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International Workers Day 1886: General strike for 8-hour work day in Chicago & other cities 1986: 1.5 million join South African general strike against apartheid 2006: 2.5 million workers rally in U.S. for immigrants’ rights
WEDNESDAY / 2 1963: More than 700 black children protesting segregation are blasted by fire house, clubbed by police and attacked by dogs. Birmingham, AL 1984: 33,000 West German metal workers strike for 35-hour work week THURSDAY / 3 1926: UK General Strike 1934: IWW strike at Draper Manufacturing Cleveland, Ohio FRIDAY / 4 1886: Police attack Haymarket Square rally called to protest police brutality at McCormick Works 1961: U.S. freedom rides 1992: Riots in Los Angeles, California sparked by acquittal of white police officers who beat Rodney King, leaving 53 dead, 2,000 injured, and $1 billion in damage SATURDAY / 5
Cinco De Mayo
1931: Battle of Harlan County, KY 1995: Alabama resurrects chain gangs for state prisoners, influencing several other states to do the same SUNDAY / 6 1913: California enacts legislation barring Asian immigrants from owning land; 15 other states later pass similar laws 1980: 170,000 workers in Russia’s Togliatti auto plant stay home in support of bus driver walkout
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MONDAY / 7 1955: NAACP member, Rev. George Lee, is fatally shot after he attempted to register to vote in Belzoni, Mississippi TUESDAY / 8 1994: Bolivian Workers Congress
reaches agreement to end 23-day general strike 2009: Members of the Klu Klux Klan burn a cross in an African American neighborhood in Ozark, Alabama WEDNESDAY / 9 1961: Freedom rider and future Congressman John Lewis, is assaulted for attempting to enter the white waiting room at the Greyhound bus terminal in Rock Hill, South Carolina TURSDAY / 10
EARLIEST DAY TO APPLY FOR AN ABSENTEE BALLOT FOR NOVEMBER GENERAL ELECTION
1740: South Carolina enacts Negro Act of 1740, allowing masters to whip and kill slaves who violate law by growing their own food, learning to read, assembling groups, or earning money. 1894: Pullman strike begins 1898: U.S. & Canadian workers form Western Labor Union FRIDAY / 11 1791: First known U.S. building-trades strike, Philadelphia 1868: Convict leasing begins, as Georgia governor leases 100 black prisoners to Georgia and Alabama railroad for $2,500 per year; 16 prisoners die within the first year. 1891: National U.S. building trades strike 1894: National U.S. rail strike SATURDAY / 12 Mandatory Saturday Voting for the General Primary/Special Election 1916: Execution of James Connolly, IWW organizer and Irish freedom fighter 2010: Tucson, Arizona schools are barred from teaching Mexican American studies this week after governor signs bill banning all ethnic studies courses SUNDAY / 13
Mother’s Day
1913: 10,000 IWW dock workers strike, Philadelphia 1956: Four white men rape Annette Butler, a black 16 year old and are later acquitted by all-white, male juries despite a confession 1968: Strikes in Paris leads to general strike by 10 million workers
MONDAY / 14 1961: White mom sets fire to bus carrying Freedom Riders, Anniston, Alabama 1993: 11-day East German metalworkers strike settled TUESDAY / 15 1916: Mob of 15,000 burns alive African American teenager Jesse Washington in Waco, Texas 1970: Police shoot and kill two unarmed black student protestors at Jackson State College in Mississippi WEDNESDAY / 16
Ramadan begins
1821: Engineers start successful 5-month strike for 9-hour work day, Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1934: Minneapolis general strike backs Teamsters THURSDAY / 17 1838: First women’s anti-slavery conference, Philadelphia 1954: Supreme Court outlaws segregation in public schools, Brown vs. Board of Education FRIDAY / 18
LAST DAY TO ISSUE ABSENTEE BALLOTS FOR THE GENERAL PRIMARY/ SPECIAL ELECTION
