POCKET GUIDE TO HELL

Paul Durica of Pocket Guide to Hell Tours
     in partnership with

The Illinois Labor History Society
Haymarket Pub & Brewery
Drinking & Writing Theater
Fulton River District Association
Version 11: The Community

announces LET THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE BE HEARD!
a full-scale reenactment of the Haymarket Affair

2pm: The Illinois Labor History Society dedicates a new plaque
3pm: THE REENACTMENT
4pm: afterparty at Haymarket Pub & Brewery

FREE AND OPEN TO EVERYONE!
COSTUMES & PROPS WILL BE PROVIDED

In 1886, many Americans labored 14 hours days, 6 days a week, for wages that couldn’t support a family. On May 1^st, workers across the country went on strike for an 8 hour day – and in Chicago on May 4^th, the fight led to a bomb being thrown, 8 police dying, and 8 labor leaders going on trial. The incident divided the country and continues to be debated but also led to May Day, the international labor holiday on May 1^st.

Many communities lay claim to some part of the story, but it belongs to all of us and feels especially relevant in the current moment.  Given what’s going on today in our country, we need to remember this part of our past as much as something like the Civil War.

To honor the 125^th anniversary of the Haymarket Affair, a full-scale Reenactment will be staged on the original site. We will remember the 16 men and countless others, workers and police, who were present that day but whose identities will never be known. Groups from all across the city will come together to remind folks of past struggles here in Chicago, and the need to work together in the present.

Participants include THE ANARCHISTS: Alma Washington, Matt LaPierre, Drew Dir, Lydia Laurenson, Kenneth Morrison, Nat Ward, Paul Durica, Mason Johnson, Steve Mosqueda

Kevin Robinson as MAYOR CARTER HARRISON, Brant Veilleux as SHERIFF MATSON, Ed Marszewski as CAPT. WILLIAM WARD, Pete Crowley as OFFICER MATTHIAS DEGAN

THE HISTORIAN: Tim Samuelson (and associates)

THE BAND: Environmental Encroachment

THE TROUBADOR: Jon Langford

POLICE represented by The Illinois Labor History Society, Haymarket Pub & Brewery, Drinking & Writing Theater, The Nightingale, Public Media Institute, Columbia College’s Center for Book + Paper Arts, the University of Chicago’s Chicago Studies Program, Newberry Library, Chicago Underground Library, Anatomy Collective, Homeroom, The Chicagoan, Dance Dance Party Party, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, featherproof books, Literacy Works, University of Chicago’s Graduate Students United, The Hideout, ACM, The Op Shop, Green Lantern, Quimby’s, plus cartoonists (Capt. Laura Park), comedians (Capts. Seth Dodson and Emerson Dameron), visual artists (Capt. Sayward Schoonmaker), writers (Capt. Fred Sasaki), generally wonderful people (Capts. James Tate, Joe Klinger, L. Wyatt) + others TBA

Want to get involved? email pocketguidetohell@gmail.com
We’ll help you form a team of police, anarchists, or spectators – your choice 

Please help us fund the project on Kickstarter! http://kck.st/dMNRlR
Every donation is appreciated, and every donation gets a prize

This is a peaceful, respectful reenactment – free and open to everyone

Questions? Email pocketguidetohell@gmail.com or call 425 241 8881

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Paul Durica founded Pocket Guide to Hell in Hyde Park, 2008. Past tours and reenactments include Ben Reitman’s Hobohemia!, Leopold and Loeb, and the 1915 Parade of the Unemployed at the Hull-House Museum. Pocket Guide to Hell has been featured in places like TimeOut, The Onion A/V Club, Huffington Post, and The New York Times.

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Special thanks to Zach Dodson and April Sheridan for their designs, Mairead Case for publicity, Michelle Faust, Kenneth Morrison, and Nat Ward for prop and costume design – & YOU!