How to Be a Wildcat
All people deserve the opportunity to teach and learn in the community, not just those whose family can subsidize their graduate education. Until then, we strike!
Tag: Strike
Claiming Black Lung: Towards an Appalachian Disability Justice
The black lung movement shows that disability functions as a powerful force in creating cultural groups.
Strike For Trump’s Resignation
For my family, friends, and neighbors, survival means standing up and saying that the rich and powerful cannot steal our democracy.
Labor Organizing in Higher Ed: Lessons from the 1984-85 Yale Strike
The failures of the Hormel plant strike in 1985-86 captured the U.S. public imagination, setting a defeatist tone for the labor movement. But what might the labor movement still learn from the successes of the 1984-85 Yale strike of mostly-women clerical and technical workers?
Racism is a Labor Issue: The UNC TA Strike and Black-led Movements Against White Supremacy
We write this essay as strike supporters to encourage others in nominally secure positions, and especially those in tenured and other protected positions, to utilize their positions in the fight against racism and fascism at the university.
The West Virginia Teachers’ Strike and the Power of Grassroots Change
When this goes down in history, we don’t want the story to be that teachers went on a nine-day strike. We want the story to be that this was the beginning of a snowball effect of wonderful things happening for West Virginia. I think that in order for that to happen, we have to “Remember in November.”
Call for Contributors for November 2017 Issue on “Organized Labor”
The Activist History Review invites proposals for articles that address the theme of “organized labor” to be featured in the November issue.
The Activist History Review 