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How Did Amazon Workers Go Against a Rich Corporation and Win? Look Back 100 Years.
We don’t need to overanalyze it. It came down to genuine solidarity that the Amazon Labor Union organizing committee built among themselves and their co-workers.
by
Kim Kelly
via
NBC News
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April 4, 2022
Maida Springer Kemp Championed Workers’ Rights on a Global Scale
The Panamanian garment worker turned labor organizer, Pan-Africanist, and anti-colonial activist advocated for US and African workers amid a Cold War freeze.
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Kim Kelly
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The Nation
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February 4, 2022
The Militant Passion of Emma Tenayuca
84 years ago this week, this Mexican American labor organizer led one of the largest strikes in Texas history—and was arrested and blacklisted for her trouble.
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Kim Kelly
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The Nation
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February 1, 2022
The Indomitable Rev. Addie L. Wyatt
The trailblazing Black labor leader and civil rights activist took her fight for equality from the packinghouse to the pulpit.
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Kim Kelly
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The Nation
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on
January 11, 2022
Picket Lines in the Graveyard
A history of cemetery workers' strikes.
by
Kim Kelly
via
Protean
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October 31, 2021
The Singing Left
At a recent commemoration of the Battle of Blair Mountain in West Virginia, songs of struggle took center stage.
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Kim Kelly
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The Baffler
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on
September 21, 2021
A Forgotten War on Women
Scott W. Stern’s book documents a decades-long program to incarcerate “promiscuous” women.
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Kim Kelly
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The New Republic
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on
May 22, 2018
San Francisco’s Queen of Abortions Gets Her Moment of Recognition
Two new biographies look at the life of Inez Burns, an uncompromising and extravagant turn-of--the-century woman.
by
Kim Kelly
via
The Outline
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February 6, 2018