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A virtual exhibit of items illustrating the tragedy that had a huge impact on workplace regulations won an award from the American Industrial Hygiene Association. 

In a book whose release is timed to coincide with the March 25 anniversary of the NYC blaze that killed 146 garment workers, Martin Abramowitz describes searching for painful truth

On 28 February 1909, socialist women in the USA held their first national Women's Day, staging marches and meetings across America to demand political rights for working women. The next year, Clara Zetkin proposed to the International Congress of Socialist Women that one day each year be marked as a Working Women's Day. The Congress agreed that on this day, socialists in all countries should hold big events, involving men and women in demanding improvements in the lives of working wome...

Created by members of the Athens hardcore punk band Beat Up, Winterville Road concert venue Red Line puts on outdoor shows open to all ages.

100 years since tragic blaze killed 146 garment workers— Triangle Fire on PBS’s “American Experience”: compelling documentary marred by liberal perspective By Charles Bogle 
| Dateline: 12 March 2011 • THIS IS A REPOST  Directed by Jamila Wignot, written by Mark Zwonitzer March 25 marks the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire in New York City’s Greenwich Village, which took the lives of 146 workers, 122 of whom were women and the children—some as young as ...

Mar 31, 2021 8:50 PM EDT On the corner of Washington Place and Greene Street, in New York City’s Greenwich Village, is a bronze plaque affixed to the Neo-Renaissance façade of the Brown Building—now part of New York University. The building, it says, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and as a National Historical Landmark. Only 110 years ago, this now-vertical classroom and office building was once the site of the Triangle Shirtwaist Facto...

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2021 International Women’s Day Celebrating Achievements IWD News: Today is International Women’s Day (IWD) – a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity. Significant activity is witnessed worldwide as groups come together to celebrate women’s achievements or rally for women’s equality.  Marked annually March 8, IWD is one of the most important days of the year to: Celeb...