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Mother Earth Booklet - Emma Goldman - April 1907 - VERY RARE!
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Mother Earth Booklet - Emma Goldman - April 1907 - VERY RARE!volume II, No. 2
Most issues extant have only text on the cover so any illustrated covers are especially unusual.
8"x5 3/8"
condition: very excellent overall, with bend at upper right, nice tight binding. Now bound by two staples which have been there for quite some time, but possibly thread bound at one time?
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On June 15, 1917, Congress passed the Espionage Act. The law set punishments for acts of interference in US foreign policy and espionage. The Act authorized stiff fines and prison terms of up to 20 years for anyone who obstructed the military draft or encouraged "disloyalty" to the U.S. government. After Goldman and Berkman continued to advocate against conscription, Goldman's offices at
Mother Earth
were thoroughly searched by Department of Justice agents, and they seized volumes of files and detailed subscription lists from
Mother Earth.
Goldman and 258 of her followers were rounded up by the Department of Justice and deported to the Soviet Union in 1919. It is likely the vast majority of these booklets were destroyed in that period to avoid being linked to Goldman or in the aftermath of DOJ raids and arrests.
- Wikipedia
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Emma Goldman dedicated her life to the creation of a radically new social order. Convinced that the political and economic organization of modern society was fundamentally unjust, she embraced anarchism for the vision it offered of liberty, harmony and true social justice. For decades, she struggled tirelessly against widespread inequality, repression and exploitation.
Goldman's deep commitment to the ideal of absolute freedom led her to espouse a wide range of controversial causes. A fiery orator and a gifted writer, she became a passionate advocate of freedom of expression, sexual freedom and birth control, equality and independence for women, radical education, union organization and workers' rights.
-The Jewish Women's Archive
