The 24th Annual Bread and Roses Festival!! Labor Day, September 1, 2008 will mark the 24th annual Bread and Roses Festival! We will celebrate Lawrence's labor history and ethnic diversity, and particularly the historic, heroic events of 1912, the Bread and Roses Strike. We celebrate with a variety of music and dance, poetry and drama, ethnic food, historical demonstrations, and walking and trolley tours, all on or starting from Lawrence's Common. We also host organizations continuing the struggle for social justice today. Bread and Roses is the only festival in the region which celebrates the true spirit of Labor Day, in the most appropriate location, the site of the Bread and Roses Strike. And it is the only broadly multicultural festival in Lawrence, the Immigrant City.  For more information contact Jim Beauchesne at Lawrence Heritage Park Tel: 978-794-1655 Email: jim.beauchesne@state.ma.us or breadandroses99@hotmail.com.  Or visit http://www.breadandroses.net/

JwJ needs volunteers to staff our table at the festival.  If you can help email JwJ at jwj@massjwj.net.