1980: Violent protests continue in Miami, Florida after four police officers are acquitted in brutal beating death of Arthur McDuffie, leaving 23 dead and hundreds injured SATURDAY / 19 Shavuot begins at sunset
ATLANTA BANANA PUDDING CONTEST & 5K JUSTICE WALK
1925: Birth of Malcolm X, African-American revolutionary organizer 2017: 4,000 Haitian garment workers strike to double wages SUNDAY / 20 1933: Rubber workers strike in Akron, Ohio 1961: Freedom Riders arrive in Montgomery, AL MONDAY / 21 1946: U.S. government seizes coal mines to break strike 1961: National Guard called to disperse several thousand whites threatening to set fire to First Baptist
Church in Montgomery, Alabama with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and freedom fighters inside TUESDAY / 22
GENERAL PRIMARY, NONPARTISAN GENERAL ELECTION AND SPECIAL ELECTION
1872: Congress passes the Amnesty Act, restoring former Confederates’ rights to vote and hold office WEDNESDAY / 23 1838: 4,000 Cherokee die in ‘Trail of Tears’ forced removal THURSDAY / 24 2013: Federal judge rules Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa county, Arizona, illegally targeted Latinos during raids and traffic stops based on their race 2017: 150,000 construction workers strike across Quebec over schedules FRIDAY / 25 1962: AFL-CIO launches campaign for 35-hour work week SATURDAY / 26 1937: Battle of the Overpass, Ford thugs beat UAW organizers SUNDAY / 27 1980: 3,000 killed in Kwangju, Korea uprising MONDAY / 28
Memorial Day
1871: Paris commune crushed; 25,000 massacred 1946: Rochester, NY; general strike TUESDAY / 29 2002: 30,000 port workers strike against union-busting, Bangladesh WEDNESDAY / 30 1822: Denmark Vesey, a free black man in South Carolina, is accused of planning a large slave insurrection and later hanged along with over 30 alleged co-conspirators 1968: General strike against police brutality begins; Senegal THURSDAY / 31 2016: Tourists visiting the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC, find a noose placed by an unknown party.
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TAKE ACTION / JUNE 2018 FRIDAY / 1 1922: National rail strike 1985: Vancouver unemployed demand free bus service SATURDAY / 2 1924: Supreme Court overturns law restricting child labor 2011: Governor Robert Bentley signs anti-immigrant bill into law designed to force immigrants to flee the state SUNDAY / 3 1952: U.S. Steel (now USX) strike begins 1943: White workers at Packard Motor Company in Detroit, Michigan, strike to protest promotion of black workers MONDAY / 4 1989: Tiananmen Square massacre TUESDAY / 5 1933: 800+ Mexican pickers strike San Gabriel Valley, CA berry fields 1995: 2,500 peasants shut down Mexico stock market for two hours WEDNESDAY / 6 1917: 164 killed in Speculator Mine disaster, Butte, Montana 1931: Lansing, Michigan general strike protest arrest of union activists THURSDAY / 7 1913: IWW Pageant of Paterson Silk Strike performed at Madison Square Garden, NYC 1968: Women workers strike Ford, demanding equal pay. England FRIDAY / 8 1847: British 10 Hours Act for women, children 1904: Militia kill six striking miners, Dunnville, Colorado SATURDAY / 9 1963: Fannie Lou Hamer and other civil rights activists are arrested on false charges in Winona, Mississippi and severely beaten by police while in jail
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SUNDAY / 10 1912: General strike of British transport workers MONDAY / 11 1913: Cops shoot at black & white IWW/AFL maritime workers striking United Fruit Co. in New Orleans. 1 killed, 2 wounded TUESDAY / 12
World Day Against Child Labor
1917: 260 dies in Butte mine disaster, 14,000 strike for safe conditions WEDNESDAY / 13 2005: U.S. Congress formally apologizes for its failure to pass any of the of the anti-lynching bills introduced from 1882 to 1968 THURSDAY / 14
