Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition

05/14/2026

On this day in Labor History, Trailblazer died on May 14, 1965.

https://francesperkinscenter.org/learn/her-life/

05/09/2026

**𝑼𝒑𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑬𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝑹𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓**
𝑻𝒖𝒆𝒔𝒅𝒂𝒚, 𝑴𝒂𝒚 12
𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑾𝒐𝒓𝒌𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝑪𝒊𝒓𝒄𝒍𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑹𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑻𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒆 𝑭𝒊𝒓𝒆 𝑪𝒐𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑷𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒂 𝑽𝒊𝒓𝒕𝒖𝒂𝒍 𝑹𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝑻𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆: 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑰𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝑾𝒐𝒓𝒌𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝑶𝒓𝒅𝒆𝒓- 𝑭𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝑷𝒐𝒑𝒖𝒍𝒂𝒓 𝑭𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝑪𝒐𝒍𝒅 𝑾𝒂𝒓
𝑴𝒂𝒚 12 @ 7:00 𝒑𝒎 – 8:00 𝒑𝒎 𝑬𝑫𝑻
Join Dr. Elissa Sampson, co-editor of From Popular Front to Cold War: The In*******al Left and the International Workers Order, 1930–1954, book contributor Annie Cohen, and the Workers Circle’s Anthony Russell for an evening of discussion and learn why the IWO’s history and legacy remain compelling for all of us who wish to build “a better and more beautiful world for everyone” (a shenere un besere velt far ale).
Registration: https://www.circle.org/events/iwo-popular-front-to-cold-war

05/01/2026

May Day | 2026
If you find yourself around Washington Sq. Park around 4pm....
If you have not yet visited the Triangle Fire Memorial, it is just a couple of blocks away.

04/30/2026

Heading into May Day tomorrow, aka 𝑰𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝑾𝒐𝒓𝒌𝒆𝒓𝒔’ 𝑫𝒂𝒚, we share this video by Interns of Daniel Levinson Wilk,
Professor of American History | Fashion Institute of Technology: Saira Velez, host, producer and editor & Akira Guevara, researcher and videographer. Thank you for sharing.
Stop by and visit the Triangle Fire Memorial on the building where the fire took place back in 1911. The Brown Building is located at 23–29 Washington Place, between Greene Street and Washington Square East in Greenwich Village. The building is part of the New York University campus.

04/27/2026

The Municipal Art Society of New York Jane's Walk
The Triangle Fire Memorial
Led By Andi Sosin & Joel Sosinsky
Meet at the Triangle Fire Memorial at the intersection of Washington Place and Greene Street in Greenwich Village.
Saturday, May 2, 2026
11:00 AM | 30 minutes
RSVP: https://www.mas.org/events/the-triangle-fire-memorial-2/
or
1:00 PM | 30 minutes
https://www.mas.org/events/the-triangle-fire-memorial-3/

04/27/2026

Please join us for the Sixteenth Annual 𝑪𝒍𝒂𝒓𝒂 𝑳𝒆𝒎𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝑨𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒔

Honoring unsung activists, women who have been working for the larger good all their lives, in the tradition of those who sparked so many reforms in the aftermath of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

This year we honor worker organizer Scotty Embree, multifaceted artist and educator Shirley Kaplan, Harlem literacy guru Dawn Harris-Martine, community activist Dana Minaya, and migrant rights leader Eva Richter.

𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝟒, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔
𝟔-𝟕𝐩𝐦
𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠

𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐘𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐄𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞
𝟐 𝐖𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝟔𝟒𝐭𝐡 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐭
𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐘𝐨𝐫𝐤, 𝐍𝐘 𝟏𝟎𝟎𝟐𝟑 (𝐈𝐧 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐝)

Presented by Labor Arts and the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition with the New York Ethical Culture New York Society for Ethical Culture

More info and RSVP link: https://www.laborarts.org/lemlich/2025/

04/17/2026

1905: In one of the most controversial decisions in the Supreme Court's history, Lochner v. New York, the Court holds that a law limiting working hours for New York bakery workers is unconstitutional.

04/05/2026

04/05/2026

Today in Labor History April 5, 2010: Twenty-nine coal miners were killed in an explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia. In 2015, Former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship was convicted of a misdemeanor for conspiring to willfully violate safety standards and was sentenced to one year in prison. He was found not guilty of charges of securities fraud and making false statements. Investigators also found that the U.S. Department of Labor and its Mine Safety and Health Administration was guilty of failing to act decisively, even after Massey was issued 515 citations for safety violations at the Upper Big Branch mine in 2009, prior to the deadly explosion.

So, the U.S. Dept of Labor, back when the U.S. staffed and funded its regulatory agencies, allowed a murderous boss to get away with 515 safety violations, resulting in the deaths of 29 miners, without any consequences for its bosses. And the courts gave the murderous CEO of Massey Energy a year in a Country Club prison for those same 29 worker deaths. Historically, mining (including coal, copper, gold, etc) has been one of the deadliest industries on the planet for workers, with thousands of deaths, and tens of thousands of injuries, in and around the pits, and tens of thousands of deaths from chronic lung ailments. It has also been one of the most oppressive for workers and one of the most violent in terms of the capitalist response to labor organizing, with hundreds of striking miners murdered in the U.S., alone.

To read more about mine worker organizing read here:

https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/12/24/the-calumet-massacre/
https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/20/the-ludlow-massacre/
https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/14/the-battle-of-blair-mountain/

03/26/2026

Thank you New York Central Labor Council for everything you do to commemorate the victims of the Triangle Fire.

03/25/2026

Thank you for joining us.