Volunteer with Remember The Triangle Fire Coalition

Performance artist Annie Lanzillotto sent the following interesting announcement and appeal. As an ILGWU baby, I also feel strongly that this is an important commemoration.

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Remember The Triangle Fire Coalition Get involved in this living history project:

• Join the Facebook group: Remember The Triangle Fire.
• Sign your organization on as a participating group.
• Attend the brainstorm launch this March at The Judson Church.
• To donate food, drink, cash or skills for the event, contact: ruth@streetpictures.com
  

We are organizing a launch for the creation of a fitting memorial for the March 25, 2011 centennial of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire victims. We aim to get 146 organizations involved, one for each of the folks who perished. The Triangle Fire is very relevant today in terms of labor safety; its history is Jewish and Italian immigrant women who sewed in the sweatshop and got locked in fire.

Immediately we seek organizations to sign onto the project for our launch at The Judson Church, NYC this March (date and time TBA). This will be a gathering of the minds, where New Yorkers and organizations come together creatively to plan for the future. Participating organizations already include: CityLore, Gotham Center, MALIA Collective of Italian American Women, Calandra Institute for Italian American Studies (CUNY), The Reliquary Museum, Street Cry Productions. We are actors, agitators, artists, educators, descendants of the victims, writers, filmmakers, historians, organizers, and photographers joined together to honor the memory of the victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of 1911 and to keep the spirit of their sacrifice alive. Of the 146 deaths, three sets of sisters died in the fire: Bettina and Frances Miale, Lucia and Rosaria Maltese, and Sara and Tessie Saracino. Their deaths ignited the labor movement and fire safety laws. The disastrous factory fire led to some of the first city, state, and federal laws dealing with workers safety and the growth of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. The "Factory Investigating Commission" was formed pushing through sweeping labor and safety laws that would transform the workplace. The new laws focused on protecting human beings over buildings. We are working toward the Centenary Memorial event March 2011.

The Triangle Fire Remembrance Coalition
Facebook Group: Remember The Triangle Fire
Street Pictures

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