2013-2014 LAWCHA Election Results
The Elections Committee has reported the results of the annual election to the Executive Committee, and we are very pleased to announce the.
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So the UAW Lost, What Can Be Done? Some History Lessons.
In the aftermath of the UAW loss in the Volkswagen union election in Tennessee, declarations of “A Titanic Defeat” echo across the blogosphere..
- by Rosemary Feurer
- February 16, 2014
LAWCHA
Remember a President for Free Labor
Reflections about the importance of workers power in American aspirations seem particularly appropriate at the approach of this President’s Day–that holiday formed by.
- by Mark Lause
- February 15, 2014
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Leftwing cartoons and comics offer unique view of mid 20th century
This new book of political cartoons, In an Era of Wars and Revolutions: American Socialist Cartoons of the Mid-Twentieth Century, edited by Sean.
- by Paul Buhle
- February 13, 2014
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UIC United Faculty on Front Lines of Crisis in Higher Ed
University of Illinois-Chicago United Faculty (UICUF) have announced that they will launch a 2 day strike Feb 18 and 19. In the Fall,.
- by Elizabeth Shermer
- February 5, 2014
LAWCHA
The Elk River Spill — Capitalism at its “best”
On the morning of Thursday, January 9, 2014, 7500 gallons of a coal cleaning chemical known as Crude MCHM (principally composed of 4-methylcyclohexanemethanol).
- by Gordon Simmons
- January 30, 2014
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LAWCHA at the OAH, Atlanta 2014
LAWCHA has two main events at this year’s OAH. We encourage all LAWCHA members to attend the public Friday night activist plenary organized.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- January 24, 2014
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Celebrating MLK Day: Dream Defenders, Moral Mondays, and the Fight for 15
Another national observance of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday is upon us. I know that I’m speaking to the choir here when I.
- by Clarence Lang
- January 20, 2014
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People
Former LAWCHA President Mike Honey publishes Sharecropper’s Troubadour: John L. Handcox, the Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union, and the African American Song Tradition
Descended from African American slaves, Native Americans, and white slaveowners, John Handcox was born at one of the hardest times and places to.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- January 17, 2014