Archive: Protest

• WCP: Scabby the Rat Down Under

  In Australia, as in the U.S., increasing restrictions on unions have forced the labor movement to come up with new and creative methods of communication. In this week’s Working-Class Perspectives, Ruth Barton explores the roll of large inflatable animals in Australian labor protests, and how activists have struggled to keep them inflated.

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Australia, John Russo, Labor Movement, Protest, Ruth Barton, Sherry Linkon, Strike, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives

• Farmworkers and Allies March for Fair Food: Featured Video

  [embed]https://vimeo.com/191589944[/embed] Shalina Chatlani (SFS ’17) interns for Industry Dive and is an Undergraduate Writing Fellow for the Kalmanovitz Initiative. We are thrilled to feature her w

  Category: Uncategorized Tags: CIW, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Georgetown University, Industry Dive, March, Protest, SFA, Shalina Chatlani, Student Farmworker Alliance, Undergraduate Writing Fellow, Wendy's

• WCP: Organizing Miracles

  What motivates people to risk their comfort and safety to confront oppression? How can organizing foster a movement that leads to major change? In this week's Working-Class Perspective, Jack Metzgar

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Church, East Germany, Jack Metzgar, Leipzig, Nonviolence, Organizing, Protest, Sherry Linkon, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives