March 30th is the anniversary of the day in 1918 when Chicago stockyard workers won the eight hour work day. Victory was won by determined effort, but there were unique […]
The Past Isn’t Past: First ACT-UP Demonstration, Wall Street, 19...
March 24th is the anniversary of the first AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) demonstration on Wall Street-the world’s financial center. Their target: Big pharma profiteering from the AIDS pandemic. […]
The Past Isn’t Past: Mutiny on the SS Columbia Eagle (Vietnam Wa...
March 14th is the anniversary of the 1970 mutiny of the SS Columbia Eagle. Two men, civilian merchant marines, seized their ship with a cargo of napalm and ordered it […]
The Past Isn’t Past: Ford Hunger March Massacre of 1932
March 7th is the anniversary of the Ford Hunger March of 1932. Three thousand unemployed workers marched with fourteen demands, including jobs for laid off employees, the right to organize […]
The Past Isn’t Past: Ship repair firm Signal guilty of trafficki...
February 19th is the anniversary of the day in 2015 that a US court found ship repair firm Signal guilty of discriminating against and trafficking five hundred Indian workers. The […]
The Past Isn’t Past: Underground Railroad Whisks “Fugitive...
February 15th is the anniversary of the escape of formerly enslaved person Shadrach Minkins from Boston to Canada. He was the first person seized in New England under the Fugitive […]
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