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Fellow Workers
''Fellow Workers'' is an album by American folksinger Utah Phillips and American singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco. It was released May 18, 1999, on Difranco's own Righteous Babe Records. ''Fellow Workers'' is DiFranco's and Phillip's second collaboration, following ''The Past Didn't Go Anywhere''. "Fellow workers!" is the phrase with which members of the Industrial Workers of the World traditionally begin their public addresses. Track listing #"Joe Hill" (instrumental) – 2:36 #"Stupid's Song" – 2:43 #"The Most Dangerous Woman" – 3:43 #"Stupid's Pledge" – 0:14 #"Direct Action" – 4:52 #"Pie in the Sky" – 3:29 #"Shoot or Stab Them" – 2:43 #"Lawrence" – 3:29 #"Bread and Roses" – 1:45 #"Why Come?" – 6:05 #"Unless You Are Free" – 0:22 #"I Will Not Obey" – 2:00 #"The Long Memory" – 5:33 #"The Silence That Is Me" – 0:41 #"Joe Hill" – 1:37 #"The Saw-Playing Musician" – 4:43 #"Dump the Bosses" – 1:14 #"The Internationale" – 2:48 Historical references Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Utah Phillips
Bruce Duncan "Utah" Phillips (May 15, 1935 – May 23, 2008) , KVMR, Nevada City, California, May 24, 2008. Retrieved 24 May 2008. was an American labor organizer, , storyteller and poet. He described the struggles of labor unions and the power of , self-identifying as an . He often promoted the |
Bread And Roses
"Bread and Roses" is a political slogan as well as the name of an associated poem and song. It originated from a speech given by American women's suffrage activist Helen Todd; a line in that speech about "bread for all, and roses too" inspired the title of the poem ''Bread and Roses'' by James Oppenheim. The poem was first published in ''The American Magazine'' in December 1911, with the attribution line "Bread for all, and Roses, too'—a slogan of the women in the West." The poem has been translated into other languages and has been set to music by at least three composers. The phrase is commonly associated with the textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts, between January and March 1912, now often referred to as the "Bread and Roses strike". The slogan pairing bread and roses, appealing for both fair wages and dignified conditions, found resonance as transcending "the sometimes tedious struggles for marginal economic advances" in the "light of labor struggles as based on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Utah Phillips Albums
Utah ( , ) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. Utah is a landlocked U.S. state bordered to its east by Colorado, to its northeast by Wyoming, to its north by Idaho, to its south by Arizona, and to its west by Nevada. Utah also touches a corner of New Mexico in the southeast. Of the fifty U.S. states, Utah is the 13th-largest by area; with a population over three million, it is the 30th-most-populous and 11th-least-densely populated. Urban development is mostly concentrated in two areas: the Wasatch Front in the north-central part of the state, which is home to roughly two-thirds of the population and includes the capital city, Salt Lake City; and Washington County in the southwest, with more than 180,000 residents. Most of the western half of Utah lies in the Great Basin. Utah has been inhabited for thousands of years by various indigenous groups such as the ancient Puebloans, Navajo and Ute. The Spanish were the first Eu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
