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The latest news from the Emma Goldman Papers Project is here! Help keep this resource available to researchers by donating before 10/31.

Dear Emmassaries,

Denial and suppression of women’s voices—be it the suffering of a single woman or the cry of all women against injustice—has taken many forms throughout history. Do not let Emma’s voice be suppressed. Please give what you can to prevent the October 31 termination by UC Berkeley of the Emma Goldman Papers Project!

This cartoon, by Saul Raskin, published in the November 1909 issue of the Yiddish-language newspaper Die Grosse Kundes (The Big Stick), reads,

“Emma Goldman, the noisemaker, and free speech in America.”

Back in 1909, the assistant police superintendent of Philadelphia, Timothy O’Leary, threatened Emma Goldman with fire hoses: “She had better put on a rubber suit if she undertakes to make a speech there, because she certainly will get a ducking,” he boasted.”

Fast forward to the recent testimony of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford. Women’s truth is still being silenced, ignored, and ridiculed—dismissed without cause.

Preserving the truth and filling in the blanks in the historical record is more critical than ever.  Since 1980, the EGP has preserved the historical truth of Emma’s fight for social justice—as the only fully-curated collection of her fascinating life’s work. But we need your support to keep our doors open.

With your generosity, the EGP has been an indispensable resource for generations of scholars, writers, and performers, who have researched the materials we have rescued from obscurity—including our acclaimed four-volume series, Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years.

Donate today so that we all have access to the fruits, and facts, of Emma’s labor.

It’s easy!

The University provides no direct funding, so we must raise $27,000 a month to avoid termination. This time it is on October 31st. We are intensely focused on completing the final installment of our documentary series. We’re so close! Every penny you donate goes to ensuring the survival of Emma’s legacy!

                      Updates

E-book editions of our first two volumes (Made for America, 1890‒1901 and Making Speech Free, 1902‒1909) are now available on loan from certain libraries (especially if you recommend that they order our e-books).

In addition to the all-important text, all visuals for volume 4 are absolutely stunning and ready to go. Now we have to copy-edit a mere 700+ pages. (No big deal !)

Also keep an eye out for a new edition of our founder/director Dr. Candace Falk’s groundbreaking 1984 biography Love, Anarchy, and Emma Goldman, centered in part on the explosive discovery and subsequent fallout of EG’s hidden love letters, to be reissued next Spring as part of the Rutgers University Press Classics series.

   We take to heart the words of Howard Zinn, the author of A People's History of The United States: “What Falk’s remarkable book does . . . is to remind us of that passion, that revolutionary fervor, that camaraderie, that persistence in the face of political defeat and personal despair so needed in our time as in theirs.”

                                   Raising Funds to Seize the Moment

Within the next three months we will be ready to submit the completed manuscript for typesetting. With your support, the book launch will take place in the Fall of 2019.

The fourth volume ends on Ellis Island, the exact spot where, 100 years ago, Emma’s deportation ship left shore. Your reading pleasure will begin as the work of the Emma Goldman Papers Project comes to an end, fulfilling our mission and  labor of love.

Closing Message from Emma Goldman

“The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.”

— Emma Goldman, “What I Believe,” published in the New York World 19 July 1908

Ever grateful for your generosity and support, from our Prince of Integrity (PI): Professor Leon Litwack. Our editors: Candace, Dan, and Robby. Our student staff:  (Pictured above): Dalminder, Sarah, Jagreet, Camryn. Our volunteers: June (who has been with us for many decades). Our faithful Local Outreach Committee: Laura, Paul, Cookie, and Jonathan. Our visuals editor: Susan. Our archivist: Alex. Our illustration of Emma’s spectacles, drawn by graphic artist: Carmen Ribaudo.

   A reminder that our 22,000-document treasure trove is free and accessible to all:

https://archive.org/details/emmagoldmanguide00falk

And

https://archive.org/details/emmagoldmanpapers

Please make your tax-deductible donation to the Emma Goldman Papers Online using this link:

http://givetocal.berkeley.edu/browse/?u=39

Or send a check by mail, payable to the UC Berkeley Foundation, earmarked for the Emma Goldman Papers, to:

The Emma Goldman Papers

University of California

2241 Channing Way

Berkeley, CA 94720-6030

510-642-4708

emma@berkeley.edu

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Sept. 4 Deadline! Our News: 200,000 reasons we need your help! Please spread the word!

Note from Laura: After 5 pm, Sept 4, the Tuesday after Labor Day, no funds will be accepted by U of Houston for the purchase (which will go to preparing our archive for UH to pick up soon after)… but pledges by 5 PM on Sept 4, going to the UH will be accepted for this exciting effort, provided you can fulfill the pledges by the end of September. Thanks all! Laura X Note from Paul: After 50 years, looks like we have finally found a permanent home for Laura X's Social Movements Archives!! Please see the letter below from Laura X, Mara Kelly, and myself, the project's Development Consultant. Special thanks to Gloria Steinem for her help on the letter, and for forwarding to her constituency. Please help with this extraordinary opportunity. Note from Laura: Laura's Social Movements Archives (LSMA) is a vast, unique archive of women's movement and other social movement-related materials, consisting of hundreds of thousands of documents, articles, fliers, clippings, conference proceedings, publications, and other records from 1968 to now by thousands of people including yours truly. A major theme we began with, often swept easily under the rug, has been abuse of women and children. Although our campaigns successfully eliminated the legal privilege to rape one's wife or date, access to our documentation of this and all other forms of violence, abuse, and harassment is increasingly in demand. Dear friends and other families! The University of Houston Libraries would very much like to acquire Laura's Social Movements Archives (LSMA) Collection, and make it accessible to the public, including high school students locally, nationally and internationally, as well as to the university community. Out of respect for the many thousands of people who contributed their own records and work to the LSMA Collection over five decades, UHL would like to purchase the collection for $200,000, from LSMA, with your help. They have enjoyed Laura's visits to their archives with her archival staff, and UHL's visit to her outstanding archive. They hope to be assisting you in your research in this archive in the near future and will be happy to consider more collections on the dozens of topics covered in Laura's Social Movements Archives if you have additional materials to offer. Gloria Steinem let us know today that she is supporting this request:to testify to how crucial to history, future knowledge and activism the preservation and accessibility of this collection is. The records of our movement and others must have a great home. The UH Libraries' Carey C. Shuart Women's Archive and Research Collection is that place.(https://www.uh.edu/class/ws/resources/archive/index) We kindly request your support with a gift made out to the UH Libraries for the acquisition of the LSMA Collection, with "LSMA Collection" in the check memo line. Please send your tax-deductible gift to: Olivia ThompsonChief Development OfficerUH AdvancementP.O. Box 867Houston, TX 77001-0867 Kindly Donate Here Or, you may donate online to the University of Houston Libraries. Please note: On the first page, select "Special Collections General Fund" from the drop down menu, and note "LSMA Collection" in the special instructions on page two.Need help donating online? To make a pledge, or for any questions, you may reach out to Olivia Thompson directly at (713) 743-8026 or onthompson@uh.edu. On behalf of LSMA and its teaching arm, the Laura X Institute, we thank you for your work and support of this crucial record of social justice movements. Some are listed at LauraXInstitute.org. Mara Kelly - Lead Archivist, Laura X - Archivist, and Paul Sheldon - Development Consultant. Laura X, founder/director of the former     National Clearinghouse on Marital and Date RapeWomen's History Library(510) 587-3372 Berkeley, CA NCMDR website:http://ncmdr.org New website: http://lauraxinstitute.orgFacebook: https://facebook.com/laurarorthweinjr

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Herstory Matters

Note from Laura: Candace is not to be missed, nor is this event on Thursday at the wonderful Missouri History Museum, presented by our parallel archive projects. Please also take either chance to see her, one on one on Friday afternoon for a $200 donation to the Emma Goldman Papers Project, or at my table Saturday 10-2 at the Women's Equality Day Brunch as my treat, for that event, if you donate $100 to the Emma project. RSVP to me please. Thanks!

