Last Writes: BLACK ROSE LECTURES-FALL SERIES 1980

Sept. 26: Ken Geyser-'Toxic Wastes: A Hidden Legacy'

Oct 31: Ed Hedemann-'Anarchism and Non-Violence'

Nov. 7: Myrna Breitbart-'Streetwork: Liberating Approaches to Urban Environmental Education'

Nov. 21: Howard Zinn-'An Anarchist View of American History'

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* Some friends of Black Rose have opened a press and we would like our readers to know about it. Whetstone Press is located at 41 Bristol Street, Boston, MA 02118, telephone 338-8822. They do letterpress printing and graphic design and can prepare bumper stickers, stationery, and other items. They are also ready to take on the design and production of pamphlets up to 100 pages.

* An important new film will debut in Boston this fall. Free Voice of Labor-The Jewish Anarchists, made by Pacific Street Films, will be shown as part of the Center Screen Series at the Carpenter Center at Harvard University Saturday and Sunday nights, October 4-5 and 11-12. The film, which runs one hour, paints a dramatic portrait of immigrant life in the United States as seen through the eyes of those sweat shop workers who made up the mass of the Jewish anarchist movement. Through interviews with actual participants in the Jewish anarchist movement and by weaving together stills, newsreel footage, selections from old motion pictures, Yiddish songs and poems of work and political struggle, Free Voice of Labor documents the contributions of the Jewish anarchists to the fledgling U.S. labor movement and the developing Yiddish culture.

* Mollie Steimer, one of the last of the old-time anarchists with an international reputation, died in Cuernavaca, Mexico, on July 23, 1980. She was 82 years old and had been a close friend of Emma Goldman, Alexander Berkman, Nestor Makhno, Voline, and many other well known figures in the movement. Deported from the United States after the First World War, she was deported in turn from Soviet Russia in 1923 and spent the rest of her life as a political exile in Western Europe and Mexico. Paul Avrich is writing a full length obituary of our late comrade.