, and South Africa in support of political prisoners and exiles like Assata Shakur. Black August asks more than remembrance. 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