Please donate here: https://give.berkeley.edu/browse/?u=39

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The Emma Goldman Papers August Newsletter is out!! Please read and support their great work!

“Harvest Tidings” The spirit of Emma Goldman in the form of a giant papier-mâché figure spotted at the counterprotest in Washington, D.C. Dear Emmassaries, Though we are now in the dog days of summer, when the weather is — as Emma described it — “hot and sultry,” we look forward to cooler days ahead, when our wonderful student researchers return to campus from their travels. We’ve managed to find four talented work-study students who would be perfect for our final push to complete the volume. But we can only hire these students if we have the necessary funds for the next two semesters. We need your help to ensure a plentiful harvest. Donate today so that we all may continue to enjoy the fruits of Emma’s labor. It’s easy! Like the EGP Papers, Emma was always searching out the like-minded, seeking out supporters to build a people’s movement for social justice. In 1906, she was struggling to fund the magazine Mother Earth. Though today this publication is an essential source of scholarship and inspiration, at the time, it was very much a labor of love — with an emphasis on labor. In an editorial written for the December 1906 issue, Emma reminisced: “Somebody has said that a Revolution would be impossible in July — ‘Mother Earth,’ too, suffered from the same cause, the revenue of the magazine largely depending on the sales at the various radical and liberal meetings, which are quite inactive during the Summer months. Thanks to the active interest of a few friends, however, I was enabled to fertilize the soil, hoping that with cooler weather would come the harvest. My expectations were amply justified. August, September and October brought a host of new subscribers and a great demand for single copies.” (For more, see vol. 2 of our series, Making Speech Free.) The University expects us to raise $27,000 a month to cover all expenses — and avoid a termination — now set for August 31st. Every penny you contribute to the project helps to ensure our survival. There is still much work to be done. But it is our hope that August and beyond will bring us the support we need to complete this final volume of our documentary series — filled with insights that are not only pertinent to this historical moment, but also sorely needed. Archivist Spotlight We are still in hot pursuit of finally being able to officially hire our fabulous young archivist to help us prepare the archive for transfer. Alex earned her MLIS in 2014 from San Jose State University and has worked on archival and preservation projects with Paper Tiger Television, The Freedom Archives, Southern Exposure and the Bay Area Video Coalition. She is particularly interested in the documentation of radical histories, and also co-organizes an annual zine fest in the East Bay. With this great track record, Alex has been generously volunteering her time at the EGP for many years. We are lucky to have her and would like to reciprocate. Raising Funds to Seize the Moment Within the next three months we will be ready to submit the completed manuscript for typesetting. With our editors and work-study students, we will then have to proofread this 700+ page volume, and work with a professional indexer to ensure easy access to its broad range of historical detail. With luck, the book launch will take place in the Spring or Fall of 2019. Our fantasy has always been to celebrate the completion of the American Years series on Ellis Island. It was from there 100 years ago, that Emma’s deportation ship left shore — the story of which forms the dramatic ending of our volume. Your reading pleasure will begin as the work of the Emma Goldman Papers Project comes to an end, fulfilling our mission and 39-year labor love!    Closing Message from Emma Goldman “And here I come back to this powerful thing — the greatest weapon in all the world, more powerful than dynamite and bombs,and all other things together — that is the fear of public opinion — that the keepers and the jailers and the law-makers and the politicians have the fear of public opinion. It is necessary to create an intelligent, conscious, wide-awake revolutionary public opinion in the United States. That alone will open the prison doors, and nothing else.” (Finally free, Emma Goldman honors political prisoners still in jail in her Address at the Kate Richards O’Hare Testimonial Dinner on Monday, November 17, 1919, 7:30 o’clock, at Gonfarone’s Restaurant, New York City.)       

            Please make your tax-deductible donation to the Emma Goldman Papers Online using this link:http://givetocal.berkeley.edu/browse/?u=39

Or send a check by mail, payable to the 

UC Berkeley Foundation, 

earmarked for the Emma Goldman Papers, to: 

The Emma Goldman Papers

University of California 

2241 Channing WayBerkeley, CA 94720-6030

510-642-4708

emma@berkeley.edu

A reminder that our 22,000 document treasure trove is free and accessible to all: https://archive.org/details/emmagoldmanguide00falk And https://archive.org/details/emmagoldmanpapers

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New Emma Goldman Newsletter is Out!

Emma Goldman 2018 July Newsletter:

“Resist All Evil”

(especially termination on July 31st!)

Dear Emmassaries,

At the Emma Goldman Papers Project, we often have a sense of déjà vu while researching the World War I era. But even we are surprised by the many parallels to our current national predicament.

Take a look, for example, at the Table of Contents for the 1915 issue of Mother Earth—almost a century ago.

Featured in this edition of the magazine are Emma Goldman’s “Observations and Comments,” in which she addresses the issues of prison reform, police harassment and overreach, and reports on the positive reception to her talk on Ibsen’s play “An Enemy of the People” in Los Angeles. Alexander Berkman’s “Labor on Trial” critiques the increasing intimidation of labor by an alliance of big business and government, and advocates a militant approach centered on strikes and direct action. The issue’s concluding essay is a scathing attack on eugenics as advocated in William Robinson’s “The Limitation of Offspring”—testimony to the magazine’s early stance in favor of reproductive freedom.

From the necessity for free speech to the role of a truly independent press, the issues they faced in their time were eerily similar—including the problem of fake news. Dr. Michael A. Cohn mocked the prevailing editorial practice in “The Press”: “Give them stories; never mind facts.”  

These pages of Mother Earth magazine remain an antidote to despair. They testify to the enormous courage and mutual cooperation of a minority dedicated to fighting back against repression, fear, and disinformation.  

During these times that literally try our souls, it is more important than ever to recall the courage of those who, like Emma Goldman, stood up to injustice, advocated freedom, and envisioned a more equitable world.  

We hope that you, too, will be inspired to join forces with us not only to preserve the documents vital to Emma Goldman’s written legacy, but also to perpetuate the radical spirit of those who refused to yield to intimidation.

In the words of the opening poem by Paul Eldridge: “Resist All Evil!”