Eid-Al-Fitr
1924: San Pedro, California IWW hall raided and demolished by thugs. FRIDAY / 15 1920: Three black circus workers are accused of raping a white woman and lynched by a mob of 10,000 in Duluth, Minnesota SATURDAY / 16 1987: Paper workers strike mill near Portland, Maine
TUESDAY / 19
Juneteenth
1953: ILWU begins four-day general strike in Hawaii against convictions of 7 unionists under Smith Act 2016: Police murder at least eight striking teachers and students, Oaxaca, Mexico WEDNESDAY / 20
World Refugee Day
1940: After NAACP members try to register to vote in Brownsville, Tennessee, a mob of white men retaliates by abducting and lynching local NAACP secretary, Elbert Williams. THURSDAY / 21 1877: 10 Molly Maguires hanged 1919: Police attack Winnipeg, Canada crowd to break general strike and kill two FRIDAY / 22 1920: Gendarmes open fire following rally to support striking rail workers; 5 killed. Milan, Italy SATURDAY / 23 1947: Anti-worker Taft-Hartley Act passed by Congress
TUESDAY / 26 1894: ARU refuses to handle Pullman cars in solidarity with strikers who built them 2015: Same-Sex Marriage legalized in U.S. WEDNESDAY / 27 1905: Industrial Workers of the World founding convention begins, Chicago 1993: A.E. Staley locks out 763 workers, Decatur, IL THURSDAY / 28 1844: After slavery is declared illegal in Oregon, the state passes its first laws prohibiting black people from living there, authorizing the whipping of blacks. FRIDAY / 29 1996: 1,200 prisoner in Tripoli’s Abu Salim jail massacred in revenge for protesting jail conditions. Libya SATURDAY / 30 1912: Maritime workers strike East Coast steamship lines; union scabbing leads many to join IWW 2011: 200,000 strike against cuts to UK public worker pensions
SUNDAY / 24 1917: IWW Domestic Workers Union supplies sandwiches to draft resisters in Duluth, Minnesota jail
SUNDAY / 17
Father’s Day
1913: IWW strike at Studebaker 2013: Millions protest transit fares, World Cup costs. Brazil MONDAY / 18 2015: White teen who embraced racist ideology and said he wanted to start a “race war” is arrested for shooting nine black churchgoers during Bible study at Emmanuel A.M.E. in Charleston, South Carolina
MONDAY / 25
EARLIEST DAY FOR AN INDEPENDENT OR A POLITICAL BODY CANDIDATE TO FILE THEIR NOMINATION PETITION TO HAVE HIS/HER NAME PLACED ON THE GENERAL ELECTION BALLOT. LAST DAY FOR A PERSON TO REGISTER AND BE ELIGIBLE TO VOTE IN THE GENERAL PRIMARY RUNOFF FOR FEDERAL RACES.
1994: Decatur, IL police pepper-gas workers at A.E. Staley plant gate
Voting
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TAKE ACTION / JULY 2018 US CONGRESS IN DISTRICT DATES JUL 2 - JUL 6 SUNDAY / 1 1922: One million railway shopmen strike across U.S. 1992: Police fire on labor protest, kill 20, Madhya, Pradesh, India MONDAY / 2
ADVANCED (ABSENTEE IN-PERSON) VOTING BEGINS FOR THE GENERAL PRIMARY/ SPECIAL RUNOFF ELECTION
1894: Federal injunction issued against Pullman strike 1964: Civil Rights Act of 1964 is passed TUESDAY / 3 1835: Children of Paterson, NJ strike for six-day work week, 11-hour day WEDNESDAY / 4 1994: Nigerian oil workers strike for democracy, leads to general strike
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THURSDAY / 5 1888: 1,4000 women strike at Bryant & May match factory in solidarity with fellow worker sacked for criticizing conditions; win. London 1935: National Labor Relations Act passes Congress FRIDAY / 6 1911: Joe Hill’s “The Preacher and the Slave” first appears in IWW’s Little Red Songbook
MONDAY / 9 2013: Center for Investigative Reporting breaks story this week that State of California improperly sterilized nearly 150 incarcerated women between 2006 and 2010.
TUESDAY / 17 2001: Harvard University’s Civil Rights Project releases study finding that schools were more segregated in 2000 than they were in the 1970s before desegregation efforts began.
