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Stargleamer

(1,989 posts) Sat May 14, 2016, 12:58 PM May 2016

for my 1,000th post - Rebel Girl by Joe Hill

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Joe Hill was murdered just over 100 years ago. He wrote this song about Elizabeth Gurley Flynn.

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for my 1,000th post - Rebel Girl by Joe Hill (Original Post) Stargleamer May 2016 OP

I heard Utah Phillips marybourg May 2016 #1

marybourg

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1. I heard Utah Phillips

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Sat May 14, 2016, 02:37 PM

May 2016

sing this, not long before his death, on the 75th anniversary of Joe Hill's murder. We gathered in a park near the former site of the prison (Sugar Hill?) where he was shot. Many other now-long-gone notables participated, including Earl Robinson and Pete Seeger.

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