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Anticipating a busy Fall Semester at the EGP

First of all, thank you for helping us get to this point.

We are pleased to report that our campus crowdfunding campaign exceeded our (modest) expectations. Spearheaded by Alex Barrows’ playful creativity, we were able to offer contributors at different levels copies of love letters (sapphic or hetero), surveillance documents, EG letters written on a date significant to the donors, photographs of rare holdings in our archive, and even a face-time visit to our office!  Alex, our archivist, a recent graduate of library school, has been working intermittently with the Emma Goldman Papers without compensation. At this point, it is critical to refile the hundreds and hundreds of documents in various parts of our office to guarantee the usability of our archive after our work is completed. We hope to continue to work with Alex, as a paid staffer devoted to this task. We need at least $20,000 for this enormously important, labor-intensive phase of the last stage of the work of our decades-long project.

We are now anxiously anticipating the return of our student assistants for the Fall semester. There is much critical work to be done during this wrap-up phase,. We know for sure that we could not have come this far in the preparation of our final volume without the help of our work-study students—a program partially paid for by the university’s federal financial aid program, and requiring $2,500 per student from us for each semester.   

Reaching Out

For a quick update on our project, we invite you to listen to this recent radio interview with Candace on KPFA’s show ‘Against the Grain’: “The Irrepressible Emma Goldman,” easily accessible online.

Raising Funds to Seize the Moment

Now is the time to complete this final volume!  

As always, the University expects the EGP to raise $27,000 a month to cover all expenses—and avoid a termination—now set for July 31st. This is the most discouraging aspect of our work, but also the most heartwarming—to know that people care about the EGP and the preservation and accessibility to the written legacy of the irrepressible Emma Goldman.

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Closing Message from Emma Goldman

“We do not know where the forces of reaction will land us. But wherever we shall be, our work will go on until our last breath. May you, too, continue your efforts. These are trying but wonderful times. Clear heads and brave hearts were never more needed. There is great work to do. May each one of you give the best that is in him to the great struggle, the last struggle between liberty and bondage, between well-being and poverty, between beauty and ugliness. Be of good cheer, beloved comrades. Our enemies are fighting a losing battle. They are of the dying past. We are of the glowing future.”

Please make your tax-deductible donation to the Emma Goldman Papers Online using this link:

http://givetocal.berkeley.edu/browse/?u=39

Or send a check by mail, payable to the UC Berkeley Foundation, earmarked for the Emma Goldman Papers, to:

The Emma Goldman Papers

University of California

2241 Channing Way

Berkeley, CA 94720-6030

510-642-4708

emma@berkeley.edu

A reminder that our 22,000 document treasure trove is free and accessible to all:

https://archive.org/details/emmagoldmanguide00falk

and

https://archive.org/details/emmagoldmanpapers

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UPDATE! Our News: 200,000 Reasons We Need Your Help!

Note from Paul: After 50 years, looks like we have finally found a permanent home for Laura X's Social Movements Archives!! Please see the letter below from Laura X, Mara Kelly, and myself, the project's Development Consultant. Special thanks to Gloria Steinem for her help on the letter, and for forwarding to her constituency. Please help with this extraordinary opportunity.

Note from Laura: Laura's Social Movements Archives (LSMA) is a vast, unique archive of women's movement and other social movement-related materials, consisting of hundreds of thousands of documents, articles, fliers, clippings, conference proceedings, publications, and other records from 1968 to now by thousands of people including yours truly. A major theme we began with, often swept easily under the rug, has been abuse of women and children. Although our campaigns successfully eliminated the legal privilege to rape one's wife or date, access to our documentation of this and all other forms of violence, abuse, and harassment is increasingly in demand.

Dear friends and other families!

The University of Houston Libraries would very much like to acquire Laura's Social Movements Archives (LSMA) Collection, and make it accessible to the public, including high school students locally, nationally and internationally, as well as to the university community. Out of respect for the many thousands of people who contributed their own records and work to the LSMA Collection over five decades, UHL would like to purchase the collection for $200,000, from LSMA, with your help. They have enjoyed Laura's visits to their archives with her archival staff, and UHL's visit to her outstanding archive. They hope to be assisting you in your research in this archive in the near future and will be happy to consider more collections on the dozens of topics covered in Laura's Social Movements Archives if you have additional materials to offer.

Gloria Steinem let us know today that she is supporting this request: to testify to how crucial to history, future knowledge and activism the preservation and accessibility of this collection is. The records of our movement and others must have a great home. The UH Libraries' Carey C. Shuart Women's Archive and Research Collection is that place.(https://www.uh.edu/class/ws/resources/archive/index)

We kindly request your support with a gift made out to the UH Libraries for the acquisition of the LSMA Collection, with "LSMA Collection" in the check memo line. Please send your tax-deductible gift to:

Olivia Thompson Chief Development Officer UH Advancement P.O. Box 867 Houston, TX 77001-0867

KINDLY DONATE HERE: https://giving.uh.edu/gift/?school=library%20:%20UH

Or, you may donate online to the University of Houston Libraries. Please note: On the first page, select "Special Collections General Fund" from the drop down menu, and note "LSMA Collection" in the special instructions on page two. Need help donating online?

To make a pledge, or for any questions, you may reach out to Olivia Thompson directly at (713) 743-8026 or onthompson@uh.edu.

On behalf of LSMA and its teaching arm, the Laura X Institute, we thank you for your work and support of this crucial record of social justice movements. Some are listed at LauraXInstitute.org.

Mara Kelly - Lead Archivist, Laura X - Archivist, and Paul Sheldon - Development Consultant.

Laura X, founder/director of the former National Clearinghouse on Marital and Date Rape Women's History Library (510) 587-3372 Berkeley, CA

NCMDR website:http://ncmdr.org New website: http://lauraxinstitute.org Facebook: https://facebook.com/laurarorthweinjr

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Our News: 200,000 Reasons We Need Your Help!

Note from Paul: After 50 years, looks like we have finally found a permanent home for Laura X's Social Movements Archives!! Please see the letter below from Laura X, Mara Kelly, and myself, the project's Development Consultant. Special thanks to Gloria Steinem for her help on the letter, and for forwarding to her constituency. Please help with this extraordinary opportunity.

Note from Laura: Laura's Social Movements Archives (LSMA) is a vast archive of women's movement and other social movement-related materials, consisting of hundreds of thousands of documents, articles, fliers, clippings, conference proceedings, publications, and other records from 1968 to now by thousands of people including yours truly.

Dear friends and other families!

The University of Houston Libraries would very much like to acquire Laura's Social Movements Archives (LSMA) Collection, and make it accessible to the public, including high school students locally, nationally and internationally, as well as to the university community. Out of respect for the many thousands of people who contributed their own records and work to the LSMA Collection over five decades, UHL would like to purchase the collection for $200,000, from LSMA, with your help.

They have enjoyed Laura's visits to their archives with her archival staff, and UHL's visits to her outstanding archive. They hope to be assisting you in your research in this archive in the near future and will be happy to consider more collections on the dozens of topics covered in Laura's Social Movements Archives if you have additional material to offer.

