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Howard Zinn Centennial – 1922-2022

The year 2022 marks the 100th anniversary of Howard Zinn’s birth on August 24, 1922, in Brooklyn. At Teaching for Change, our work has and continues to be informed by Zinn’s scholarship in many ways. Zinn helped launch the Zinn Education Project in 2008, which we coordinate along with Rethinking Schools. Zinn was an advisor for […]

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Free Our Elder Political Prisoners! #FreeMutuluNow – #FreeMumia

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July 23 – The 1913 Michigan Copper Miners Strike Begins

Podcast: https://bit.ly/3bataLn On this day in labor history, the year was 1913. That was the day 9,000 copper miners in the Keweenaw region of Upper Peninsula, Michigan went on strike. Organized by the Western Federation of Miners, the strike raged on for over eight months, witnessed devastating tragedy in a Christmas Day fire and ended […]

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Detroit, July 25, 2022: (Online) Moratorium NOW! Coalition/MECAWI Weekly Organizing Meeting

Join our weekly grassroots organizing meeting for Mon. July 25, 2022, beginning at 7:00pm. Event: https://fb.me/e/1L5gsmx9g Event by Moratorium NOW! Coalition The meeting is our last planning and evaluation session for the month. This week represents the 55th anniversary of the Great Detroit Rebellion of July 1967. We continue to salute the fighters of 1967 […]

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Workers Across the U.S. Fighting for Their Unions, Numerous Organizing Campaigns Underway

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Milwaukee County Supervisors Support YES Lunch Justice Campaign, Declare Food Is A Human Right

By: Isiah Holmes – July 12, 2022 Milwaukee County Supervisors Juan Miguel Martinez and Ryan Clancy have announced they’re standing in solidarity with student activists from Youth Empowered in the Struggle (YES). Acting as the youth arm of Voces de la Frontera, YES student activists have been pushing to reform the lunches served at Milwaukee […]

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2,500 St. Louis Machinists Union Members to Strike Boeing Aug. 1, 2022

ST. LOUIS, July 24, 2022 – Nearly 2,500 members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) District 837 have voted to strike the Boeing Co. in St. Louis. IAM District 837, which represents workers at three Boeing Defense locations, released the following statement regarding the rejection of the company’s offer: “Our members have spoken […]