“Opportunities for Defiance”: Embracing Guerilla History and Moving Beyond Scott Walker’s Wisconsin
This long submission is an essay submitted originally to Labor: Working Class Studies of the Americas from graduate students at the University of.
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Rights, Solidarity, Justice YouTube Panels
LAWCHA extends a warm, gracious thanks to Daniel Waingarten and all the folks over at Arete Living Arts for filming select sessions of.
- by Ryan Poe
- August 16, 2013
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Obama’s Phoenix comments call for reflection on class and housing issues
Phoenix was perhaps the worst choice for Barack Obama’s recent speech on his plans for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. To many, the.
- by Elizabeth Shermer
- August 15, 2013
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OpEd
How AIDS Changed Everything Recap, 2013 LAWCHA Conference
It’s all too rare that we examine HIV/AIDS and LGBT experiences through the lens of class. Jim Hubbard, Miriam Frank and I took.
- by orion.teal
- July 24, 2013
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OpEd
Cindy Hahamovitch, “The Lessons of Belle Glade,” NYT OpEd
IN 1965, the secretary of labor, Willard Wirtz, stood under a porch light in Belle Glade, Fla., facing a crowd of guest workers.
- by Cindy Hahamovitch
- July 21, 2013
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OpEd
Lisa Levenstein, “Public Deserves to be Heard on Abortion Bill,” News & Record OpEd
Proposed new regulations on abortion providers have nothing to do with protecting women’s health. Nothing demonstrates this quite like the tactics Republican leaders.
- by Lisa Levenstein
- July 18, 2013
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Cruel Summer
Events this summer have further demonstrated a cruel irony of African American life in the glare of the nation’s first black presidency. Specifically,.
- by Clarence Lang
- July 16, 2013
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Campus Labor and the Corporate University: A LaborOnline Forum
Clarence Lang, Forum Organizer: Since the late 1970s, neoliberalism has emerged as the main political-economic organizing principle in the United States and globally..
- by Clarence Lang
- July 9, 2013
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Hunger strike in Philadelphia enters 12th day
Philadelphia is now witnessing the 12th day of a hunger strike among workers and parents protesting the draconian Philadelphia school district budget plan.
- by Jennifer Klein
- June 29, 2013
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Why Labor Needs to Ally with LGBTQ Activists
What should the labor movement do after the recent Supreme Court decisions on the Voting Rights and Defense of Marriage Acts? There has.
- by Elizabeth Shermer
- June 28, 2013