The missoula free speech fight. So in the fall of, 1909, this woman pictured here, Elizabeth Gurley flynn, made her way to missoula to organize laborers. She was very young, 19 years old, as old, as some of you guys are, maybe even a little bit younger than some of you are. But she and several people were there to organize laborers, and specifically lumber workers in the missoula area. But the outcome of her visit there was not just a battle over rights and working conditions, but ultimately a battle over free speech. The rights to free speech, the right to speak freely in public, to assemble in public without being harassed or arrested or jailed. So in this, were going to were going to get into the details of what actually happened in missoula. But i also want to start out a little more broadly talk about the context of this period and whats leading up to this battle, whats shaping it, and then in the aftermath, talk a little about what happened to some of these people that were invol
The missoula free speech fight. So in the fall of, 1909, this woman pictured here, Elizabeth Gurley flynn, made her way to missoula to organize laborers. She was very young, 19 years old, as old, as some of you guys are, maybe even a little bit younger than some of you are. But she and several people were there to organize laborers, and specifically lumber workers in the missoula area. But the outcome of her visit there was not just a battle over rights and working conditions, but ultimately a battle over free speech. The rights to free speech, the right to speak freely in public, to assemble in public without being harassed or arrested or jailed. So in this, were going to were going to get into the details of what actually happened in missoula. But i also want to start out a little more broadly talk about the context of this period and whats leading up to this battle, whats shaping it, and then in the aftermath, talk a little about what happened to some of these people that were invol
The missoula free speech fight. So in the fall of, 1909, this woman pictured here, Elizabeth Gurley flynn, made her way to missoula to organize laborers. She was very young, 19 years old, as old, as some of you guys are, maybe even a little bit younger than some of you are. But she and several people were there to organize laborers, and specifically lumber workers in the missoula area. But the outcome of her visit there was not just a battle over rights and working conditions, but ultimately a battle over free speech. The rights to free speech, the right to speak freely in public, to assemble in public without being harassed or arrested or jailed. So in this, were going to were going to get into the details of what actually happened in missoula. But i also want to start out a little more broadly talk about the context of this period and whats leading up to this battle, whats shaping it, and then in the aftermath, talk a little about what happened to some of these people that were invol
Old, as old, as some of you guys are, maybe even a little bit younger than some of you are. But she and several people were there to organize laborers, and specifically lumber workers in the missoula area. But the outcome of her visit there was not just a battle over rights and working conditions, but ultimately a battle over free speech. The rights to free speech, the right to speak freely in public, to assemble in public without being harassed or arrested or jailed. So in this, were going to were going to get into the details of what actually happened in missoula. But i also want to start out a little more broadly talk about the context of this period and whats leading up to this battle, whats shaping it, and then in the aftermath, talk a little about what happened to some of these people that were involved in this free speech battle. What happened to some of the questions around, free speech and a little bit broadly the significance of this missoula is free speech battle. All right.
Announcer live where you live, this is abc7 news. I guess theyre cooling down and theyr cracking, and we have neighbors stuck inside their buildings. Shattered glass means another frustrating night for residents near the scene of fridays construction fire. Good evening. Im eric thomas. It was the last way residents who live across from fridays inferno wanted to spent their sunday. Shattering glass from an Office Building near the scene of fridays fire at this construction site in uptown oakland forced residents to shelter in place or leave their homes entirely. Leslie brinkley is live at the corner of harrison and 23rd with the latest developments. Reporter eric, i was standing right here this afternoon, and you could hear in this block the crackling sound, the breaking glass falling off the glass panels on the side of an Office Building. Across the street, this apartment building, and thats where some people ended up getting, you could say, trapped. We hoisted a microphone up to the s