Archive: News
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Innovating Change in a Time of Uncertainty
The KI continues to serve as an innovative hub for the next-gen workers' justice movement, despite the challenges of the pandemic. We've been working online since March 2020. As we prepare to make a
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KI Statement: AFL-CIO Election of Liz Shuler as President and Fred Redmond as Secretary-Treasurer
The Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor at Georgetown University congratulates the AFL-CIO leadership and members for today’s historic election of Liz Shuler as President of the AFL
Categories: News, Uncategorized
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Student Blog: Empowering Workers through Community
Dakyung Ham worked with ROC DC as part of KI's Summer 2021 Organizing Internship program. Apply to our Fall 2021 organizing internship program here. From the cheerful conversations in the g
Categories: News, Organizing Internship
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WCP: Fighting Poverty with Classism
Reform movements in the US have a long history of trying to address poverty by teaching, manipulating, and sometimes forcing working-class people to behave more like the middle class. In Working-Clas
Categories: News, Working-Class Perspectives
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Lowe Mill, Then and Now: Reimagining Industrial Spaces for the 21st Century
In my hometown, Huntsville, Alabama, one of the most popular attractions is a revitalized factory. While the hallmark exhibit of the area is the U.S. Space and Rocket center, this unlikely building h
Categories: News, Research in Action Internship
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KI Mourns the Passing of AFL-CIO President, Richard Trumka
We at the Kalmanovitz Initiative are shocked and saddened by the news today of the sudden passing of AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka. In a career that stretched from working as a miner, then an
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WCP: The Downward Path We’ve Trod: Reflections on an Ominous Anniversary
This week marks the 40th anniversary of an illegal strike by the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) that was decisively broken by President Ronald Reagan in 1981. In this week
Categories: News, Working-Class Perspectives
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KI Fall Internship Applications Open
KI is now accepting applications for the Fall 2021 Research in Action and Organizing Internships. These paid internships are open to all Georgetown University undergraduate and graduate students.The
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WCP: Workers, Working and Workplaces
Films about work shape our attitudes toward labor and laboring, often by inviting us to identify with individual characters. But what happens when film presents a more direct experience of what worke
Categories: News, Working-Class Perspectives
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KI Summer 2021 Interns
This summer, KI is excited to welcome seven interns as part of our summer research and organizing internships. KI's internship program places Georgetown students with labor and advocacy organizations
Categories: News, Organizing Internship, Research in Action Internship