In 1886, members of America's fledgling labor movement called a general strike for May 1 to demand an eight-hour work day.
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Julie Polter 6-13-2011
Six books on the ongoing search for peace and justice in the Middle East and beyond.
Lauren F. Winner 6-13-2011
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Women's ongoing search, in life and texts, for equality and empowerment.
Betsy Shirley 6-03-2011
Bio: Founded Empowering and Strengthing Ohio's People (ESOP) to stop predatory lending and home foreclosures. Website: www.esop-cleveland.org.
Danny Duncan Collum 6-03-2011
"A white man's country" became the multiracial, multicultural democracy we now inhabit.
Gareth Higgins 6-03-2011
Gareth Higgins reviews Batle: Los Angeles, Saving Private Ryan, and Chinatown.
Andrew Bradstock 6-03-2011
The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger, by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett. Bloomsbury Press.
William O'Brien 6-03-2011
Freedom Journeys: The Tale of Exodus and Wilderness across Millennia, by Rabbi Arthur O. Waskow adn Rabbi Phyllis O. Berman. Jewish Lights Publishing.
Sarah Browning 6-03-2011
Poets resist anti-immigration laws with defiance, beauty, and social media.
César J. Baldelomar 5-01-2011
Latina/o Social Ethics: Moving Beyond Eurocentric Moral Thinking, by Miguel A. De La Torre.
Danny Duncan Collum 5-01-2011
THE EGYPTIAN revolution started on Facebook. True. The Iranians who took to the streets last year to try to overturn a fraudulent election used Twitter to coordinate their actions and to communicate with the outside world. Also true.
Christine Foust 4-26-2011
Filmaker David Barnhart helps disaster survivors tell their ongoing stories of healing and recovery.
Danny Duncan Collum 3-01-2011
American alienation is the real killer that stalks our past, and our present.
Julie Polter 3-01-2011
For nearly six decades, Mavis Staples has been bringing the gospel truth to song.