[news] "A Most Dangerous Woman" - The Legacy of Anarchist & Activist Emma Goldman

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"A Most Dangerous Woman" Emma Goldman Dr. Barry Pateman - Associate Editor, The Emma Goldman Papers, University of California, Berkeley Saturday June 11, 2005 12:45 - 1:30 PM Room 1600, Simon Fraser University Harbour Centre In association with The IWW - The First 100 Years and Thinking Through Action Conferences "EMMA GOLDMAN (1869-1940) stands as a major figure in the history of American radicalism and feminism. An influential and well-known anarchist of her day, Goldman was an early advocate of free speech, birth control, women's equality and independence, union organization, and the eight-hour work day. Her criticism of mandatory conscription of young men into the military during World War I led to a two-year imprisonment, followed by her deportation in 1919. For the rest of her life until her death in 1940, she continued to participate in the social and political movements of her age, from the Russian Revolution to the Spanish Civil War."

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