THURSDAY / 26 1877: 30 workers killed at the ‘Battle of the Viaduct’ by Federal troops, Chicago 1912: Battle of the Mucklow, West Virginia, in coal strike
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WEDNESDAY / 18 1969: Hospital workers end 113-day strike that saw united efforts by strikers, students and civil rights groups, Charleston, SC
FRIDAY / 27 1913: 20,000 Barcelona textile workers, mostly women and children, strike for shorter hours. Win 60-hour week in September
THURSDAY / 19 1848: Women’s Rights Convention. Seneca Falls, New York 1877: Pittsburgh strikers drive soldiers out of town
SATURDAY / 28 1869: Women showmakers in Lynn, Massachusetts demand equal pay 1992: Volkswagen locks out 14,000 workers in bid to break union, Pueblo, Mexico
LAST DAY FOR AN INDEPENDENT OR A POLITICAL BODY CANDIDATE TO FILE THEIR NOMINATION PETITION TO HAVE HIS/HER NAME PLACED ON THE GENERAL ELECTION BALLOT
1917: Emma Goldman sentenced to two years for aiding draft resisters 2014: UK government workers strike, protest, against austerity budget WEDNESDAY / 11 2012: Tens of thousands join striking IWW miners march in Madrid. THURSDAY / 12 2012: 1,000 workers from 16 unions wildcat Newfoundland mine construction job, winning on fifth day; 4 face contempt changes FRIDAY / 13 1917: Strikers in police murder of worker spread. São Paulo, Brazil 1934: Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union organized in Tyronza, Arkansas 1995: Detroit newspaper workers begin 19-month strike
SATURDAY / 7 1994: Nigerian soldiers replace striking oil workers to break strike against dictatorship
SATURDAY / 14 *Bastille Day* 1877: General strike halts railroads 2014: Los Angeles port truckers launch 5-day strike; dockworkers briefly honor picket lines
SUNDAY / 8 1842: First U.S. anthracite coal strike 1998: Two-day general strike against privatization of phone company ends, Puerto Rico
SUNDAY / 15 1917: 50,000 lumberjacks strike for 8-hour day 2012: 7,000 workers occupy state owned Misr Spinning plant, Egypt MONDAY / 16 1913: IWW cigar workers strike, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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LAST DAY TO ISSUE ABSENTEE BALLOTS FOR THE GENERAL PRIMARY/SPECIAL ELECTION RUNOFF
SUNDAY / 29 1901: Socialist Party founded 2010: Jail blockade forces sheriff to postpone immigrant raids, Phoenix 2013: Fast food workers strike for living wage in seven U.S. cities
SATURDAY / 21 1878: Publication of ‘Eight Hours,’ more popular labor song until ‘Solidarity Forever’ 1964: IWW blueberry pickers strike begins near Grand Junction, Michigan
MONDAY / 30 2010: Four days of riots protest new Bangladeshi minimum wage of $43/month; 4,000 workers arrested
1934: 67 strikers wounded in Minneapolis truckers’ strike
SUNDAY / 22 1877: General strike in St. Louis MONDAY / 23 1934: Sacramento, California police arrest 22 farmworkers
TUESDAY / 31 1909: Government crushes general strike, kills hundreds. Barcelona, Spain 2013: Millions protest transit fares, World Cup costs. Brazil
TUESDAY / 24
GENERAL PRIMARY AND SPECIAL ELECTION RUNOFF DATE
1903: Mother Jones delivers famed ‘The Wail of the Children’ speech during March of the Mill Children
WEDNESDAY / 25 1890: New York garment workers win closed shop and firing of scabs after 7-month strike
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TAKE ACTION / AUGUST 2018 CONGRESS IN DISTRICT AUGUST 6TH - AUG 31ST WEDNESDAY / 1 1912: San Pedro longshore strike defeated, several IWWs blacklisted 1917: IWW organizer Frank Little lynched in Butte, Montana THURSDAY / 2 1910: Green corn rebellion, multi-ethnic armed revolt against World War I conscription, Oklahoma FRIDAY / 3 1913: IWW Wheatland Hop strike: sheriff shot while breaking up strike meeting; Ford and Suhr framed 1981: U.S. air traffic controllers (PATCO) strike begins 2017: Jakarta longshoremen strike SATURDAY / 4 1909: Swedish general strike against “right to work” contracts 1997: 15-day UPS strike begins
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SUNDAY / 5 1929: Start of 2-day strike by Transylvanian coal miners for 8-hour day, end to child labor. Crushed when troops opened fire, killing two MONDAY / 6 1965: Voting Rights Act is passed 1945: Hiroshima A-bombed by U.S. TUESDAY / 7 1931: IWW strike begins at Boulder Canyon Project, Utah WEDNESDAY / 8 1995: 700,000 public workers hold one-day sit-in strike across Turkey THURSDAY / 9 1961: President John F. Kennedy nominates James Parsons as U.S. District Court Judge for Northern, IL; Parsons becomes the first black federal judge in the continental U.S.
