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Laborers Local 393 in Marseilles is planning to unveil a historical marker April 28 honoring Steve Sutton and laborers injured during a riot, and Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello, who wrote a song about the incident, is planning on being a part of commemoration.
Recording of Program at the College of Complexes on Jan 29, 2022
Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW)
The Fair Food Program, Anti-Slavery Campaign
Boycott Wendy’s
Program on Saturday Jan 29th at 6:00 PM CT, Zoom
Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW)
The Fair Food Program, Anti-Slavery Campaign
Boycott Wendy’s
Speaker’s bio:
Silvia Sabanilla is a staff member and leader of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW). Originally from Mexico, Ms. Sabanilla worked in the agricultural industry across the South for more than 17 years as a harvester, picking tomatoes, peppers, and other mixed vegetables. As part of the Fair Food Program, Ms. Sabanilla and her colleagues conduct workers’ rights education in the fields on all farms participating in the Fair Food Program. Ms. Sabanilla’s work at the CIW includes hosting daily radio shows on the CIW’s low-power community FM radio station, leading the weekly Women’s Group meetings, receiving complaints of abuses in the fields, and managing wage theft claims. Finally, Ms. Sabanilla represents the CIW at a national level, speaking publicly on the challenges faced by farmworkers in Florida, both during major actions with thousands of consumers and in dozens of presentations throughout the year.
College of Complexes
weekly free speech forum on social issues and current events
All meetings open to the public
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Program on Saturday Jan 22nd at 6:00 PM CT, Zoom
College of Complexes
The Fleecing of America
Meetings # 3,650 – Dr, John Beesley, English born Author, retired after a long career with Xerox, (Educated at London's Imperial College and the University of Dallas, BSc, DIC, MBA, Ph.D.), will discuss how over the past four decades the quality of life for most Americans has slowly, but surely, been degraded. The severity of current social ills has been blamed on character defects, with which the poorest are said to be uniquely endowed. He argues that the reality is that American institutions, along with their attendant myths, have been constructed to bring this about. The US Congress, under the ownership of the money class, has been willingly complicit. John will make a vigorous attempt to bring together the various socio-economic factors that have caused the "Fleecing of America".
College of Complexes
weekly free speech forum on social issues and current events
All meetings open to the public
Schedule
http://www.collegeofcomplexes.org/CoC-Current-Schedule-of-Speakers.html
Main Page
www.collegeofcomplexes.org
Facebook
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Meeting ID: 812 1646 7150
From NFFE Local 739, National Federation of Federal Employees, Chicago, IL, AFL-CIO
Short Video 7:23 minutes
https://youtu.be/ny9PMJxm5jk
OSHA Fifty Years: Protecting America’s Workforce
established in December 29, 1971
Christmas day, 100 years ago:
That was the day President Warren G. Harding ordered Eugene V. Debs released from prison.
The Socialist Party leader had been convicted of Sedition in 1918 and sentenced to ten years in prison for an anti-war speech he made in Canton, Ohio earlier that year.
He noted in that speech, “Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder… And that is war, in a nutshell. The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles… To turn your back on the corrupt Republican Party and the corrupt Democratic Party—the gold-dust lackeys of the ruling class—counts for something.
It counts still more...to join a minority party that has an ideal, that stands for a principle, and fights for a cause.”
His arrest and conviction was part of a wider crackdown against dissent during World War I of anti-war activists, including the Socialist Party, IWW, labor unions, and immigrants.
From his jail cell, he won close to a million votes on the Socialist Party ticket in the 1920 presidential elections.
He was also stripped of his citizenship, posthumously restored in 1976. “On the day of his release, the warden ignored prison regulations and opened every cell-block to allow more than 2,000 inmates to gather in front of the main jail building to say good-bye to Eugene Debs,” according to historian Howard Zinn. “As he started down the walkway from the prison, a roar went up and he turned, tears streaming down his face, and stretched out his arms to the other prisoners.”
- Illinois Labor History Society
Let's Restore the Legal Right to Strike
A legal right to strike must include the right to return to the job when the strike is over — win, lose or draw — and U.S. workers haven’t had that right since corporations and Ronald Reagan’s National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) conspired to weaponize a long-dormant Supreme Court decision to legalize union-busting.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/striketober-right-to-strike-nlrb-legal-john-deere
We enjoyed hosting everyone at our Pullman Exhibit Hall this weekend, from artist Mitch Markovitz (The Art of Mitch Markovitz) to the Illinois Labor History Society, and all of our regular and new visitors. You truly made it a GRAND opening weekend for Pullman National Monument, National Park Service and Pullman State Historic Site.