This book was initially listed in The New Labor Forum Spring 2014 Issue
By Jordan Goodman
Verso, 2013
The famous African-American singer and actor
became a leading voice for civil rights at home
and abroad in the 1930s and beyond. This biography
draws on internal government archives to
focus on harassment and repression waged
against Robeson by congressional committees,
the FBI, and other agencies.
This book was initially listed in The New Labor Forum Spring 2014 Issue
By Peggy Taylor and Charlie Murphy
New Society Publishers, 2013
This exciting guide describes more than a hundred simple, easy-to-lead activities that use arts and crafts, creative writing, theater improvisation, storytelling, music, or dance to break down barriers and build stronger communities for social change.
This book was initially listed in The New Labor Forum Spring 2014 Issue
By Nicolas Lampert
The New Press, 2013
A fascinating book examines the role visual images have played in activist movements throughout American history. The author was “particularly drawn to the examples . . . where the decisions made by artists were controversial and confounding” because “analyzing histories that are deeply complicated helps us learn.”
This film was initially listed in The New Labor Forum Spring 2014 Issue
A seventy-three-minute documentary shows twenty-two public artists who do unauthorized paintings in Singapore, Bangkok, Jakarta, Hong Kong, Tel Aviv, Perth, Melbourne, Copenhagen, Chicago, Austin, and Palestinian refugee camps on the West Bank.
National Nurses United, AFL-CIO (NNU) seeks experienced research analysts to work in its research arm, the Institute for Health and Socio-Economic Policy. NNU, the nation’s largest nurses’ union and professional association, leads the Registered Nurse movement to transform the market-driven healthcare industry into a health care system driven by patient needs. NNU has negotiated the best Registered Nurse collective bargaining contracts in the nation and provided critical leadership in the AFL-CIO’s decision to endorse a single-payer healthcare system based on updating and expanding Medicare benefits for all Americans.
