Black Chicago history: Anarchist and labor rights activist Lucy Parsons
From WBEZ Chicago
Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons 9 min 44 sec
Lucy Parsons, the “goddess of anarchy,” was a central figure in Chicago's labor movement.
From WBEZ Chicago
Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons 9 min 44 sec
Lucy Parsons, the “goddess of anarchy,” was a central figure in Chicago's labor movement.
from Center for a Stateless Society
by Eric Fleischmann
The Lucy Parsons Center—originally opened as the Red Book Store in 1969 in Central Square, Cambridge but later renamed after the famed anarcho-communist and labor-organizer—is a non-profit, independent, cooperative radical bookstore and activist community center located in Jamaica Plain, Boston. As they write on their website: for years, the Center…
From Ithaca dot com (Finger Lakes News)
Author Jacqueline Jones reflects on Lucy Parsons, the subject of her latest book
from Wear Your Voice
Lucy Parsons Has Something to Say about 2020
Described as “more dangerous than a thousand rioters”, Lucy Parsons’ writings and speeches were reflective of her time and continue to be relevant today. The summer of 2020 was ~eventful~ in terms of political focus on anarchists and anarchism. I rolled my eyes every time an American politician blamed anarchists for chaos, showing clearly how willfully ignorant they were about anarchism as a philosophy.