Emma Goldman: Still too hot to handle? UC Berkeley set to pull plug on anarchist’s archive

[ashling]

http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/10/17/emma-goldman-still-too-hot-to-handle-u-c-berkeley-set-to-pull-plug-on-anarchists-archive/

As UC Berkeley celebrates the 50th anniversary of the free speech movement this month, a long-simmering feud over funding for the Emma Goldman Papers — an archival project dedicated to the life and work of the iconic Jewish radical and free speech advocate — is coming to a head.

After 34 years of UC Berkeley affiliation, and more than $1.2 million of funding spread across the decades, the project could be reaching the end of the line.

The university has informed the project’s editor and director, Candace Falk, that her employment will terminate at the end of October due to lack of funding. That decision, which the university’s chancellor has deemed final, could effectively shut down the Emma Goldman Papers Project, which has been housed on or near the UC Berkeley campus since its inception.

[pansypoo53219]

1. MOTHER JONES! its been ages since i saw her name.

[jtuck004]

2. Mary Harris "Mother" Jones (1837[1][2] – 30 November 1930) was an Irish-American schoolteacher and

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dressmaker who became a prominent labor and community organizer. She then helped coordinate major strikes and cofounded the Industrial Workers of the World.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Harris_Jones

And this

"The Autobiography of Mother Jones (1925)."

is an excellent book, about the history of when they realized that freedom, especially from the wealthy, isn't free, or bloodless.

btw: She is one of my heroes. I think her stories ought to be told to children, especially about the times when she put the injured and hungry kids of her time on display to shame people into doing something about it.

[jtuck004]

4. "In 1906, Goldman decided to start a publication of her own,...Mother Earth..."

In 1906, Goldman decided to start a publication of her own, "a place of expression for the young idealists in arts and letters".[76] Mother Earth was staffed by a cadre of radical activists, including Hippolyte Havel, Max Baginski, and Leonard Abbott. In addition to publishing original works by its editors and anarchists around the world, Mother Earth reprinted selections from a variety of writers. These included the French philosopher Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Russian anarchist Peter Kropotkin, German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, and British writer Mary Wollstonecraft. Goldman wrote frequently about anarchism, politics, labor issues, atheism, sexuality, and feminism.[77][78]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Harris_Jones#References

[LuvNewcastle]

3. I hope they're able to finish the project and I hope

that the information is distributed to a wide audience, not just academics. Emma Goldman was a great woman, and I hope that she isn't forgotten.