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"How can i leave this fight/ flit off to college/ when so many still suffer."

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"When my eyes blur/ return/ to the work before me/ it is as if blood already flows/ from her fingertips/ and the sticky/ stain of it/ is all over my hands"

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that punched its eyed fang / through her nail.

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we look across the table at one another/ seven women/ six men/ this small but determined force/ that would shake the very foundation/ this city was built upon/ tear it down/ and build it back up again/."

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"I am going tonight,/to petition/for a union of our own.

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"The shops prefer to hire girls/ who will work longer days/ for less pay."

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"At the end of the workday/ after the foreman is done/ checking our pockets/ patting us down/ to be sure you are not stealing/ from the shop"

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"We did it!/The International Ladies'/Garment Workers' Union/Local 25. "

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"The foreman/ clicks across the room/ to swat the back of my head.

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"We do not speak/ about how tomorrow I will break/ Shabbos, how I will be up/ before dawn/ like every other day/ and go to work."

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"i am going tonight,/to petition/ for a union of our own/ will you join us

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"We have a right/to representation/same as you./we are workers/we have rights,/ same as you."

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"Slam/ twist, click./ Locked inside/ a brick box"

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" I cannot attend/ every class/ every lecture/ but if i share what i learn/ with the girls in my shop."

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"It is becoming difficult/ to say nothing."

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"Starting tomorrow/ I will work seven days a week/ ten hours or more/ each day./ I will earn six dollars/ to bring home at the end of each week./ (though I have to buy/ my own needle/ and thread). "

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"One by one/ the foreman/ pats the workers down/ roving over curves and creases/ searching for scraps of fabric or thread or dignity/ that might find there way out/ of the shop."

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"Not one word./ Not a single word./ Clara, you must not say/ one word."

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"A person can rise up/ if she can read/ if she can think/ if she can speak."

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" i say/think of all we stand to gain/if we speak with one voice"

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"breathing air clogged with smoke/ from the coal-burning stove,/ shoulders hunched/ sleep-starved eyes squinting/ at the fabric before them/ ears ringing/ with the/ BANG BANG BANG/ of the machines."

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"We are workers/do we not deserve protection?/ Do we not have rights/just because we are woman?"

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"a rap on the knuckles/if I talk/ a clap on the back of the head/ if I laugh/ a smack on the shoulder/if I so much/ as hum.

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"I could not/ look away/ anymore."

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Nick, Brayden, Riley

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Clara could work to advance women's rights in America/ help the other factory girls. (she is audacious)

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She could prevent any guilt for herself and have a clear conscience.

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There are terrible working conditions in the factory and Clara could work to improve them.