On June 22, 1916, cops shot a Croatian miner named John Alar who was part of the Industrial Workers of the World-led strike in the Mesabi Range of Minnesota. This event did not succeed, because the odds were so stacked against the miners and the...
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Glad to see unions across Minnesota coming together to maximize power through striking together. Nearly 10,000 workers from a coalition of separate unions, working for a diverse group of employers,.
State flags are mostly pretty badly designed, but they do express values of the state, or at least they do when they are changed. See how various southern states added.
You don't just need a trifecta to do what Minnesota Democrats did in their legislature this year. You need to get that trifecta understanding what the stakes are and having an ideologically consistent party fighting Republicans. We have the trifecta all the time in Rhode...
Not enough workers? Well, sure, we could pay more. Or we could open the doors to the millions of immigrants who wish to come and work here. But instead, Republicans.
Yesterday, Rob pointed out how faculty really struggle to understand that administrators are not our friends. Boy howdy is this true. Even good faculty unionists will blab to their "friends".
This is the grave of Alexander Ramsey. Born in 1815 in Hummelstown, Pennsylvania, Ramsey didn't grow up under the greatest of circumstances. HIs father killed himself when Ramsey was a boy after he was held liable to pay a note he had signed for a...
Minneapolis teachers walked off the job today: Teachers in Minneapolis are set to go on strike on Tuesday morning, shuttering classrooms for about 30,000 public school students.For weeks, the teachers’.
Good move here on the part of the Biden administration and let's hope there's a way to move this toward permanence so that the next Republican administration can't just undo.
On December 16, 1977, eight women bank workers at Citizens National Bank in Willmar, Minnesota went on strike, charging sex discrimination they faced on the job. The Willmar 8 would not transform the banking industry or the small town of Willmar. But they would serve...
Above: White Liberals When Confronted with School Integration I've been chewing over this long profile of what happens when you push white liberals to participate in desegregation efforts, in this.
Winona Laduke??? and other ???water protectors??? rally at the Wisc.-Minn. border on June 29, 2018, the morning after Line 3 is approved. They???re vowing to fight to keep the oil.