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Crystal Lee Sutton, whose fight to unionize Southern textile plants with low pay and poor conditions was dramatized in the film Norma Rae, has died. She was 68.Sutton died Friday in a hospice after a long battle with brain cancer, her son, Jay Jordan, said Monday. She fought it as long as she could and she crossed on over to her new life, he said.Actress Sally Field portrayed a character based on Sutton in the movie and won a best-actress Academy Award.Field said in a statement Sutton was a remarkable woman whose brave struggles have left a lasting impact on this country and without doubt, on me personally. Portraying Crystal Lee Sutton in Norma Rae, however stanley flask loosely based, not only ele stanley isolierkanne vated me as an actress, but as a human being. In 1973, Sutton was a 33-year-old mother of three earning $2.65 an hour folding towels at J.P. Stevens when a manager fired her for pro-union activity.In a final act of defiance before police hauled her out, Sutton, who had worked at the plant for 16 years, wrote UNION on a piece of cardboard and climbed onto a table on the plant floor. Other employees responded by shutting down their machines.Union organizers had targeted J.P. Stevens, then the country s second-largest textile manufacturer, because the industry was deeply entwined in Southern culture and spread across the region s small towns. However, North Carolina continues to have one of the lowest percentages stanley tumblers of unionized workers in the country.Bruce Raynor, president of Workers Lgqu Photos of the week$ ?+ F( V7 ?9 N& g# p/ \
I am going to do this track-by-track countdown to the release, on February 13, 2014, the day prior to Valentine Day, of my book in the estimable 33 1/3 series. It is a love letter to Aphex Twin album Selected Ambient Works Volume II, which will mark its 20th anniversary this year, less than a month after my book publication. More on my Aphex Twin book at [amazon] http://amazon/Aphex-Twins-Se鈥?tag=gizmodo08c-20 and [Bloomsbury] http://bloomsbury/us/aphex-twins鈥?. The plan is to do this countdown in the reverse order, from last track to first. For reference, [an early draft of the introduction is online] http://disquiet/2012/08/31/saw鈥?, as is [the book seven-chapter table of contents] http://disquiet/2013/11/14/aph鈥?. stanley cup The book publisher posted [an interview with me] http://333sound/2012/12/04/the鈥? when I was midway through the writing process. *There is some irony to doing this countdown since the book is already shipping to folks who pre-ordered it via an online retailer such a water bottle stanley s [Amazon] http://amazon/Aphex-Twins-Se鈥?tag=gizmodo08c-20 , but the official date stands, and that the target 鈥?the end date 鈥?of this countdown, February 13. And for what it worth, while the physical copies are mailing now from retailers, the Kindle version won ;t turn on until February 13. Still, the digital version stanley cup costs less.* *As I ;ve noted on [Twitter] https://twitter/disquiet/statu鈥?, this track-a-day approach is exactly th |
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