FRIDAY / 10 1933: Boss press laments women pickets’ effectiveness in 4th day of California beet strike; many arrests
SUNDAY / 19 1909: First edition of IWW Little Red Songbook MONDAY / 20
SATURDAY / 11 2017: White nationalists protest removal of Confederate statue in Charlottesville, Virginia; the next day, a protestor drives a car into counter-protestors, injuring 19 people and killing one woman SUNDAY / 12 2017: Wobbly Heather Heyer murdered while protesting fascist march; Charlottesville, Virginia MONDAY / 13 1889: London Dock Workers’ Strike begins 1966: Uprising in Watts, California TUESDAY / 14 1935: U.S. Social Security Act signed WEDNESDAY / 15 1867: London dockworkers strike for higher pay, shorter hours THURSDAY / 16 1912: South African police kill 34 striking Marikana miners 1920: Chicago Central Labor Union votes for general strike, if needed, to block war with Russia FRIDAY / 17 1985: Hormel meatpackers’ strike begins in Austin, Minnesota 2011: “Guest” workers who bought jobs for thousands of dollars begin sit-in strike at Hershey’s chocolates SATURDAY / 18 1994: Nigerian government seizes oil workers’ union offices, installs new offices
Eid al-Adha
1909: IWW free speech fight, Fresno, California TUESDAY / 21
Eid al-Adha ends
1831: Nat Turner leads slave revolt in Virginia 1918: 150,000 Yorkshire coal miners begin two-day strike WEDNESDAY / 22 1791: Slave uprising begins Revolution in Haiti
WEDNESDAY / 29 2009: 3,000 garment workers end two-day strike against wage cuts, Cambodia 2013: Strikes across U.S. continue fast food workers’ living wage fight THURSDAY / 30 1834: National Trades Union founded to unite U.S. craft unions in fight against economic inequality FRIDAY / 31 1942: General strike begins against annexation of Luxemburg into Nazi Germany, conscription 1946: 79-day strike begins, breaking power of Hawaii sugar plantations 1992: South African gov’t outlaws national metalworkers strike
THURSDAY / 23 1989: Black teen Yusef Hawkins is accused of visiting a white girl and then is murdered by a white mob in Bensonhurst, New York FRIDAY / 24 1923: Black farmhand Ben Hart’s body found in Jacksonville, Florida, after he is killed for allegedly peeping into white woman’s room; he is later exonerated SATURDAY / 25 1933: 100 IWW pickets arrested, Yakima, Washington 1968: Battle of Lincoln Park, Chicago SUNDAY / 26 1919: UMW organizer Fannie Sellins gunned down by company guards, Brackenridge, Pennsylvania MONDAY / 27 1950: Truman seizes railroads to block strike TUESDAY / 28 1968: Black bus drivers wildcat strike against racist union & management. Chicago
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TAKE ACTION / SEPTEMBER 2018 US CONGRESS IN DISTRICT SEPT 2 & 3, 10 & 11, 19 SATURDAY / 1 1903: 30,000 women from 26 trades march in Chicago Labor Day parade 1920: 500,000 Italian metal workers occupy their factories SUNDAY / 2 1921: Mineowners bomb West Virginia strikers by plane 2016: 150 million government workers in 1-day strike against privatization, for higher minimum wage. World’s largest strike. India MONDAY / 3
Labor Day
1891: Cotton pickers strike, Texas TUESDAY / 4
LAST DAY TO FILE THE NOTICE OF INTENT TO BE A WRITE-IN CANDIDATE AND HAVE NOTICE PUBLISHED
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1894: NYC tailors strike against sweatshop conditions
WEDNESDAY / 5 1882: 30,000 march in New York’s first Labor Day parade 1917: Palmer raids on all IWW halls and offices in U.S. 1934: 325,000 US textile workers strike against pay cuts, 2 killed THURSDAY / 6 1869: Avondale Mine Disaster, 110 miners killed, led to fleem mine safety law in Pennsylvania 1934: Scabs and police fire on textile strikers, killing 7 S. Carolina FRIDAY / 7 1976: Joseph Woodrow Hatchett is elected Justice of Florida Supreme Court, becoming the first black person elected to any statewide office in the South since reconstruction
SATURDAY / 8 1909: Victory for IWW McKees Rock, Pennsylvania strikers
MONDAY / 17 1868: Worker’s Women’s Association formed in U.S. 2011: Occupy Wall Street begins
SUNDAY / 9
Rosh Hashanah begins at sunset
