View of downtown Spokane circa 1911.
Though it may be hard to imagine today, Spokane was once a hotbed of labor radicalism. And for a month November of 1909 all eyes of the nation were trained on the city for outlawing speaking in public. Hundreds of men and women who came to the city to challenge the seemingly un-American policy were thrown in jail. Well before 1909, the West had ceased being the land of opportunity advertised in railroad circulars; the fertile farmland and hillsides filled with gold had long since been locked up by big business. The thousands of immigrants, then, were left to working whatever wages were available. Thus the tension between labor and capital a tension as old as the idea of private ownership came out West.
because then you look down the road and you say he s going to use that as his defense in the criminal case that it wasn t just me, but i m the only one on the hook. let me put you on hold no. never mind. in terms of where we go from here, you are working with jonathan moore on a different case and you will work with him on this case, as well. is the family going to bring a civil suit against the state of new york? that s up to attorney moore and i m working on the gurley case where a man was killed on the stairway. that officer had been indicted and then with this track record of ferguson and ohio and new york, i don t know what scenario we can present where an officer will be held accountable for killing a minority or person of color. we haven t seen it. i want to break in right now, if i can. apparently president obama is discussing this issue right now. let s take a listen. i m not interested in talk. i m interested in action, and i