Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/community/page/5/)
Local unions are stepping up this winter to connect thousands of Minnesotans with free, fresh food available through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farmers to Families Food Box program.
When a farmworker nearly died from COVID-19, Spokane’s Latinx community stepped in where the system failed.
‘Karen did not just lead our movement. Karen was our movement.’
A century of agrarian organizing pays off.
Venezuelan-American Photographer Lexi Parra is moving away from the individualistic “I” and towards the collective “we” of creating art for the gain of many, not the personal success of one.
n collaboration with the University of Minnesota Department of History, the Ramsey County Historical Society, and the Labor and Working-Class History Association, ESFL is hosting an online conversation between the two leading scholars of Black labor in the United States: Dr. Joe W. Trotter, Jr., and Dr. William P. Jones.
COVID-19 testing is fast, safe and open to anyone free of charge at 21 community testing sites across Minnesota. That’s the message state health officials want union members – and all frontline workers – to hear as more businesses, schools and other gathering places begin reopening to the public. As a small group of union leaders toured the testing site inside St. Paul’s Roy Wilkins Auditorium today, state officials emphasized that testing remains critical to containing the coronavirus outbreak. And containing the outbreak is critical to keeping Minnesota schools and businesses open.
Health care workers don’t need patronizing praise. They need resources, federal support, and for us to stay healthy and out of their hospitals. In many cases, none of that is happening.
Victories around the country testify to the brilliance and discipline of Black, Latinx, Native American, and Asian American people.
“Just because we may not have 100% of the votes in for a week does not mean that people will be standing around wondering who won every office,” Simon said. “That’s not the case. In fact, it’s far more likely that we’ll have winners, outcomes either on Election Night or shortly thereafter.”