Fred Harper's Art

champagnecandy:

Woody Guthrie, Ludlow Massacre. 

Via Erik Loomis: 

On April 20, 1914, members of the Colorado National Guard, along with a strikebreaking militia employed by the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company, a corporation owned by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., opened fire on a tent camp of strikers at Ludlow, in the coal country of southern Colorado, north of Trinidad. At least 19 people died in the tent camp that day, mostly wives and children of the strikers.

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Eventually, conditions for miners improved, but all you can say about Ludlow is that it was one event that helped move public opinion to a point that the nation moved to allow working-class people to live decent lives. Unfortunately, we are tearing this down in the early 21st century.

Read his whole post. This is what we’re up against.