Gloria Steinem let us know today that she is supporting this request: to testify to how crucial to history, future knowledge and activism the preservation and accessibility of this collection is. The records of our movement and others must have a great home. The UH Libraries' Carey C. Shuart Women's Archive and Research Collection is that place.(https://www.uh.edu/class/ws/resources/archive/index)

We kindly request your support with a gift made out to the UH Libraries for the acquisition of the LSMA Collection, with "LSMA Collection" in the check memo line. Please send your tax-deductible gift to:

Olivia Thompson Chief Development Officer UH Advancement P.O. Box 867 Houston, TX 77001-0867

Or, you may donate online to the University of Houston Libraries. Please note "LSMA Collection" in the special instructions on page two. Click here for instructions to donate online.

To make a pledge, or for any questions, you may reach out to Olivia Thompson directly at (713) 743-8026 or onthompson@uh.edu.

On behalf of the LSMA and its teaching arm, the Laura X Institute, we thank you for your work and support of this crucial record of social justice movements: LauraXInstitute.org

Mara Kelly - Lead Archivist, Laura X - Archivist, and Paul Sheldon - Development Consultant.

Laura X, founder/director of the former     National Clearinghouse on Marital and Date Rape Women's History Library (510) 587-3372  Berkeley, CA

NCMDR website:http://ncmdr.org New website: http://lauraxinstitute.org Facebook: https://facebook.com/laurarorthweinjr

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Happy Birthday Emma!

From Emma Goldman Papers June 2018 newsletter

Dear Emmassaries,

This June 27 will mark Emma’s 149th birthday! Join us in celebrating her favorite day of the year by contributing to the Emma Goldman Papers. Your contribution will help us preserve and disseminate history “from below” and push UCB’s termination of our project past June 30th.

Her Story

In the midst of one of the most repressive eras in the history of the United States, when dissent against conscription and war was criminalized, Emma Goldman bore the harsh consequences of prison and deportation for her assertion of the right of free expression in wartime. Undaunted, she remained hopeful about the future, buoyed by friends, comrades, and those who would carry on the struggle when she was gone.

The month of June in 1917 was the most dramatic month in Emma’s life. Both Mother Earth and the Blast magazines were briefly held up in the mail, and eventually censored. Emma and Sasha were arrested on June 15th on charges of conspiring to obstruct the draft. Their trial began less than two weeks later — on Emma’s birthday — which she considered curiously appropriate. The trial was the culmination of  the decades she’d spent trying to make America live up to the principles upon which it was founded.

Emma recounted how it felt to be tried for conspiracy on her 48th birthday: “It marked twenty-eight years of my life spent in an active struggle against compulsion and injustice. The United States now symbolizing concentrated coercion, I could not have wished for a more appropriate celebration than to meet its challenge” (Living My Life Chapter 45).

Her next birthday, her forty-ninth, came around during her eighteen-month sentence at the Jefferson City Missouri State Penitentiary. This time, her fellow inmates gifted her with a full quota of work, thereby securing for her a day away from the prison’s grueling workshop.

She described the day in her autobiography Living My Life,

“They had remembered my birthday. ‘It would be so nice if Miss Emma could keep out of the shop on that day,’ they had said. The next morning my table was covered with letters, telegrams, and flowers from my own kin and comrades, as well as with innumerable packages from friends in different parts of the country. I was proud to have so much love and attention, but nothing touched me so deeply as the gift of my fellow-sufferers in prison" (Chapter 47).

By the time Emma’s fiftieth birthday arrived, the sadness of being so close to banishment from her beloved adopted country marred her usual birthday exuberance. She reflected upon her life’s work and the elusive quality of her contributions to the world, musing with a touch of melancholia:

“Fifty years — thirty of them in the firing line — had they borne fruit or had I merely been repeating Don Quixote’s idle chase? Had my efforts served only to fill my inner void, to find an outlet for the turbulence of my being? Or was it really the ideal that had dictated my conscious course? Such thoughts and queries swirled through my brain as I pedalled my sewing-machine on June 27, 1919” (Living My Life Chapter 49).

 Our Story

We, too, at the Emma Goldman Papers sometimes wonder whether we are tilting at windmills. At the same time, however, we know that telling the story through her own words by documenting her courage to stand firmly against: the suppression of free speech, the exploitation of workers, the desolation of the homeless and unemployed, and the rising tide of militarism, is an inspiration to others who recognize and oppose injustice.

Emma, who valued the enjoyment of the “beautiful, radiant things” of life, also loved receiving gifts and accolades from friends and comrades on her birthday. In fact, she kept detailed accounts of the presents her friends gave her, and even berated friends who forgot her birthday.

Like Emma, we look forward to receiving gifts from you, promise never to berate those who can’t, and will continue to honor your generosity by adding your names to our book’s “Emma’s List.” We can’t wait to celebrate our publication date with you — a birthday of sorts, for all of us!

These days we are busy honing in on the last round of changes to the final volume in our four-book documentary series on Emma’s years in the United States, Democracy Disarmed: 1917-1919. Last week, Candace sent the final section of the introduction to the editors! Dan is hard at work refining the edits and adding life to the biographical directory, finishing up the final forty biofiles of our directory of over one hundred dramatis personae in her life--- anarchist and socialist comrades and friends, authors, artists, journalists, lawyers, prominent political figures, and key government officials instrumental in executing her deportation.  Sarah is compiling photographs and other visuals to use in a promotional video that will accompany the release of Volume 4 before leaving to conduct her own research for the rest of the summer. Susan is perfecting the scans of the visuals to keep the aesthetics of the presentation consistent with the other volumes. Meghan is making sure that the contributions, especially those in memory or in honor of a dear one, will be listed appropriately in Emma’s List in the volume. June, our longtime volunteer (for the last 30 years!), will be celebrating her ninety-first birthday on June 27th — the same day as Emma would have been celebrating her one hundred and forty-ninth!

While the staff of the Emma Goldman Papers is plugging away, we need your help to keep our doors open. Our dream is to celebrate Emma’s birthday with (the required) $27,000 this month, and for the next six months to the end of 2018. These funds would give us the financial security to tie up the last few strings of the final installment of her American story. We ask that you consider making a recurring donation of $270 a month for the next six months. Just maybe we will be able to start the new year with an ‘End of Book Production Celebration’!

As always, we thank you for believing in the value of our work; we at the Emma Goldman Papers could not have come this far without your help.

All together now, let’s shout out a rousing happy birthday, Emma — and dance!

http://givetocal.berkeley.edu/browse/?u=39

  A reminder that our treasure trove is free and accessible to all:

https://archive.org/details/emmagoldmanguide00falk

and

https://archive.org/details/emmagoldmanpapers

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New Emma Goldman Papers Newsletter is out!

Emma Goldman Papers May 2018 newsletter

May Day Mayday

Dear Emmassaries,

May we ask for your help, once again? After we share tantalizing archival tidbits, of course!!

