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Below are groups and resources (books, articles, websites, etc.) related to this topic. Click on an item’s title to go its resource page with author, publisher, description/abstract and other details, a link to the full text if available, as well as links to related topics in the Subject Index. You can also browse the Title, Author, Subject, Chronological, Dewey, LoC, and Format indexes, or use the Search box. Results18 Connexions Library1 Connexions Directory of Groups & Websites 2 From the Connexions Archives Connexions LibraryBerlin's oldest squatters in town defend threatened community centre: Pensioners take a stand against development of their comunity centre Connolly, Kate Article 2012 Dozen of pensioners took over a community centre in the east Berlin suburb of Pankow last month after the local council said the building they had used as a community centre for 15 years had to make w... Flint and the Rewriting of History Dollinger, Sol Article 1996 The 1937 sitdown strikes were a thunderbolt shattering minimal labor-management relations. The victory of the Flint auto workers heralded the most profound social changes in the United States since th... Flint Sit-Down Strike: Connexipedia Article Article Changed the United Automobile Workers from a collection of isolated locals on the fringes of the industry into a major union and led to the unionization of the United States automobile industry. The Flint Sitdown for Beginners Post, Charlie Article 1996 The Sitdown Strike at GM's Flint, Michigan Fisher Body and Chevrolet plants (December 1936-February 1937) was a turning point in the history of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). The Flint sit-down strike, 1936-1937: Jeremy Brecher Steven Article 2013 210,000 auto workers joined the American Federation of Labor (A.F.L.) to take part in the strike but the A.F.L leadership however wanted no part in a strike, and managed to postpone it again and again... Get Up, Stand Up: Uniting Populists, Energizing the Defeated, and Battling the Corporate Elite  Levine, Bruce E. Book 2011 Levine offers insights into the epidemic of political passivity in America and analyzes how major U.S. institutions have created helplessness and fatalism. He proposes ways of recovering dignity, ener... Jewish Women Occupy Israeli Consulate in Toronto Article 2009 A group of Jewish-Canadian women occupied the Israeli Consulate in Toronto in protest against the on-going Israeli assault on the people of Gaza.
See a video at http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=ln0zFRg0... The 1960 Sit-ins in Context: Against The Current vol. 147 Oppenheimer, Marty Article 2010 We think of the Sit-In Movement as beginning on February 1, 1960, fifty years ago. In the minds of many this was the initiating event that led to many subsequent developments in the broader civil righ... The 1960 Sit-ins in Context Oppenheimer, Marty Article 2010 The Civil Rights Movement that we associate with the 1960s was the culmination of a vast set of social and economic changes. The tradition of Black struggle itself, going back to the very beginnings o... Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 19, 2015: Utopia Diemer, Ulli (ed.) Serial Publication (Periodical) 2015 Utopian visions, be they practical or not, free our imaginations, if only for a little while, from the daily grind of struggle and worry, and allow us to dream about the kind of world we would hope to... Politics and Memory in the Flint Sitdown Strikes: A comment on Historiography Lichtenstein, Nelson Article 1996 The General Motors strike of 1936-37 was the most important union victory of the 20th century, but the very meaning of its success was ambiguous indeed. Sit-ins: Connexipedia Article Article A form of direct action that involves one or more persons nonviolently occupying an area for a protest. Sitdown strike or occupation guide: A guide to taking sit-down strike action or occupations, in which by suddenly refusing to work gains can be won rapidly Article 2006 A strike doesn't have to be long to be effective. Timed and executed right, a strike can be won in minutes. Such strikes are "sitdowns" or "occupations" when everyone just stops work and sits tight, o... SNCC: The New Abolitionists Zinn, Howard Book 1964 An account of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Strike!: The True History of Mass Insurgence from 1877 to the Present Brecher, Jeremy Book 1972 A history-from-below that brings to light strikes as authentic revolutionary movements against the establishments of state, capital, and trade unionism. A Troublemaker's Handbook: How to Fight Back Where You Work -- And Win! La Botz, Dan Book 1991 An organizing manual for workers dealing with both major issues and everyday problems in the workplace. Vulnerable Akron: the first great sit-down Conatz, Juan Article 2013 Akron, rubber manufacturing capital of the world. A drab Mid-Western industrial city of 255,000. A city with a hum, a throb, anodor all its own. It made the front pages in February, 1936. A strike had... Connexions Directory of Groups & WebsitesBureau of Public Secrets Articles from a Situationist perspective.
From the Connexions ArchivesThe Great Flint Sit-Down Strike Against G.M. 1936-37 How Trade Unionism was Won Linder, Walter Article A history of the Flint strike (1936-1937). |
