East Bay DSA Should Hit the Ground Running on Bernie 2020Let’s make the most of this opportunity for mass political education and organizational growthNov 28, 2018A response icon1Nov 28, 2018A response icon1
Published inTimelineThe First Black-Led Union Wouldn’t Have Existed Without This WomanBehind the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters was a sisterhoodJun 18, 2018Jun 18, 2018
Published inTimelineThe extraordinary courage of an ordinary woman: Lorena Weeks broke barriers for working womenShe’d been told that men are the breadwinners, so “women just don’t need this type of job”Jun 1, 2018A response icon2Jun 1, 2018A response icon2
Published inTimelineWhen the resistance confronted Democrats in 1968, the crackdown was viciousThe Chicago convention forever changed the partyMay 22, 2018A response icon16May 22, 2018A response icon16
Published inTimelineWelcome to Operation Dixie, the most ambitious unionization attempt in the U.S.Southern segregation, racism and a militarized police meant the plan was destined to failMay 8, 2018A response icon2May 8, 2018A response icon2
Published inTimelineWhite workers in New Orleans opposed segregation — out of self-interestWhen white union members saw the value of uniting with black workers, an alliance was bornMay 1, 2018A response icon5May 1, 2018A response icon5
Published inTimelineWhen this Ivy League school planned a segregated gymnasium, students held the dean hostageStudents and Harlem residents came together to say no to racism, gentrification, and the Vietnam warApr 25, 2018A response icon3Apr 25, 2018A response icon3
Published inTimelineThe richest American family hired terrorists to shoot machine guns at sleeping women and childrenThe Rockefellers took on the striking miners of Ludlow, Colorado but didn’t expect them to fight backApr 3, 2018A response icon35Apr 3, 2018A response icon35
Published inTimelineWhen these women were told they would have to work for starvation wages, they called BSDuring the ‘Bread and Roses’ strike, American immigrants from 40 nations came together to fight the manMar 26, 2018A response icon6Mar 26, 2018A response icon6
Published inTimelineHow poor, mostly Jewish immigrants organized 20,000 and fought for workers’ rightsThese women came ready to fightMar 9, 2018A response icon4Mar 9, 2018A response icon4