May is Labor History Month, a time for us to recall the laborers, strikers, and organizers whose hard work and sacrifices have shaped our country’s history. We at the Emma Goldman Papers project would like to share with you the stories of a few significant moments from the labor movement and from Emma’s life in the hopes that it will inspire you to continue your support of the work we do in documenting history “from below.”

International Workers’ Day, celebrated May 1st, was initiated in remembrance of Chicago’s Haymarket Affair — the massacre that took place at a rally, on May 4th, 1886, for an 8-hour workday and to protest the recent killing of four striking plant workers. Over a hundred policemen marched up to stop the demonstration when a bomb exploded in Haymarket Square. Casualties, mostly from police bullets, totalled seventy, including seven dead policemen. Although the identity of the bomb thrower was never established, official blame fell on eight of the city’s prominent anarchists, four of whom were hanged the next year. Thereafter, May 1st would be dedicated to the Haymarket martyrs as a day of homage to laboring people everywhere. For Emma, the event was one of the most formative of her time in America (1885-1919), forever altering the course of her life. As she wrote of the tragedy in Living My Life:

“I had a distinct sensation that something new and wonderful had been born in my soul. A great ideal, a burning faith, a determination to dedicate myself to the memory of my martyred comrades, to make their cause my own, to make known to the world their beautiful lives and heroic deaths.”

1886 engraving published in Harper’s Weekly anachronistically depicting the bombing, the riot, and the speeches all occurring simultaneously.

May 1st (1837) is also (approximately) the birth date of Mother Jones, one of the founders of the Industrial Workers of the World, whose ability to organize massive strikes, especially among miners, prompted the government to label her “the most dangerous woman in America” — a moniker bestowed, years later, on Emma Goldman.  

May was a special month in Emma’s life and in the lives of those who were close to her. Her comrade Alexander (Sasha) Berkman was released from prison on 18 May 1906, having served fourteen years for his assassination attempt on industrialist Henry Clay Frick — retribution for the murder, by Pinkerton agents, of striking workers at Frick’s Homestead Steel Mill.

Every year thereafter, Emma and Sasha honored May 18; as she wrote her “Dearest Sash” in 1925:

“19 years ago I left Montreal for Detroit to meet you my own boy released from the hell in Pensylvania. [sic] I can hardly believe it is that long, it seems almost like yesterday. And yet what a terrible 19 years it has been.

Terrible and fascinating, full of struggle and disappointment but also of much joy and many rich experiences. The greatest of joys however is the fact that you have remained in my life, and that our friendship is as fresh and intense as it was many years ago, more mellow and understanding than when we were both young and unreasonable, My heart goes out to you on this our day with deep love and devotion.”

On 18 May 1917, eleven years after Berkman’s release, Emma delivered her speech in opposition to conscription at the Harlem River Casino, urging those in attendance to question forced military service on the very day that the Selective Service Act had been signed into law. This speech — the distorted transcript of which was used as a major piece of evidence in EG’s and AB’s conspiracy trial — ultimately led to their deportation from the United States aboard the USAT Buford.

Upon her death, FDR allowed Emma’s body to return to the US for burial in Waldheim Cemetery in Chicago, close to the monument for the Haymarket martyrs — the source of her spiritual awakening.  

She had died on 14 May 1940, while in exile in Toronto, prompting the British anarchist writer Ethel Mannin to muse:

“Red Emma! A four-square, thick-set, domineering little woman, square-jawed, disconcertingly forthright, irascible, and as relentless in her demands on herself as on others where the revolutionary cause is concerned, and behind that forbidding exterior, a martyr burnt up with the flame of her passion for human liberty, . . loving beauty and peace, though there has been so little time for either in her crowded life; a truly great woman, a great Person, judged by any standard… Her whole life is an example of unfaltering courage and unswerving faith, in the face of persecution and bitter disappointment” (Women and the Revolution).

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Recently, we received a notice from the university informing us that we must, once again raise more funds immediately or face eviction at the end of May. So as you contemplate these stories, we ask you to consider making a donation to the Emma Goldman Papers so that we can continue to preserve Emma’s legacy with our final installment of her American story.

Crowdfunding brought in almost $7,000 from an array of donors, many of whom are new to our “Emma’s List.” We also raised over $1,200 directly to our general account. Just another $13,000 will extend Emma’s project through June. Please make your donation today!

Emma Goldman fulfilled the dream etched at the base of monument to the Haymarket martyrs, as expressed by her old friend Harry Weinberger at a memorial held shortly after she died:

Emma Goldman. . . to whom liberty was more important than life itself. . . the story of your life will live as long as stories are told of women and men of courage and idealism.

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Please help the Emma Goldman Papers in their crowdfunding campaign to continue their special work! 

From the Emma Goldman Papers:

“I want freedom, the right to self-expression, every body’s right to beautiful, radiant things” - Emma Goldman, Living My Life (1931)

Who are we?

Emma Goldman (1869-1940) was a tireless advocate of free expression and social justice. Her papers are a treasure trove of women’s, immigration, ethnic, transnational, political, cultural, sexual, and civil liberties histories. The Emma Goldman Papers has been collecting, organizing, publishing, and transcribing documents by and related to Emma Goldman since 1980. What began as a standard reference work has expanded into a multi-source scholarly project of American radicalism, women’s contribution to the shaping of American history — and beyond.

Please help us preserve the Emma Goldman Papers by making a gift.

We find ourselves in a vast and often violent world in which the smallest forms of dissent are condemned as treason, human dignity itself is threatened. We believe that the messages championed by Emma and her contemporaries are even more important now, as is the critical issue of free speech.

With your support, we will be able to secure the preservation of the collection of tens of thousands of historical documents and organizational records amassed and produced by the project over more than 37 years.  A contribution of $50 will cover the preservation of 50 pages of EGP institutional records, while a donation of $100 would sponsor the archiving of 100 pages and $500, 500 pages! In this way, the Emma Goldman Papers’ will not be put to rest, but will remain accessible far into the future, one page at a time. 

Your contribution will be put to use immediately. Anything you contribute will ensure that the Emma Goldman Papers Project will remain a valuable teaching resource, both for those interested in pursuing similar work as well as those who wish to learn research, writing, documentary editing and archival skills necessary for other fields. The funds will cover many tasks required for preserving an archival collection –including supplies, staff time spent conducting inventories, organizing and processing copies of documents. $5500 would provide the monetary compensation for the 3 students on our research and administrative staff.  

Indeed, it will also support the completion of the four-volume edition of Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years 1890-1919-- proofreading and indexing--the last steps toward the publication of Emma Goldman: Democracy Disarmed: 1917-1919.

The link to our crowdfund is https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/ emmagoldmanpapers

Our website is http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/goldman/. Access to 22,000 Emma Goldman documents archive.org/details/emmagoldmanpapers                        

Feel free to email us if you have any questions at emma@berkeley.edu. 

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Emma Goldman April Newsletter is Out!

Dearest Emmassaries,

April is the season of renewal, when buds burst and nature is reborn. Thanks to your generous support, UC Berkeley has allowed the Emma Goldman Papers to keep working on the production of Volume Four through April only. With your support, we will make it through the Spring semester, month-to-month at $27,000 month. We have extraordinary fundraising news—see below.  