1991: Canadian government workers launch eight-day strike 2016: Prisoners strike across U.S., demanding end to unpaid labor MONDAY / 10
LAST DAY TO FILE AFFIDAVIT STATING THE NOTICE OF INTENTION TO BE A WRITE-IN CANDIDATE HAS BEEN PUBLISHED
TUESDAY / 18
EARLIEST DAY TO MAIL AN ABSENTEE BALLOT FOR THE NOVEMBER GENERAL/SPECIAL ELECTION
WEDNESDAY / 26 1995: 250,000 Russian teachers strike against low pay, crumbling schools
1995: Manila General Strike against price hikes, privatization
THURSDAY / 27 1875: Striking textile workers demand bread for starving children in Fall River, Massachusetts
Yom Kippur begins at sunset
WEDNESDAY / 19 1885: Chinese coal miners driven out of Black Diamond, Washington
Muharram
THURSDAY / 20 2007: Up to 15,000 people in Jena, Louisiana, protest the attempted murder prosecution of six black teens for fighting with white students who hung a noose from a tree on their high school campus
WEDNESDAY / 12 1932: Jobless seize food in Toledo, Ohio
FRIDAY / 21 2011: Troy Davis executed in Georgia despite recanted witness statements and global campaign for communication due to innocence
1797: Pioneering feminist Mary Wollstonecraft dies 1897: 20 striking miners shot down in Lattimer, Pennsylvania TUESDAY / 11 1973: Allende government overthrown in CIA-backed coup, Chile
THURSDAY / 13 1971: Rebellion at Attica prison; police kill 39 prisoners and hostages FRIDAY / 14 1879: Margaret Sanger born 1959: Landrum-Griffin Act passed, severely limits union activity SATURDAY / 15 1845: Women cotton workers strike for 10 hour day, Allegheny, Penn. SUNDAY / 16 1923: Japanese anarchist Osugi Sakae murdered by police
TUESDAY / 25 1995: 80 Liverpool dockers fired for refusing overtime, sparking 26-month global fight against Mersey Docks & Harbour Co.
FRIDAY / 28 1917: 166 IWWs indicted on charge of interfering with war effort SATURDAY / 29 1931: RCMP fire into coal miners’ parade, kill 3, Bienfait, Sask SUNDAY / 30 1911: National strike of more than 40,000 railway shopmen inspires Joe Hill’s song ‘Casey Jones - The Union Scab’
SATURDAY / 22 1862: Emancipation Proclamation 1919: Great Steel Strike: 350,000 strike for union recognition 1935: 400,000 U.S. coal miners SUNDAY / 23
Sukkot begins
1955: White jurors acquit Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam in Emmett Till murder MONDAY / 24 1667: Virginia assembly enacts a law this week declaring that enslaved Africans who convert to Christianity will not be freed from bondage
Workers
United
Will Never Be
De fea ted
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TAKE ACTION / OCTOBER 2018 US CONGRESS IN DISTRICT OCT 8, 29 - 31
MONDAY / 1 1910: L.A. Times building blown up; McNamara arrested 1949: 500,000 steel workers strike TUESDAY / 2 1968: Massacre at Tlatelolco, 500 killed by Mexican troops WEDNESDAY / 3 1945: Seven-state Greyhound bus strike begins THURSDAY / 4 1887: Louisiana militia shoot 35 black strikers, lynch two 1946: U.S. Navy seizes oil refineries, breaking 20-state strike FRIDAY / 5 1934: 40,000 miners and iron workers strike, seizing towns near Gijon, Spain; 3,000 killed 1990: 75,000 service workers strike against austerity, Costa Rica
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SATURDAY / 6 1986: 1,700 female flight attendants win 18-year lawsuit, $37 million in damages from United Airlines which fired them for marrying SUNDAY / 7 1963: State troopers join local deputies in beating and shocking with cattle prods more than 350 African Americans as they wait in line at the county courthouse in Selma, Alabama to register to vote MONDAY / 8
Indigenous Peoples Day 1916: Soldiers attack IWW hall, Sydney, Australia TUESDAY / 9
GENERAL ELECTION/SPECIAL ELECTION DATE GENERAL ELECTION/SPECIAL ELECTION RUNOFF DATE LAST DAY FOR A PERSON TO REGISTER AND BE ELIGIBLE TO VOTE IN THE NOVEMBER GENERAL
Election and Runoff Election 1982: Solidarnose union outlawed, Poland
WEDNESDAY / 10 1871: Black Civil Rights activist Octavius Catto is killed after voting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1933: Cotton fields struck by 18,000 workers in Pixley, California; 4 killed, pay hike won
