Clara Lemlich Awards
Every year Labor Arts and the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Committee host an event a wonderful event, honoring lifetime women activists. Women who keep fighting. The award is named for Clara Lemlich, a young Ukranian Jew who was a leader of the Uprising of 20,000, the massive strike of shirtwaist workers in New York's garment industry in 1909. Clara's daughter and grandson come to the party, and so do many others. It's tonight at the Museum of the City of New York at 6:30.
We look for hope though we sometimes forget what hope looks like and every year at the Clara Lemlich awards every year when we honor women who continue to fight for what it is they want to change women who won't give up who call us at ll o'clock on Sunday night even though they're 97 and should probably be in bed women who want to leave this earth knowing they did all they could and I mean all they could