Emma, however, who was in constant contact with her supporters, found various aspects of fundraising quite “vulgar” as you will see in the story below...

Emma—widely known today for her ability to inspire audiences to look beyond the injustices of the present to a future in which social and economic equality would take hold—and for her tolerance of what lies between the present and the future, also had very strong, lesser known, likes and dislikes as revealed by her friend Margaret Anderson. Margaret was the avant-garde literary editor and publisher of The Little Review, which Emma once described as “a magazine to sound a note of rebellion in creative endeavour! . . . alive to new art forms and was free from the mawkish sentimentality of most American publications. Its main appeal to me lay in its strong and fearless critique of conventional standards, something I had been looking for in the United States for twenty-five years.”

“Although she gives the impression of being able to stand anything, there are any number of things she can’t stand. She can’t stand wearing a fur coat— the thought of the murdered animal would suffocate her. She can’t stand food that has been cooked by inexpert hands— she will go hungry rather than eat it. She can’t stand small handkerchiefs, certain colors, many perfumes, flowers in a room at night. She can’t stand reporters’ questions. She can’t stand references to money. I once addressed affectionately as our “angel” a man who helped to bring out a number of the L.R. [Little Review]. She was deeply shocked, found it vulgar. Of course the things she can stand needn’t be entered into here…I made a joke for her: If the world only knew what a prima donna Emma Goldman is! She laughed— but she couldn’t quite stand that either.” (Margaret Anderson, My Thirty Years’ War)

    Margaret Anderson (L) and Jane Heap (R), 1920s

Of course, we were aware that Emma was particular about food — called by some friends “the cordon-bleu of gefilte fish” and often shared her famous blintz recipe in letters. But who knew she couldn’t stand small handkerchiefs and many perfumes? Ironically, Emma’s friend Sadakichi Hartmann had attempted to stage the first “scent concert” in 1902, A Trip to Japan in Sixteen Minutes. He also wrote a spring poem, “Tanka,” which begins:

Winter? Spring? Who knows?

White buds from the plumtrees wing

And mingle with the snows.

No blue skies these flowers bring,

Yet their fragrance augurs Spring.

This month, we are honored to have been invited to participate in the university’s rotating monthly crowdfunding effort — which we hope will bear fruit! Each donation tier comes with a whimsical thank-you “perk,” from steamy correspondence, to Emma’s blintz recipe, to classic cards from the EGP. . . .  Check out our crowdfunding website and please pass it on to others! Click here: crowdfund.berkeley.edu/emmagoldmanpapers (Please donate here to impress the university, but don’t worry, it goes straight to our general fund!)

As we wind down to the conclusion of our fourth volume, our students are also nearing the end of their semester in mid-May. Part of our team is heading off to fun-filled adventures. Esther will be returning home to the United Kingdom soon. Hannah is heading off to Chile for a few weeks, and Meghan might head off to Washington, D.C. for a summer internship. The rest are remaining in Berkeley, working at the archive, taking classes, and enjoying the summer. Gillian, who is applying for a semester in an art history program in London for the fall semester, will continue working this summer. Sarah received a stipend to focus on preparing her undergraduate thesis, and will also work with us for part of the summer. Happily, Alex is here to help re-organize our collection to prepare for its preservation. As always, Dan and I will be working on putting together the final pieces of the volume, collaborating with our URAP and work-study students, our visuals editor Susan Wengraf, our managing editor Ayelet Maida, and a terrific editorial team to complete this many years-long labor of love.

Pictured from left to right: Gillian, Meghan, Dan, Esther, and Sarah

Your contribution will support the students who can continue working with us beyond the spring and into the summer. A $5,000 donation will pay the student salaries of our office manager Meghan and our research assistants, Sarah, Hannah, and Gillian, to assist us in the submission of this all-important scholarly edition including the production of our visually inviting layout and illustrations to the typesetter.

Additional funds  from you will support the final editing and publication of this last volume and carry us through the end of 2018 toward the completion of Emma’s project.  A draft of the index should follow shortly, to be vetted then coordinated with the pagination of the typeset volume…and the incredible last step of proofreading the whole.

Democracy Disarmed 1917-1919—the last of the 4-volume series Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years 1890-1919—will offer readers a first-hand view of the history of dissent during the years during and in the aftermath of the First World War. Goldman’s trials and tribulations in a period of extreme political repression and her bold resistance is both an inspiration and a warning.

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A reminder that our 22,000 document treasure trove is free and accessible to all:

https://archive.org/details/emmagoldmanguide00falk

and

https://archive.org/details/emmagoldmanpapers

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Emma Goldman Papers| | The "Democracy" of Caste and Race February 2018 Newsletter

Dear Emmassaries,

To honor Black History Month, we offer you a story from our archives — that of an exceptional member of Emma’s circle — whose legacy reminds us why it is that we do the work that we do. We hope that her life will inspire you to continue your generous support of the Emma Goldman Papers as we enter the final stretch of this project’s long life.

Martha Gruening recognized the interdependence of race, gender, and class, long before the civil rights and women’s movements of the 1960s. In the 1912 essay “Two Suffrage Movements,” Martha wrote, “This is what all suffragists must understand, whatever their sex or color — that all the disenfranchised of the earth have a common cause.”

Martha distributing women’s suffrage literature, 1912

Born only twenty-six years after President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, Martha Gruening devoted her life to advocating for the rights of Black Americans. She was Assistant Secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), a contributor covering race riots and lynchings for Mother Earth, and founder of Gomez Mill House, a school whose mission was to transcend racial and religious prejudice.

In 1917, she adopted David Butt, a Black child — an action generally uncommon for a Jewish woman in the early twentieth century. That same year, she and NAACP co-founder W.E.B. Du Bois worked together to investigate a race riot in East St. Louis, Illinois. Of the experience, she wrote in Mother Earth shortly after the United States entered the First World War:

East St. Louis is an example of that democracy we are to spread over the world — the democracy of caste and race oppression, of unspeakable cruelty and intolerance, of hideous injustices . . . I have seen this democracy at close range, and I know what it means. That is why I want the world made unsafe for it (“Speaking of Democracy,” Mother Earth, August 1917).

Telegram sent by Martha Gruening to the National American Woman Suffrage Association’s Resolutions Committee, August 1917. Martha asked that the association consider a show of solidarity with black men and women. (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

Martha and her close friend and companion Helen Boardman joined the movement against conscription — as members of the No Conscription League (founded by Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman). The two women served as character witnesses  testifying on Emma and Sasha’s behalf during their trial for conspiracy to obstruct the Selective Service Act of 1917.

For more information on Martha Gruening, we recommend that you turn to  “susan c. dessel’s” thorough and thoughtful research into her life, entitled Brick in a Soft Hat.

To honor Martha Gruening’s legacy by making sure Martha’s and Emma’s work endures, please contribute to the Emma Goldman Papers Project today! Your support will help us complete our fourth 700-page volume and find a home for the archive as we wind down to the end of thirty-seven years of work.

