{"id":13347,"date":"2010-04-29T09:28:39","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T15:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=13347"},"modified":"2010-04-29T09:28:39","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T15:28:39","slug":"matt-muchowski-wobblies-return-to-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=13347","title":{"rendered":"Matt Muchowski: Wobblies Return to Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Matt Muchowski<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A new tenant has moved in to a street level office space on Irving  Park.  Driving past the office past dark, you can see a neon sign in the  window that reads &#8220;IWW.&#8221;  On closer inspection a number of fliers and  posters are tapped up to the windows, letting passer-by&#8217;s know about  upcoming rallies and benefit concerts.  The Industrial Workers of the  World have returned to Chicago, where under the leadership of a new  General Secretary Treasurer, they hope to revitalize their organization  and the labor movement.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iww.org\/\">Industrial Workers of the World<\/a>,  or as they are often called, the Wobblies, were founded in 1905 in  Chicago.  The first industrial union, they allowed women, minorities,  immigrants, skilled and unskilled workers to join.  The IWW was always  radical, calling for a society where &#8220;from each according to their  ability and to each according to their need,&#8221; was a reality.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/gapersblock.com\/mechanics\/2010\/04\/27\/wobblies-return-to-chicago\/\">Read more<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Muchowski A new tenant has moved in to a street level office space on Irving Park. Driving past the office past dark, you can see a neon sign in the window that reads &#8220;IWW.&#8221; On closer inspection a number &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=13347\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-3th","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13347"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13349,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13347\/revisions\/13349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}