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Saving Trees and Jobs in the Redwood Empire

Eyewitness Report Lumber workers speak against over-cutting by Peter Shapiro Fort Bragg, California For generations, the virgin redwoods and Douglas fir of California’s North Coast provided lumber for the nation, jobs for local communities, and a life support system for... Read More »

Along the lower Mississippi

Workers, environmentalists & Black community join forces against toxics by Peter Shapiro The BASF petrochemical plant stands along the lower Mississippi River in the small, mainly African American town of Geismar, midway between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Louisiana. A... Read More »

Postal workers fight for child care

A roundtable Unity interview in San Francisco, California SAN FRANCISCO – The mail moves 24 hours a day. In postal facilities across the U.S., thousands of workers — many of them single parents or with young children — work evening... Read More »

Mildred Deel: Photograper

Interview by Bernice Wuetrich Mildred Deel, of Southwestern Virginia, is known throughout this Appalachian region as a photographer and friend to hundreds of coal miners and their families. Mildred is a postal worker, a mother, and a grandmother. Her son... Read More »

Victory in Georgia textile

News Analysis African American women unionize in the rural South Contributed LOUISVILE & WAYNESBORO, GA. – On Oct. 13, 18 months after voting to join the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU), 600 workers at the Samsons and Delila... Read More »

Organizing the South’s “Sweatshirt Capital”

First-hand account of in-plant union drive MARTINSVILLE, VA. — In one of the largest industrial organizing campaigns of recent years, 3,000 textile workers at the Tultex Corporation began organizing a union this past June. Tultex and several other companies here... Read More »

L.A. teachers strike: ‘Stand and Deliver’

A victorious struggle for dignity and quality education Ed Gallegos LOS ANGELES — On May 25, the cavernous L.A. Sports Arena shook to the strains of “Solidarity Forever,” as thousands of teachers brought a victorious end to a ten-day strike... Read More »

Factories in the home

Garment workers testify against abusive conditions Mary Ann Helmann, Contributed LOS ANGELES — Sonia Galan sat in the living room of the small one-bedroom house she shares with her husband and 11-month-old daughter in the barrio of El Serena. Nearby... Read More »

Women Farm Workers in Matagalpa

EYEWITNESS REPORT Hammering out union’s response to Nicaragua’s economic problems Alan Ross, Contributed MATAGALPA PROVINCE, NICARAGUA — One September morning here, Unity got a glimpse of Nicaraguan democracy in action when 300 women farm workers gathered to discuss the union’s... Read More »

Let McFarland’s children live!

Rural town faces childhood cancer and poisoned water Evaristo Garza McFarland, California Amidst the fields and orchards of the San Joaquin Valley lies this small Kern County town where at least 17 children have contracted cancer in the past five... Read More »

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Archives

Saving Trees and Jobs in the Redwood Empire

Along the lower Mississippi

Postal workers fight for child care

Mildred Deel: Photograper

Victory in Georgia textile

Organizing the South’s “Sweatshirt Capital”

L.A. teachers strike: ‘Stand and Deliver’

Factories in the home

Women Farm Workers in Matagalpa

Let McFarland’s children live!

CHANCE OF A LIFETIME
Oral History Project

GETTING TOGETHER PUBLICATIONS

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CHANCE OF A LIFETIME Oral History Project

GETTING TOGETHER PUBLICATIONS

AMIRI BARAKA

CHANCE OF A LIFETIME
Oral History Project