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Why We Celebrate May Day as a Workers’ Holiday
By Steve Brier One of the great ironies is that workers all over the world celebrate Labor Day on May 1st, not the first Monday in September, the way we do in the U.S. Most people assume the choice of May 1st has something to do with the former Soviet Union. They don’t realize that…
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Roe at Risk
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KcaDtjwOuY&w=560&h=315] This film was initially listed in The New Labor Forum Spring 2014 Issue www.afj.org, 2013 A fifteen-minute film urges Americans to get involved to preserve a woman’s right to choose about abortion.
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Children of the Jacaranda Tree
This book was initially listed in The New Labor Forum Spring 2014 Issue By Sahar Delijani Atria, 2013 The author was born in 1983 in a prison in Iran where her parents were jailed for their political activities. In this can’t-put-it-down novel, she tells the story of several families who lived through and emerged from…
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Paul Robeson: A Watched Man
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…
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