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Triangle fire: then and now

March 24, 2011 By Gabe Falsetta

While walking through the Evergreen Cemetery recently, located in Ridgewood Brooklyn, I came across a section dedicated to eight unidentified young women who died in the Triangle Shirtwaist fire on March 25, 1911.

Have women come a long way? Yes and no

March 24, 2011 By Susan Webb

Young women talk about how they have benefited from the struggles of their mothers' and grandmothers' generation, and the new and old challenges they face today.

Labor stalwart Irene Hull dies at 98

March 24, 2011 By Tim Wheeler

Irene Hull, a beloved "tiny dynamo" fighter for trade union rights, world peace, equality, and socialism died on the first day of spring, March 20 in Seattle.

Triangle fire memorial draws parallels with today

March 22, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

WASHINGTON (PAI) - A half-day-long Capitol Hill commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire drew uncomfortable parallels with conditions facing workers today. The fire in Manhattan killed 146 young immigrant workers, almost...

Attacks on public workers put women in bulls’-eye

March 16, 2011 By Tim Wheeler

Women are calling Republican budget cuts and attacks on public employees a double-barreled "war on women."