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Starbucks Baristas on the Move! Shareholders Sweating

View this email in your browser Welcome to Solidarity Saturday, your weekly highlight reel and your shortcut to staying plugged in. Quick ICYMI: Starbucks leadership has a problem. And it’s not just baristas saying it. Long-term shareholders sent a letter warning that Starbucks’ “backsliding” labor practices pose a risk to their investments. That’s right. Union […]

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Michael Parenti: Lies, Wars, and Empire

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Pride Picnic Fond du Lac, WI June 28, 2026

Pride Picnic Fond du Lac

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Claudette Colvin and Rosa Parks Helped Ignite the Mass Civil Rights Movement

Two African American women in Alabama during the mid-1950s helped create the political conditions for a years-long assault on racial discrimination, mob violence and state repression By Abayomi AzikiweEditor, Pan-African News WireSaturday February 28, 2026African American History Month Series No. 9 A pioneer in the struggle for equal opportunity and the eradication of racism, Claudette […]

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Labor History film screening in West Allis March 28, 2026

The UAW Local 248 historical marker committee of the Milwaukee Area Labor Council is hosting a film screening at the West Allis Public Library at 3:00 PM on Saturday, March 28th. The screening will include clips from “Turbines, Turmoil, and Tears,” “A Half Century of Struggle: A-C Workers Tell Their Story,” and “Who Paid the […]

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Professor Naomi R Williams to host book talk in Madison March 18, 2026

Professor Naomi R Williams, author of A Blueprint for Worker Solidarity: Class Politics and Community in Wisconsin will be delivering a FREE book talk in Madison on March 18th. Click here for more information and to register. Williams won the WLHS Zeidler Academic Award in 2010 while a graduate student at UW-Madison.

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Stevens Point, March 28, 2026: “U.S. Labor Then and Now” Movie Screening

Join the UW-Madison School for Workers for “U.S. Labor Then and Now” to learn about labor history through film. This event is happening on Saturday, March 28th at 9:00 AM on the UW-Stevens Point campus. WLHS board member and School for Workers professor Ericka Wills will screen films and lead discussion on the following topics: […]