Stone Soup Saturday Meal

Saturday, September 3, 2022, 12:00 pm until 1:30 pm
399 Main Street, Greenfield, MA - Red Door on Hope Street

Join us this Saturday for Summer's last celebration - Labor Day!

Summer's last celebration is here

A time to lift up workers everywhere

A time to reflect on all our needs

A time to be grateful- yes indeed!

Celebrated each year on the first Monday in September, this holiday was born amid violence and unrest over oppressive working conditions. Labor Day is meant to honor not just the individual worker, but what workers accomplish together through activism and organizing. In the 1880s, workers marched down the streets and spoke truth to power. They commiserated over dismal working conditions and demanded justice. Their goals were not unrealistic: a livable wage, a safe environment, and eight-hour workdays.

The national holiday emerged in 1894, but did not improve conditions for the people it sought to honor, and was little more than lip service from politicians. As the U.S. House Committee on Labor said in its 1894 report on the legislation: “So long as the laboring man can feel that he holds an honorable as well as a useful place in the body politic, so long will he be a loyal and faithful citizen.” It would take another 44 years for the U.S. to set a minimum wage, mandate a shorter workweek, and limit child labor with the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act.

You know every Saturday?is a special day,

When you eat a meal from? your Hometown Cafe!?

Delivery or Take Out only, That's the deal!?

Love, Chef Kirsten

---> Pay-What-You-Can for your meal

---> Volunteer at the cafe

---> Have your meals delivered! bit.ly/reserve-a-meal

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What does Stone Soup Café mean to you?

Call and leave a voicemail on our Story Hotline: (413) 376-8277!