Building a radically engaged library: East Side Freedom Library celebrates second year
Two years ago, founders of St. Paul’s East Side Freedom Library founders Beth Cleary and Peter Rachleff opened the doors to an institution.
Activism
LGBT Advocacy and the AFL-CIO
June is Pride Month in the U.S. Pride, this year, marks the 47th anniversary of Stonewall, and the first year since Obergefell v..
- by Jennifer Eidson
- June 27, 2016
Activism
Labor History
Radical Leisure
Connections, both real and hoped for, between the labor movement and environmentalists have been news for at least fifteen years now. The possibility.
- by Eva Swidler
- June 9, 2016
Activism
OpEd
Gregory N. Heires, “The Union Advantage for Contingent Faculty.” Portside (April 28, 2016)
A new report says faculty and graduate students at 70 colleges have voted to unionize in the past three years. There are close.
- by Ryan Poe
- May 3, 2016
Activism
Global Affairs Articles
Garment Workers are Speaking Out – Will Nike Listen?
Today marks the first day of our countrywide worker speak-out featuring Noi Supalai, a former union President and Nike worker from Thailand. While.
- by Shelton Stromquist
- March 17, 2016
Activism
Labor History
OAH Issues Statement on Collective Bargaining and Part-Time, Adjunct, and Contingent Faculty
At its November 2015 Executive Board meeting, the Organization of American Historians (OAH), passed a resolution endorsing “the principle that collective bargaining can.
- by Ryan Poe
- January 3, 2016
Action Alerts
Activism
(Wisconsin) Rallies Planned to Fight ‘Right-to-Work’ Law
12:00 p.m. Tuesday February 24 and 12:00 p.m. Wednesday February 25, State Street Side of the Capitol. The Senate Committee on Labor and.
- by Ryan Poe
- February 23, 2015
Activism
Help Send Undocumented Student Leaders to Mississippi Freedom Summer 50th Conference
LAWCHA member Bethany Moreton asks all who are able to please donate to Freedom University’s effort to send its students to the 50th.
- by Ryan Poe
- June 25, 2014
Activism
LRAN Website and Email List Redesign
Dear Friends, We are pleased to announce newly redesigned website and listserve for the Labor Research and Action Network, available at http://lranetwork.org. We.
- by Ryan Poe
- April 25, 2014
Activism
Labor History
Donations Needed to Restore the Mother Jones Monument
I often hear from trade unionists who stop at Mother Jones’ gravesite and monument in Mount Olive, Ill., (just off Highway 55, about.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- January 19, 2014