 Your generosity has convinced the University to extend our project thru March 31st. We have received an additional $22,000 in contributions—only covering the first three weeks in April. The University requires that we raise $27,000 a month or be shutdown, but we won’t give up!

This month, Candace and the EGP were featured in PBS’ American Experience. She spoke to Cori Brosnahan about Emma’s favorite books: 

Thank you as always; we could not continue our work without your generous support.

 DONATE HERE: http://givetocal.berkeley.edu/browse/?u=39

 A reminder that our treasure trove is free and accessible to all:

https://archive.org/details/emmagoldmanguide00falk

and https://archive.org/details/emmagoldmanpapers

 The Emma Goldman Papers

University of California, Berkeley

2241 Channing Way

Berkeley, CA 94720-6030

(510) 642-4708

emma@berkeley.edu

The Emma Goldman Papers Project is completely funded by donations from our generous "Emmassaries". We hope you will consider making a contribution so that we can reach our goal of publishing the final volume on Emma's time in America and finding a home for our enormous collection of documents, invaluable to scholars, students, and the public alike. Make your tax-deductible donation here.

For more information on the Emma Goldman Papers and Emma's written legacy, see our UC Berkeley website and our blog.

To access our treasure trove of writings by and about Emma Goldman, free to all, see our digital archive, along with our digital microfilms guide to assist you in navigating the documents.

Follow us on Facebook and Twitter for facts, photos, and Emma quotes that are as resonant today as they were during Emma's lifetime.

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Please help support the Emma Goldman Papers reach their final goal!

Dearest Emmassaries,

We hope the holiday season has been treating you as well as you’ve been treating us!

The responses to our holiday card have been overwhelmingly positive. In our fall campaign, we raised half of what we need for this final semester. We were granted an extension through March 31st, so we still have $81,000 yet to raise. We greatly appreciate each of your contributions, which will allow us to put the finishing touches on the forthcoming fourth— and final— volume of our series, Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years, 1917-1919.

Hitting the road in Emma’s footsteps, our own Candace Falk braved the bomb cyclone NYC winter storm to participate in a panel at the 2018 Annual Conference of the Modern Language Association titled “He Said WHAAT??!! Editing Oral Texts for Print Publication”. This panel also included a former journalist discussing “accuracy in print”, and an editor from the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers engaged in transcribing her radio and television talks. Candace enjoyed introducing the mixed role played by government stenographers assigned to Emma Goldman’s talks. Their accounts often provided the only official written source for determining what EG “actually” said; their biased inaccuracies weighted her legal trials and tribulations, which eventually led to her imprisonment and deportation. Ironically, these surveillance reports beautifully capture the flavor and ambiance of Emma’s interaction with her audiences, opening a window into her skill as an orator, and to the energy and spontaneity often missing from her her the formal written essay versions of the very same lectures.

In honor of MLK Day, Candace also attended an open house at our sister -brother papers project, at the King Institute, pictured here with her longtime colleague, Clayborne Carson, director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers at Stanford University. These days, we need voices like those of Dr. King and Emma Goldman more than ever.

As another semester begins, we welcome our student assistants Hannah and Guive back to campus.  We also welcome our returning student assistant, Sarah, back from  her Junior semester abroad.

To support our student staff and maintain the pace and progress of the EGP we encourage you to start the year with a donation. This helps to ensure the completion of our work on the 4th 700-page volume and  supports our effort to find a fine home for the extraordinary 40,000 document collection--as we close our doors.

Our budget of $27,000 per month is relatively small in comparison to most  documentary history projects. As we are a non-funded project of the University of California, Berkeley, the EGP depends upon month to month contributions from our wonderful donors.

Ever Grateful for Your Generosity and Support,

Thanks from Candace, Dan and our student staff Sarah, Hannah and Guive, and our volunteers Ross and June (who has been with us for many decades), as well as our faithful local outreach committee.

You can make your tax-deductible donation to the

Emma Goldman Papers online at

http://givetocal.berkeley.edu/browse/?u=39

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Thank you all. . . for helping us persevere!  . . .

Candace

for

The Emma Goldman Papers

University of California, Berkeley

2241 Channing Way

Berkeley, CA 94720-6030

(510) 642-4708

emma@berkeley.edu

The Emma Goldman Papers Project is completely funded by donations from our generous "Emmassaries". We hope you will consider making a contribution so that we can reach our goal of publishing the final volume on Emma's time in America and finding a home for our enormous collection of documents, invaluable to scholars, students, and the public alike. Make your tax-deductible donation here.

For more information on the Emma Goldman Papers and Emma's written legacy, see our UC Berkeley website and our blog.

To access our treasure trove of writings by and about Emma Goldman, free to all, see our digital archive, along with our digital microfilms guide to assist you in navigating the documents.

Follow us on Facebook and Twitter for facts, photos, and Emma quotes that are as resonant today as they were during Emma's lifetime.

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We’re a week late and more than a dollar short!

We missed Giving Tuesday by a week and, frankly, we’re way more than a dollar short of our $162,000 goal.

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Our campaign has raised enough to get us to the end of the 2017 calendar year!  

Thank you!

“We want the moral support of all lovers of Liberty-Would we could exist with that alone! But as it is, we also need money.”

-Emma Goldman, Mother Earth magazine February 1909

Sound familiar?

We have many loyal Emmassaries--over the years, 1237 people and organizations have donated to the Emma Goldman Papers project. And we need to ask again for your support, as Emma did over and over again. We are not yet at the end of our project, but we can see the finish line from here!

Donations have come from generous contributors, monthly sustainers, and one of our donors made a $5000 tax-deductible donation from her IRA (did you know that if you donate your mandatory distribution from your IRA when you turn 70 1/2 years old, it is not taxable to you? This is a great way to help you and Emma!)

Please join our campaign to raise $162,000 by January 1 for the spring semester, to demonstrate to the University that we have a financially viable project, in order to be permitted to continue with our essential staff --(a $2,500 donation will fund each of our work-study students).

Prefer to write a check?  Anything dated in December gets you a deduction this year. But January 1 will work for us, too, if that is better for you!

Payable to: UC Berkeley Foundation/ EGP

Mail to:   The Emma Goldman Papers

University of California

2241 Channing Way

Berkeley, CA  94720-6030

                     Call or email us: 510-642-4708     emma@berkeley.edu

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Please folks on this list, pass this around and kindly find people who are willing to sustain Emma at 27 dollars a month!  Thanks always,  Laura

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Keep Emma's banner flying high !

“Deportation is but the first step that will inevitably lead to its ultimate, the complete suppression of popular discontent and free speech by the system of exiling even the native protestants and rebels.”

- Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, “Deportation: Its Meaning and Menace” 1 November 1919

Ai Weiwei’s banner of Emma’s mug shot, currently gracing 7th Street and 2nd Avenue.

(Source: East Village Today, Oct. 5th 2017)

Dearest Emmassaries,  

EMMA GOLDMAN, deported in 1919 with Alexander Berkman, is making a solo cameo appearance this season in New York City!

