Our two performances are this week! Come picket and dance in the streets with us!
WHAT: OAKLAND 1946! A theatrical reenactment of the 1946 Oakland General Strike
WHERE: Where it actually happened, in Latham Square in downtown Oakland (where Broadway meets Telegraph at 16th St.)
WHEN: Two performances -- Friday, Dec. 5, at 8pm (during Art Murmur) and Sunday, Dec. 7, at 2pm. Audience participation encouraged. Free to the public.
WHY? Because your voice is part of the history, activism, and art of our times.
What's the 1946 Oakland General Strike? Well, it was a public show of solidarity with striking department-store workers that rapidly evolved into a remarkable experience of community activism. In December of 1946, more than 100,000 Oakland workers in all industries struck for three days to protest poor job conditions, low wages, and anti-worker actions by the city and police. Oakland residents talked and marched with neighbors and strangers, enjoyed free food, danced to jukebox tunes in the streets, and came together as working people to demand respect during a crucial moment in U.S. history. It was also the last general strike in U.S. history to this date.
What's a theatrical reenactment? It is what you make it! We have created a street-theater play about the strike, and we need you there to be a part of it. Come learn about local radical history, march and dance and picket with us, and meet present-day workers who are fighting for a fair shake in Oakland right now.
Spread the word. Ask questions. Start the conversation. Contact:
oakland1946@gmail.com
WHY? Because your voice is part of the history, activism, and art of our times.
What's the 1946 Oakland General Strike? Well, it was a public show of solidarity with striking department-store workers that rapidly evolved into a remarkable experience of community activism. In December of 1946, more than 100,000 Oakland workers in all industries struck for three days to protest poor job conditions, low wages, and anti-worker actions by the city and police. Oakland residents talked and marched with neighbors and strangers, enjoyed free food, danced to jukebox tunes in the streets, and came together as working people to demand respect during a crucial moment in U.S. history. It was also the last general strike in U.S. history to this date.
What's a theatrical reenactment? It is what you make it! We have created a street-theater play about the strike, and we need you there to be a part of it. Come learn about local radical history, march and dance and picket with us, and meet present-day workers who are fighting for a fair shake in Oakland right now.
Spread the word. Ask questions. Start the conversation. Contact:
oakland1946@gmail.com
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