# IWW birthday today

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 27, 2020, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iww-birthday-today/913457 "2020-06-27T22:58:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kropotkin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kropotkin/32/18045_2.png) [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2020, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iww-birthday-today/913457/1 "2020-06-27T22:58:15Z")

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Happy 115th birthday to the Industrial Workers of the World and Doper Wobbly sympathizers!  
“We can bring to earth a new world from the ashes of the old,  
When the Union makes us strong”

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**Author:** ![Kropotkin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kropotkin/32/18045_2.png) [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2020, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iww-birthday-today/913457/2 "2020-06-28T16:39:08Z")

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Day 2 of the IWW founding convention, 28 June 1905, Lucy Parsons said, “Remember that we are here as one brotherhood and one sisterhood, as one humanity, with a responsibility to the down-trodden and the oppressed of all humanity, it matters not under what flag or in what country they happened to be born.”