General strike

occupy poster : general strike : josh macphee

The Occupy movement hopes to stage an ambitious protest this May Day -- and make a comeback for 2012

The Red Scare

General Strike poster

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The women’s general strike provides us a historic moment to call upon all patriots in office to vigorously support our country and to defend us against our enemies.

The general strike meant that other industries also went on strike to support the workers. Unions joined together to form an alliance and help each other bring about change. They were more powerful as a large unified group than as small individual unions. This is how the IWW was able to help the ship builders and their small unions bring change to powerful owners and their employers.

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Poster, 'It's All Ours! With the General Strike for Industrial Freedom' by Carlos Cortez. Chicago, 1974.

Original poster produced by Occuprint in 2012 as part of the “General Strike” initiative of Occupy Wall Street to bring together Occupy, labor, and immigrant movements in order shut down... Read More »

The second part of our activity series, for middle level students, focuses on women in the workforce and feminism after enfranchisement.

Posts about 1969 strike written by Matthew W

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The General strike -the people united shall never be stopped. If we strike together we can make true real change. Sign the strike card today.

Why do some, but far from all, Americans "throw down their tools" and take off from work on the first Monday in September to celebrate Labor Day?

Apartheid is the political policy of racial segregation. In Afrikaans, it means apartness, and it was pioneered in 1948 by the South African National Party when it came to power. Not only did apartheid separate whites from non-whites, it also segregated the Blacks (Africans) from the Coloureds (Indians, Asians). All things such as jobs, schools,

June 15, 1990: Janitors in Los Angeles are brutally beaten by police during a peaceful demonstration in the Century City district. The incident generated public outrage and the janitors subsequently won their first union contract. The Justice for Janitors campaign has helped hundreds of thousands of janitors in cities across the country raise industry standards and transform poverty wages into livable wages.