"We Were There!” is a multi-media women’s labor history project featuring voices, songs, and slides depicting our sisters’ struggles from abolitionist Sojourner Truth, fighting for women’s rights to Dolores Huerta fighting with the farmworkers of today.

These stories are inspirational, compelling, and exhilarating.

“We Were There!” brings history back to life. Presented in the here and now, “the production is designed to allow local women to step into the shoes of these leaders by taking on their personae and reading their original writings – all against a backdrop formed by larger-than-life images of the women.” (AFL-CIO America@Work, Dec./Jan. 1997-98)

The project was developed for the UALE NE Summer Institute for Union Women, where it has been performed for the last 12 years.

Created by Bev Grant and Flo Stern, long-time union activist and educator, and staff of the UALE NE Summer Institute for Union Women. Flo is currently working with Local 2322, UAW, and living in Western Massachusetts. She has been union staff and president of a union local; on the staff of the UALE NE Summer Institute for the past 16 years, as well as having taught at Hofstra, District 65 program, and Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations (Metropolitan Division)

Music by Bev Grant, veteran social activist, feminist, singer/songwriter from Brooklyn, NY and formerly leader of the band, Human Condition. Currently musical director of the Brooklyn Women’s Chorus, Bev has been the cultural director of the UALE NE Summer Institute for Union Women for the past 11 years. She has recorded 4 albums, including Bev Grant In Tune, and has recorded a companion CD, cassette and songbook for “We Were There!”

See also: www.wewerethere.org for more info!

Listen to title song "We Were There" online!

“We Were There!” is an hour long program available to unions, women’s programs, community groups, and schools and universities. Contact Bev@bevgrant.com for booking info.