About the Harry Bridges Project
The project is dedicated to introducing the public to the life and ideas of Harry Bridges and his impact on our lives today.
Bridges was an extraordinary labor leader and social visionary whose life and work encompassed all of the important issues and events of his day, including immigration, depression-era policies, red-scares, McCarthyism, the cold-war and labor issues. His story provides a springboard into understanding these times and realizing their significance today, as we face parallel issues of globalization, the growing gap between rich and poor, increasing governmental surveillance and the war on terror. His life inspires people to come together in their communities, discover their own history and take charge of their own lives by engaging in dialogue and debate about these issues in order to move beyond the fears and limitations they can create.
We believe it is vitally important that:
- the American public realizes its own great contribution to the development of America and is aware of the struggles that parents and grandparents went through to build better lives for future generations.
- today’s high school and college students have a deeper understanding of these events.
- today’s children understand and value their own past, and see it as interesting and integral to their lives today.
“The struggle of man against power
is the struggle of memory against forgetting”
--Milan Kundera
The Harry Bridges Project is a 501(c) 3 non-profit organization. All donations to our project are tax deductible to the full extent allowed by law.