Union Communication Services, Inc., points out that today is the anniversary of the 1993 lockout in Decatur, IL, as told in our book, Staley: The Fight for a New American Labor Movement.

They also mention that it is the day “Emma Goldman, women’s rights activist and radical, born in Lithuania. She came to the U.S. at age 17 – 1869.” Our two-volume documentary history on Emma Goldman picks up her life years later as she begins her association with the international anarchist movement.

Via AFL-CIO.