WBAI Radio’s Building Bridges:

Your Community & Labor Report – National Edition

Produced & Hosted by Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash

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A WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH SPECIAL



LUCY ELLA GONZALES PARSONS

American Revolutionary: circa 1853-1942




"more dangerous than a thousand rioters."

- The Chicago Police Department

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Join Melody Cooper, actress and award winning playwright of Day of Reckoning, Freedome Bradley and Michael Kennealy along with director for MultiStages production of Day of Reckoning as we explore the politics, civil rights, worker's rights, and a passionate interracial marriage in the 1800s.




Building Bridges presents the remarkable life of Lucy Parsons, an African, Native and Mexican-American, revolutionary, anarchist, labor activist from the late nineteenth and 20th century. Her politically-active life, as a civil rights and worker's rights advocate spans two centuries.



Lucy Parsons, never faltered in her political and labor activism, even after her husband Albert was hung along with seven other anarchists after the Haymarket riots in Chicago. She led tens of thousands of workers into the streets in mass protests across the country. Defying both racial and genderdiscrimination, she was at the forefront of movements for social

justice her entire life.



Lucy Parson's fiery, powerful orations that invoked fear inauthority nationwide will be brought to life through playwright Melody Cooper’s interpretation and dramatic readings. As well as breeding new

life into this woman who sparked rebellion and discontent among poor and exploited workers she will offer historical analysis as to why Lucy Parsons,

active in the fight against oppression until her death at the age of 89, is as necessary today as she ever was.

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Building Bridges is regularly broadcast over WBAI, 99.5 FM in the N.Y.C

Metropolitan area on Mondays from 7-8pm EST and streamed at http://www.2600.com/offthehook/hot2.ram

for more information email knash@igc.org