WEDNESDAY / 17 1950: ‘Salt of the Earth’ strike in Silver City, New Mexico; strikers’ wives walk picket lines for seven months during 14-month strike THURSDAY / 18 1927: IWW Colorado mine strike; first time all coalfields out
THURSDAY / 11
Coming Out Day
1944: U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments in Korematsu v. United States, and later issues decision that upholding the executive order that led to the internment of Japanese Americans FRIDAY / 12 1492: Native Americans discover Columbus 1902: 14 miners killed, 22 wounded by scab herders at Pana, Ill. 1995: Five police officers in Pittsburgh, PA kill Jonny Gammage during a routine traffic stop by pinning him face down on pavement until he asphyxiates SATURDAY / 13 1909: Education reformer Francisco Ferrer executed; Spanish gov’t says free schools led to workers revolt SUNDAY / 14 1883: International Working People’s Association founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania MONDAY / 15
ADVANCED (ABSENTEE IN-PERSON) VOTING BEGINS FOR THE NOVEMBER GENERAL ELECTION
1883: U.S. Supreme Court declares unconstitutional the Civil Rights Act of 1875, which banned discrimination in public places and facilitates the expansion of Jim Crow laws in the South TUESDAY / 16 1859: John Brown attacks Harper’s Ferry Arsenal 1919: Deportation Act for anarchist immigrants 2002: McDonald’s workers strike in Glasgow, Milan, Norfolk, Paris…
FRIDAY / 19 1960: Martin Luther King Jr. joins sit-in protest in department store in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, and is arrested with 51 others for attempting to desegregate the city’s stores and restaurants SATURDAY / 20 1956: Twenty-one people in Tallahassee, Florida are sentenced to jail for operating a carpool in support of those boycotting SUNDAY / 21 1967: Massive anti-war demonstration at Pentagon MONDAY / 22 1946: All-white jury in Holmes County,, Mississippi takes ten minutes to acquit three white men of lynching Leon McAtee, a black man they flogged for stealing a saddle
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MANDATORY SATURDAY VOTING FOR THE NOVEMBER GENERAL ELECTION 1920: 40,000 Philadelphia textile workers fired to rid factories of “troublemakers”
FRIDAY / 28 1879: Puerto Rican labor organizer and anarcho-feminist Luisa Capetillo born SATURDAY / 29 1869: White mob whips Georgia legislator Abram Colby for promoting equal rights for African Americans SUNDAY / 30 1967: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and Rev. Ralph Abernathy begin five-day jail sentences in Birmingham, Alabama, for leading civil rights demonstrations MONDAY / 31
Halloween
1919: Judge Anderson enjoins miners from striking; blames war
TUESDAY / 23 1956: Hungarian Revolution begins, workers’ councils and militias demand a socialism controlled by the working class itself WEDNESDAY / 24
Take Back Your Time Day
1940: 40-hour workweek law takes effect in U.S. THURSDAY / 25 1934: 25,000 dye workers strike, Patterson, New Jersey 2011: Police evict Occupy Oakland, fracturing Iraq veteran’s skull; protesters take the site back the next day FRIDAY / 26 1936: Hitler opens office for Combatting Abortion and Homosexuality
Our Vote, Our Power
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TAKE ACTION / NOVEMBER 2018 US CONGRESS IN DISTRICT NOV 1 - 12, 19 - 23 TUESDAY / 1 1916: Australian miners strike for shorter hours WEDNESDAY / 2
LAST DAY FOR A REGISTRAR TO ISSUE OR MAIL ABSENTEE BALLOTS FOR THE NOVEMBER GENERAL/SPECIAL ELECTION
2011: General strike in solidarity with Occupy Oakland closes port THURSDAY / 3 1883: U.S. Supreme Court decides Native Americans are aliens
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FRIDAY / 8 1889: A young black man is lynched in Leesburg, Virginia for frightening a white girl by wearing a sack on his head 1892: 20,000 black & white workers stage general strike, New Orleans, Louisiana SATURDAY / 9 1886: Texas legislature authorizes counties to employ jail inmates in public works and to lease them to private employers, with all profits going to county treasuries 1989: Berlin Wall falls
FRIDAY / 4 1956: Hungarian revolt crushed by Soviet troops in Budapest
