I’ve been fascinated by my friend Jenn Pascoe’s quietly growing collection of name stamps from the bottoms of paper bags. She keeps a Flickr set of these images, right now still a self-defined work in progress. I like these small gestures at some sort of individual humanity inside the industrial manufacturing machine. Anyone out there know more about the story behind these stamps?
PM Press and Working Class History are fundraising to launch a new graphic novel about the West Virginia Mine Wars!
“We were still educating. We were showing our kids how to stand up for themselves to a bully.”
If “the strike was broken” every time you read about a worker’s struggle that happened on the soil you’re standing on, you might begin to think that every strike has always been broken, and the horizon of collective action and potential for true solidarity might seem like an ideological fantasy…
The West Virginia Mine Wars Museum just dropped this video documenting their new project creating two public monuments to the Battle of Blair Mountain!
Because I print on paper bags, I also have a collection!!