Heads Up, Sundance now. 9:10pm CST, Documentary, Injury to One!

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Everyone who has Sundance needs to check in on this now. You are going to love it.

"Lynching of 1917 IWW Union organizer in Butte, MT and juxtaposes it with the eviromental lynching of the area" 2003.

On edit, birth of the "Wobblies", now back to the program.

Just felt it important enough to check out for a minute and give a heads up to all my compadres here.

See ya later.

Enjoy!

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1. I'm watching

Thanks

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2. So what did you think?

Pretty amazing film, we thought. Hard to believe 101 years.

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3. It can't happen here!

The weathered epitath on Frank Little's grave in Mountain View Cemetery in Butte reads "Slain for Organizing and Inspiring His Fellow Men."

Frank Little came to Butte to persuade miners to join the One Big Union, the Industrial Workers of the World.

Little gave public speeches telling the miners that the Great War in Europe was a conflict that should be left to the capitalists who started it to finish. Workers, he argued, had more in common with each other, regardless of their nationality.

These were not tolerant times in Montana and Little had picked the wrong time and place to incite dissent and to encourage what the Company- backed newspapers called acts of sedition.

In the middle of the night on August 1, 1917, six men, identifying themselves as officers, abducted Little from his boarding house room. They beat him, dragged him behind a car, and finally hung him from a train trestle on city's edge. No one was ever convicted of his murder.



A procession of thousands followed his coffin as thousands more lined the streets to show their solidarity. While few workers subscribed to Little's radical message, all were uniformly outraged at the way the messenger was so brutally silenced.
http://www.butteamerica.com/flit.htm

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4. Pretty amazing piece of film. I just wish so many more could see it.

8,000 in the street for the funeral, in Butte, Montana. Just amazing where we are today. 1917 to 2004 going into 2005. Just amazingly frightening.