Ginger Goodwin Memorial Day
I went to Miner's Memorial Day in Cumberland this
June 27th. There were over 200 people there, mainly
from the unions, the NDP and the Communist Party.
We had a ceremony at Ginger Goodwin's grave
and Gord Carter, a Cumberland singer/song writer
sang about Ginger and
the miners. I met IWW members from Vancouver,
Victoria and Portland. The Portland Wob laid some flowers
on Miner's Row, a mass grave of miners
too badly burned to be recognized. Also met a group
of young socialists from Fight Back.
Later we had a supper in a hall next to the Cumberland
Museum and there was a lot of good music. My friends
Jim and Janette and I even got to do the Ginger Goodwin Song,
a poem that I had found and that we set to music.
All-in-all a fine time and made a lot of contacts
For More info on Ginger Goodwin See
http://www.carpentersunionbc.com/Pages/gingergoodwin.html
posted by Larry Gambone at
10:32 PM
3 Comments:
It looked like a good event. I'd like to have been there.
Is this the first time you met Fightback?
Wish you could have made it! It was a good event, uniting a broad spectrum of working class politics. This is the first time I have encountered Fightback. Their speech at the grave site was the only revolutionary one and I complemented the speaker for it. Fightback is made up of really young people, like the SDS folks I met back in April and the anarchists I met in Santiago, Chile. They invited me back to their camp to attend the meeting they were putting on, but I could not go, seeing as I was attending the dinner and music. They and the IWW were the most militant of the socialist groups in attendance. Next year I plan to camp out as a large section of a campground was filled with people who went to the event.
Great pictures! Looks like it was a great time.
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