Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/community/page/49/)
The Carlton County Central Labor Body will hold five days of events during its 86th Annual Labor Day Celebration, starting Thursday, Sept. 1, and running through Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 5.
Humorist Garrison Keillor headlines the list of speakers featured at the 2005 St. Paul Labor Day Extravaganza. The free event also features food, music and fun at Harriet Island.
Minnesota’s art-makers for the labor movement, the Northland Poster Collective, will celebrate 25 years of arts activism with a cabaret concert Saturday, Sept. 17, at the Cedar Cultural Center, 416 Cedar Ave. So., Minneapolis.
The contrived challenges for contestants on so-called “reality television” are nothing like the real-life struggles millions of American workers face every week, captured in the documentary Waging a Living now screening in the Twin Cities.
This year’s United Way silent auction benefits many programs to help people in the community.
Wobblies used this “Pyramid of the Capitalist System” to explain workers’ place in the economy (at the bottom).
“Labor’s Troubadours,” an afternoon of labor songs and poetry, will be held Saturday, May 7, at Rice Park in downtown St. Paul.
Liza Featherstone, author of Selling Women Short, a new book about a class-action lawsuit against Wal-Mart, will speak Thursday as part of the “Untold Stories” labor history month series.
Humorist and political commentator Jim Hightower and workshops on issues ranging from civil disobedience to school closings are featured at the “Free Democracy Summit” underway this weekend in Duluth.
Wal-Mart, the Wobblies and labor songs old and new are among topics featured in this year’s “Untold Stories,” a labor history series presented by Friends of the St. Paul Public Library and co-sponsored by several labor organizations.