Month: August 2022

https://bit.ly/3RqOHPF Introduction Part I The global context of restructuringFactors in the post-war growth of the capitalist economies. Isolation of the USSR. U.S. efforts to sabotage gas pipeline. Hewett on the “mystery” of Soviet success. Why are imperialists today positive about perestroika? Regressive changes in economic system. Glasnost today and in the Lenin period. How the […]

This week’s Labor History Today podcast: Mother Jones and Fannie Sellins. Last week’s show: Scabby The Rat; Smoking at Work; Which Side Are You On? (Encore).  August 31 10,000 striking miners began a fight at Blair Mountain, W.Va., for recognition of their union, the UMWA. Federal troops were sent in, and miners were forced to withdraw 5 days […]

October 24, 2020 Stephen Millies Every five days, a police dog bites someone in Indianapolis. Just as Black people are twice as likely to be unemployed, 55 percent of those bitten in Indianapolis are African American. That’s double their percentage of the city’s population. These and other facts were revealed in a remarkable investigation by […]

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Building Unity The three-month Building Unity Democracy Tour will end with the Wisconsin Peace Convergence in Milwaukee, WI – Sep. 20 – 23 (National Voter Registration Day, U.N. International Day of Peace, a Voter Engagement Volunteer Day, & the Global Climate Strike)  People from all over Wisconsin will converge with people in the Milwaukee area […]

Event by Building Unity Event: https://fb.me/e/2ddi60nTG Join us for this Labor Day Tour Stop in beautiful downtown Reedsburg! We will have popcorn and lemonade, and if you want to get some ice cream, we won’t be far from the Double Dip Ice Cream Shoppe. Return to this post for more details as we get closer […]

Building Unity The Democracy Tour has been invited to join the Ho-Chunk Nation Pow Wow over Labor Day Weekend. – W8426 Hwy 54 East, Black River Falls, WI Come up and camp with us around the UnityMobile on the Pow Wow grounds or come enjoy the Pow Wow for a few hours. Community Dance on […]