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Today in labor history: Vietnam war protests, draft card burned
On Oct. 15, 1965, a young Catholic Worker activist, David Miller, burned his draft card in protest of the U.S. war in Vietnam, becoming the first antiwar activist to challenge a law banning the act. Miller was later arrested by the FBI, found guilty at trial and sentenced to two years in prison. The student-run […]
- By : Teresa Albano
- October 15, 2012
Chicago teachers educate a nation
It was nine days that shook Chicago – and the nation. Twenty-five thousand public school teachers, guidance counselors, speech-language pathologists, social workers, nurses and other professionals, members of Chicago Teachers Union Local 1, stood up and said with one voice, “Enough!” Left with no other choice by an intransigent Board of Education and a politically […]
- By : PW Editorial
- September 21, 2012
Today in labor history … Emma Goldman, IWW, anti-racism and more
1833 Prudence Crandall, a white woman, is arrested for conducting an academy for black women in Canterbury, Conn. 1869 Women’s rights activist and anarchist Emma Goldman was born in Lithuania. She came to the United States when she was 17. 1872 Paul Laurence Dunbar, African-American poet and writer, was born in Dayton, Ohio. 1880 Helen […]
- By : PW Editorial Board
- June 27, 2012
Wisconsin: The uprising, the recall, and the fight to come
For the labor movement and its allies, today’s recall election of Wisconsin’s Republican Gov. Scott Walker and other lawmakers is only part of a groundswell of inspiring actions that began with a historic uprising early in 2011. Walker came into office in the 2010 elections along with tea party, anti-union, and anti-public worker lawmakers who […]
- By : John Wojcik
- June 5, 2012
After 44 days, killer of Trayvon Martin charged
Forty-four days after 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was gunned down while walking to his father’s home in Sanford, Fla., his killer, George Zimmerman, has finally been charged with second-degree murder. Florida special prosecutor Angela B. Corey announced the charge April 11. Zimmerman, who has claimed the killing of the unarmed teen was in self-defense, appeared briefly […]
- By : Teresa Albano
- April 12, 2012
U.S. mum on humanitarian visit for Cuban 5 prisoner
The lawyer for Rene Gonzalez, one of the Cuban 5 political prisoners held in the United States, filed an emergency motion in federal court Feb. 24 seeking a two-week humanitarian visit to Havana to visit his brother who reportedly is seriously ill with cancer. “Travel for Rene is not for political purposes, but purely on […]
- By : Teresa Albano
- March 5, 2012
Veterans Day 2011: Demand action on jobs
PeoplesWorld.org marks this Veterans Day with a question to the Republicans in Congress who are determined to block President Barack Obama’s American Jobs Act. Americans demand action on jobs. On this Veterans Day, how can you live with yourselves when you deny women and men who served this country some help in getting a job […]
- By : Special to People’s World
- November 10, 2011
Troy Davis and the new abolitionists
Among Troy Davis’s last words were “I am innocent.” He said them while strapped down on a death chamber gurney Sept. 21 in Georgia’s Jackson State Prison, looking at the family of slain police officer Mark MacPhail. “It’s a sad day. There’s nothing to rejoice,” said Joan MacPhail-Harris, the widow of the victim. His […]
- By : PW Editorial Board
- September 23, 2011
Feds show Massey faked safety records in deadly W Va mine
BEAVER, W.Va. (AP) – Federal investigators say they have proof that Massey Energy kept fake safety records to throw off inspectors at a West Virginia coal mine where 29 men died last year, the deadliest U.S. coal field disaster in four decades. In a private briefing June 28, officials with the Mine Safety and Health […]
- By : Vicki Smith
- June 29, 2011
Pete Seeger on the power of songs, an interview
Part 1 of a 3-part story Today is Pete Seeger’s 92nd birthday. Happy birthday Pete! David Kupfer visited with Pete Seeger just before his 90th birthday in the spring of 2009, on a warm afternoon. The home he shares with his wife Toshi overlooks the Hudson River and Denny’s Point near Beacon, New York. This […]
- By : David Kupfer
- May 5, 2011