After this week’s Coordinating Committee meeting, Lowell showed us a pamphlet that was published by the Sojourner Truth Organization a year after the general strike in France in the spring of 1968. See “General Strike France 1968: A factory-by-factory account,” by Andrée Hoyles. The Introduction by Sojourner Truth Organization: In May of 1968, France was […]
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Our committee and meetings are now listed on FindProgress.org, a website that lists events and websites for a number of Colorado organizations. FindProgress bills itself as “an one-stop-shop for Progressive Activist Groups, Political Parties & other entities.”
Ric Urrutia (who at our 2/25 consulta passed around a photograph of May Day 2006 in Denver) will speak on the origins of International Workers’ Day, labor theory/history, and the May 1, 2006 immigrant workers general strike in the U.S. He is a local artist, and former union researcher and organizer. Note that Ric’s teach-in […]
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The worker occupation of Serious Energy on 2/23 led to an agreement with corporate bosses to postpone closing the Chicago plant for 90 days while the union, UE, considers buying the plant. The plant—formerly Republic Windows and Doors, which was occupied in 2008—was to shut down and “consolidate manufacturing” in Boulder, Colorado (see map here) […]