Wednesday, March 9, 2011

San Diego Troublemakers Go to School

San Diego Troublemakers Go to School

San Diego Troublemakers Go to School

by ROCKY NEPTUN on MARCH 9, 2011

in: EDUCATION, LABOR, ORGANIZING


In that town called San Diego when the workers try to talk,
The cops will smash them with a sap and tell them “take a walk”,
They throw them in a bull pen and they feed them rotten beans,
And they call that “law and order” in that city, so it seems.

From the July 11, 1912 edition of the IWW’s Little Red Songbook,
the first stanza of ”We’re Bound For San Diego”

It’s really hard to believe that San Diego has the largest amount of “troublemakers” in the U.S. but last Friday, over 250 activists and