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Blair Mountain Protests

LAWCHA member and newsletter editor Rosemary Feurer attended the protests in West Virginia to save historic Blair Mountain. Ryan Poewww.ryanmpoe.com/

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Great Labor Arts Exchange Conference on Creative Organizing & Camp Solidary, June 17-19, Washington, D.C.

The Labor Heritage Foundation is looking for presenters and workshop organizers for the 2011 G reat Labor Arts Exchange Conference. See below for

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Haymarket Martyrs Monument Ceremony, Chicago (May 1)

1 p.m., May 1, 2011, Forest Home Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois 2011 will mark the restoration and rededication of the Haymarket Martyrs’ Monument, the

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Bread and Roses Strike Centennial Anniversary – Call for Papers, Cultural, and Video Presentation (Deadline: July 1)

When 30,000 workers walked out of Lawrence’s textile mills in the dead of a New England winter in January 1912, they launched an

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LAWCHA Events at Shirtwaist Commemorations, March 25

The weekend of March 24-26, 2011 there will be a variety of activities sponsored by dozens of organizations and unions to commemorate the

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Southern Labor Studies Conference: Memory and Forgetting April 7-10

Registration is now open for the SLSA Conference, Memory and Forgetting: Labor History and the Archive, April 7 to April 10, 2011, Atlanta,

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Triangle Fire Commemoration: March 24-26

The preliminary schedule for LAWCHA events at the Triangle fire commemoration is out! The following itinerary focuses on the LAWCHA events at the

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Midwest Labor and Working-Class History Conference, April 15-16, Iowa City

The Midwest Labor and Working-Class History Conference is organized by graduate students in labor history from different university campuses in the Midwest. The

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Attacks on Labor Educators and Labor Historians

A systematic attack on university professors teaching labor history began in Kansas City, Missouri in April, 2010. LAWCHA quickly mobilized in defense of

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A Time to Defend Labor and the Public Sector

Thanks to the leadership that workers in Wisconsin and other states took in the Spring of 2011, Americans seized the opportunity to change

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