Thursday, November 11, is Veterans Day, a holiday signed into law by President Dwight Eisenhower in 1954 to honor veterans of the U.S.A.’s wars. On such holidays, we are used to experiencing many patriotic speeches and displays, and lots of American flags waving. But...
After almost two years of dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, the unsafe working conditions, the emotional burden, the lack of support from management, and months of negotiations that are not going anywhere, over thirty thousand Kaiser Permanente workers in Southern...
On Tuesday, November 2nd, 10,000 John Deere workers in the United Auto Workers (UAW) union rejected a second tentative agreement to continue their strike which started on October 14. In a vote of 55% “NO” to 45% “YES,” workers rejected a second offer that the company...
On November 6, 1968, the students of San Francisco State College (now San Francisco State University) began a strike against racism on their campus. Almost four months later it ended in educational reforms that spread across the country. The strike was initiated...
Two years ago, Sudan’s dictator of thirty years Omar al-Bashir was ousted when hundreds of thousands of pro-democracy protesters took to the streets. The military was then pressured by the people and removed him from power. The military leaders and civilian groups...
