Bread and Roses
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| Location | Portland, Oregon, United States |
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| Introduction | We are a feminist news and public affairs show that airs on Friday nights on 90.7 FM in the Portland, OR area. It's also streamed online live at www.kboo.fm. Our show has been going strong on KBOO community radio for almost 40 years! Here's a little history about where we got our name: In 1912 Lawrence, Massachusetts became the focus of international attention as the scene of one of the landmark events in American labor history. When a state law reduced the work week from 56 to 54 hours, the mills cut the workers’ pay. Averaging only $8.76 a week, most of Lawrence’s 30,000 textile workers walked off the job, and stayed out for nine weeks in a harsh winter. The strike was remarkable for the cooperation among immigrant workers, for the role of women, and for the strikers’ practice of expressing themselves in song. Some women strikers reportedly carried banners proclaiming “We want bread, and roses, too”, symbolizing their fight for both subsistence and dignity. Thus the name, the “Bread and Roses Strike”. |