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Labor & Workers’ Day Readings

This is an archive of public readings selected for demonstrating worker’s rights as commemorated in civic days such as International Workers’ Day, Labour Day (in Canada), and Labor Day in the United States, celebrated on the first Monday of September.

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💬 A New Declaration of Independence, by Emma Goldman (1909)

A New Declaration of Independence by Emma Goldman. . . .

Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., political and religious anarchism, civil declarations and charters, internationalism

Contributor(s): Emma Goldman and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

💬 Universal Declaration of Animal Rights (ILAR, revised 1989)

The Universal Declaration of Animal Rights (UDAR) was first proclaimed in Paris on 15 October 1978 at the headquarters of UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) with the ambition of it being formally adopted in the United Nations General Assembly. The French League of Animal Rights spurred the development of a revised text written during the General Assembly of the International League of Animal Rights, held June 3–4, 1989 in Luxembourg, and adopted on October 21, 1989. The declaration was submitted to the UNESCO Director General in 1990 however it has never been formally adopted. . . .

Categories: Modern Miscellany, Labor & Workers' Day Readings, Rosh haShanah la-Behemah Readings

Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., animals, civil declarations and charters, liberty, Needing Translation (into Hebrew), שבע מצות בני נח Seven Noaḥide Commandments, צער באלי חיים tsa'ar baalei ḥayyim

Contributor(s): International League of Animal Rights and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

💬 Proklamation der Grundrechte der Tiere | Proclamation of Fundamental Animal Rights | Proclamation des Droits Fondamentaux de L’animal (Die Grünen Bundesarbeitsgruppe “Mensch und Tier,” April 1989)

A Proclamation of Fundamental Animal Rights drafted by the West German Green Party in 1989 upon the 200th anniversary of the “Declaration of the Rights of Man” (1789), in German with translations in English, French, and Portuguese. . . .

Categories: Modern Miscellany, Labor & Workers' Day Readings, Rosh haShanah la-Behemah Readings

Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., animals, civil declarations and charters, English Translation, French translation, liberty, Needing Translation (into Hebrew), Portuguese translation, שבע מצות בני נח Seven Noaḥide Commandments, צער באלי חיים tsa'ar baalei ḥayyim

Contributor(s): die Grünen (Bundesarbeitsgruppe "Mensch und Tier") and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

💬 קריאות לימי העבודה | Torah and Haftarah Readings for Days Recognizing Organized Labor and Labor Rights, compiled by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer

This is a Torah reading (divided into three aliyot) and a Haftarah reading to be recited on a national labor holiday. The aliyot are from Vayakhel, describing the construction of the Tabernacle. . . .

Categories: Labor & Workers' Day Readings

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., American Jewry of the United States

Contributor(s): Isaac Gantwerk Mayer

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