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Flynn Biography
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Flynn Biography Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was one of the most influential labor organizers of the early 20th century, and was the first female leader of the Communist Party. She lived a colorful life full of success and failure both in her professional and personal life, and dedicated her life to…
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Education & Resources – National Women’s History Museum – NWHM
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Education & Resources – National Women’s History Museum – NWHM Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890-1964)
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Communists in Harlem
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Communists in Harlem Organizing against racism during the Great Depression Communists in Harlem February 24, 2006 WITH THE republication of Mark Naison’s book Communists in Harlem During the Depression (University of Illinois Press, 2005), a new generation of socialists will have the opportunity to learn the lessons of Communist Party’s…
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Notes on the 1946 General Strike
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When people found out that we were making work about Oakland, we were asked one question time and again: “What do you know about the general strike?” The answer was, not much. We’d never heard of it before moving to the city. For us, this video was a way to…
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1946: The Oakland general strike – Stan Weir
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1946: The Oakland general strike – Stan Weir An account by Stan Weir of the gen strike in Oakland, California, in 1946. The Oakland (California) General Strike was an extension of the national strike wave. It was not a ‘called’ strike. Shortly before 5 a.m., Monday, December 3, 1946, the…
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1946 Oakland General Strike – Oakland – LocalWiki
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1946 Oakland General Strike – Oakland – LocalWiki In 1946, the largest general strike in U.S. history took place in Oakland. The strike effectively shut the city down for nearly three days (1946) Protestors surround a mail truck at the Oakland General Strike of 1946 The 1946 Oakland General Strike…
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The 1946 Oakland General Strike
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The 1946 Oakland General Strike The 1946 Oakland general strike began with a dispute at two downtown department stores, Hastings’ and Kahn’s, where 425 clerks (mostly women) were on strike for union recognition.
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The General Strike of 1934 – FoundSF
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The General Strike of 1934 – FoundSF The General Strike of 1934 Historical Essay by Chris Carlsson Strikers shot by police, July 5, 1934
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KCTS 9 – History Making: General Strike
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In 1919, workers in Seattle staged the first general strike in the United States. Sixty thousand union men and women walked off their jobs in shipyards, bakeries, restaurants, and lumber mills. This five day citywide shutdown was an important first step in establishing the power of the worker, and it…
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Seattle General Strike
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Seattle General Strike The Seattle General Strike of February 1919 was the first city-wide labor action in America to be proclaimed a “general strike.” It led off a tumultuous era of post-World War I labor conflict that saw massive strikes shut down the nation’s steel, coal, and meatpacking industries and…
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IWW History Project
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IWW History Project Founded in 1905, the Industrial Workers of the World captured the attention of a generation with its fiery rhetoric, daring tactics, and program of revolutionary industrial unionism. Pledging to replace the narrow craft unionism of the American Federal of Labor with massive industrial unions, the organization grew…
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Save Midtown Rally
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139 Fillmore families are fighting displacement. Midtown tenants have been on rent strike since August 2015, protesting the demolition of their homes, rent hikes 102% on average, and draconian new lease that’s streamlined for eviction, abuse and negligence by Mercy California, and City’s failure to deliver on a Board of…