Chinese artist-activist Ai Weiwei's latest exhibition, "Good Fences Make Good Neighbors," features a portrait of Emma! His work examines the plight of displaced migrants, drawn from his experiences traveling through refugee camps across the globe.

AI WEIWEI: The fence can be between neighbors to divide, to set up some kind of border. It’s about territory, about dividing to push the others away or to stop others from crossing. Generally, it reflects a misunderstanding of humanity.

Two hundred lamppost banners complement his interactive, fence-like installations. Each banner features portraits of immigrants and refugees who made indelible contributions to the long history of our collective demand for freedom  -- including -- you guessed it -- our beloved Emma!

[To our East Coast Emmassaries and beyond, this exhibition will be on view until February 11th, 2018, so make sure to give Emma our comradely regards (and send us your photos!)]

In the month between her release from prison and deportation, Emma Goldman addressed a large banquet held in honor of her prison mate-- the prominent socialist and dear friend, Kate Richards O’Hare, who was still in prison.

As the night came to a close, she made a familiar plea for funds for the legal defense and support funds for political prisoners, still behind bars.

“ I know that once you awaken the American people they will establish their rights. But the way to awaken them is left to us, and the only way we can awaken them is to create a strong movement--a movement already in existence, which is to be sustained... and that can only be done by money.”

-- Emma Goldman in  Address at the Kate Richards O’Hare Testimonial Dinner, 17 November 1919

Yes! Sustaining donors at $27/mo through June

are building the movement indeed.  

EMMA’S DILEMMA -- AND OURS:

December 31st is the shut-down date per UCB, therefore NOW is the time for action. Please go forth and multiply: find 10 more donors just like you!    

Our budget of $27,000 per month ($162,000 for Jan -June 2018) is relatively small compared to most documentary history projects like ours, as they are fully staffed.

As a non-funded project of the University of California, Berkeley, the EGP depends upon the contributions of our wonderful donors.

If you are planning to donate in the months of November or December, please consider the fact that we are required to raise the entire 6 months budget, in order to be allowed to keep our  work-study students

who are our primary staffers. ( With all of our editing and production expenses, we can only afford one part-time non-student, Dan Elkind, our excellent assocate editor.)

This timing will be key to the survival and continuance of our work on the 4th 700-page volume and finding the perfect home for the extraordinary 40,000 document collection.

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Help us preserve the written legacy of Emma Goldman -- for students, activists, scholars, and for those whose lives are touched by her vision and resolve in the face of injustice. With Ai WeiWei, we honor the historical significance and contribution of the many inspiring migrants and refugees across the globe, across time--and offer them long overdue shelter in our hearts and minds.

Ever grateful for your active generosity and support,  we thank you,

Candace, Dan, and our student staff Gabrielle, Guive, Austin, and Hannah, as well as our faithful local outreach committee.

Source: Emma Goldman Papers

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To pledge a recurring donation, click here, enter the desired amount for each payment, and on the next screen, select, “recurring.” If you are not able to pledge a recurring donation right now, we of course always appreciate a one-time donation.

Or send a check by mail, payable to the UC Berkeley Foundation,earmarked for the Emma Goldman Papers, to:

The Emma Goldman PapersUniversity of California

2241 Channing Way

Berkeley, CA 94720-6030

510-642-4708

emma@berkeley.edu

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/goldman

A reminder that our treasure trove is free and accessible to all: :

https://archive.org/details/emmagoldmanguide00falk and

https://archive.org/details/emmagoldmanpapers.

You can also follow Emma's lecture tours and Project news onFacebook @EmmaGoldmanPapers and @FriendsoftheEmmaGoldmanPapers, on our blog,

http://emmagoldmanpapers.tumblr.com.

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In support of the Emma Goldman Projects, please read:

“[After] almost half a century of so-called freedom, the Negro Question is more acute than ever… Hardly a day passes without a Negro being lynched. … Nowhere in the country does the Negro enjoy equal opportunity with the white man—socially, politically, or economically, notwithstanding his alleged Constitutional rights… Race hatred is not limited to the Negro. To a lesser degree other races and nationalities also suffer from the same narrow-minded spirit.”

“The Situation in America” - Emma Goldman’s report to the International Anarchist Congress, Amsterdam, August 1907 — published in Mother Earth, September 1907.

Dearest Emmassaries,  

In 1907, Emma Goldman identified and lamented the problem of racial inequality — still plaguing our nation now 110 years since she spoke. Although racism was not her primary focus, the inspiration and courage with which she fought against injustice lives on. Help perpetuate her wisdom and insight! The best way to do that would be to multiply yourselves as monthly donors: see how to do so below.

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As ever, we are inspired by our project’s Principal Investigator at UCB, Professor Leon Litwack, — among the greatest historians of the plight of African Americans — whose array of pathbreaking books include his Pulitzer Prize-winning Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery, and Trouble In Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow. What a privilege it is to have the support and guidance of Leon, a forward-thinking scholar whose works continue to have a profound impact on the study of American history. His book How Free is Free? The Long Death of Jim Crow inspired the new film The Long Shadow and launched him into stardom!

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Because of your generous donations, we have been able to raise over $70,000 since last June — in large part due to our many donors who chose to commemorate Emma’s June 27 birthday by pledging to send monthly donations of only $27 only through April of next year. Now only 740 such sustainers are needed for funding the 700 page book and finding a home for the 40,000 document collection.

Unfortunately our funds are projected to run out by the end of November 2017. As we are a non-funded project of the University of California, Berkeley, the EGP depends upon the contributions of our wonderful donors to sustain us as we complete our 4th and final volume, otherwise, the university ONCE AGAIN will move to SHUT US DOWN. Our minimum UCB required operating budget is $20,000 per month; our necessary budget is $27,000 per month. Right now, as we are preparing high quality visuals, vetting all previous edits and beginning to finalize the writing for the ancillary sections of the forthcoming volume, your support matters more than ever. Timely donations will extend our work through the winter.

Preserving the written legacy of those who, like Emma Goldman, dared to confront injustice, and whose eloquence, passion, and perseverance — whose life stories are in themselves wellsprings of hope — can serve as sustenance to all who face the challenges of distressing times.

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Please consider contributing to the Emma Goldman Papers today — to honor the contribution of one of the many immigrants who continue to honor the contribution of one of the greatest proponents against injustice everywhere!

To pledge a recurring donation, click here, enter the desired amount for each payment, and on the next screen, select, “recurring.” If you are not able to pledge a recurring donation right now, we of course always appreciate a one-time donation.

THANK YOU TO OUR DEVOTED DONORS FOR YOUR CONTINUED GENEROSITY AND SUPPORT!

Hurrah! The Emma Goldman Papers stands united against hate!

Ever grateful for you generosity and support,

Candace, Dan, and our student staff Gabrielle, Guive, Austin, and Hannah, as well as our faithful local outreach committee.

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The Emma Goldman Papers

University of California, Berkeley

2241 Channing Way

Berkeley, CA 94720-6030

(510) 642-4708

emma@berkeley.edu

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