In this episode we welcome “Goddess of Anarchy,” Lucy Parsons into our coven. Born into slavery at the tail end of the American civil war, Lucy fought oppression at every turn, quickly becoming one of the most feared radical voices in America, and was thought to be "more dangerous than 1000 rioters."She co-founded the Chicago Working Women's Union, led 400,000 people in the first ever May-day parade, spoke to crowds of thousands, and understood intersectionality before we had a word for it. After her husband was executed following the Haymarket affair, she got louder; traveling the world giving anarchist speeches, helping found the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) in 1905, and always publishing her writing for the masses. After her death in 1942 (by mysterious house fire), the majority of her later works conveniently vanished...Sources:https://wams.nyhistory.org/industry-and-empire/labor-and-industry/lucy-parsons/https://shoeleatherhistoryproject.com/2020/06/27/happy-birthday-lucy-parsons/https://aas.princeton.edu/news/radical-existence-lucy-parsons-goddess-anarchyhttps://archive.iww.org/history/biography/LucyParsons/1/https://youtu.be/Ye7h0W4K_gU?si=VQM0YLBbVhJS6NMXhttps://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5009/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Parsonshttps://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/lucy-e-parsons-an-interview-with-lucy-parsons-on-the-prospects-for-anarchism-in-americahttps://www.thenation.com/article/archive/more-dangerous-than-a-thousand-rioters-the-revolutionary-life-of-lucy-parsons/

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