FRIDAY / 10 1816: “Scab” meaning strikebreaker, used in print for the first time 1933: Sit-down strike begins at Austin, Minnesota Hormel plant
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1984: Anti-apartheid general strike, South Africa
1887: Haymarket martyrs executed
Guy Fawkes Day
Veterans Day
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FRIDAY / 12 1815: Elizabeth Cady Stanton born, early feminist
Diwali
SATURDAY / 13 1945: GM strike closes 96 plants
NOVEMBER GENERAL/SPECIAL ELECTION DAY 1909: Colored Alabamian reports that a Black wagon driver was shot dead because he did not “drive as far to the right as a white man thought he should” SATURDAY / 7 1931: Fisk University dean and student die from injuries sustained in a car accident after segregated Georgia hospital refuses to treat them
FRIDAY / 16 2015: Despite public outrage over a Texas history book that depicted enslaved people as “workers from Africa,” state lawmakers reject proposal that textbooks be fact-checked SATURDAY / 17 2011: 30,000 march across New York City, protesting Nov. 15 eviction of Occupy from Zuccoti park SUNDAY / 18 1918: Four-day general strike against cost of living, Portugal MONDAY / 19 1915: IWW songwriter Joe Hill murdered by Utah authorities TUESDAY / 20 1962: President John F. Kennedy orders an end to racial discrimination in Federally financed housing WEDNESDAY / 21 1927: U.S. Supreme Court in Gong Lum vs. Rice allows Chinese citizen’s exclusion from a state school for white children because she can attend a “colored school” with equal educational facilities
FRIDAY / 14 1960: Escorted by U.S. Marshalls, six-year-old Ruby Bridges integrates William Frantz Elementary in New Orleans, Louisiana, as mobs protest outside
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SATURDAY / 15 2010: Former police officer James Bonard Fowler pleads guilty to 1965 murder of civil rights activist Jimmie Lee Jackson in Marion, Alabama, and is sentenced to six months in jail
FRIDAY / 23 1170 BC: First recorded strike takes place in Egypt
SUNDAY / 25 1983: Canadian postal workers cut postal rates from 82 cents to 10 cents in direct action campaign MONDAY / 26 2016: Southern Poverty Law Center reports 400 physical and verbal attacks and incidents of intimidation and harassment of women, Muslims, immigrants and African Americans since Trump elected TUESDAY / 27 2012: Bangladesh garment workers strike to protest death of 123 in fire 2016: Lufthansa cancels 1,700 flights in second round of pilots strike WEDNESDAY / 28 1953: 20,000 NYC newspaper workers begin 11-day strike THURSDAY / 29 1985: 500,000-member Congress of South African Trade Union forms 2016: Fight for $15 strikes across the U.S. FRIDAY / 30 1930: Mother Jones dies: “I’m not a lady; I’m a hell-raiser!”
Thanksgiving
1909: New York female garment workers strike in ‘Uprising of the 20,000”; Judge tells arrested pickets “You are on strike against God”
SATURDAY / 24 1947: 22-month Chicago newspaper printers’ anti-Taft Hartley strike begins
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TAKE ACTION / DECEMBER 2018 SATURDAY / 1 1930: Kellogg cereal adopts 6-hour work day 1955: Rosa Parks keeps her bus seat after a hard day’s work
SUNDAY / 9 1872: P.B.S. Pinchback of Louisiana assumes impeached governor’s office, becoming the first black governor in the U.S.
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MONDAY / 10
MONDAY / 17TH 1985: UFCW blocks picketing of non-striking Hormel plants
1886: American Federation of Labor formed
TUESDAY / 18 1865: Ratification of the Thirteenth amendment to the U.S. Constitution, prohibiting Slavery and involuntary servitude except as punishment for crime, is announced
TUESDAY / 11 1995: 40,000 workers strike in London, Ont., to protest cuts in social programs and labor rights
WEDNESDAY / 19 2015: Amazon warehouse workers begin strike demanding company honor labor standards, Germany
WEDNESDAY / 12 2011: Occupy pickets close West Coast ports in solidarity with Longview, Washington workers
THURSDAY / 20 1960: Five-week ‘Winter Strike’ begins, 2,000 arrested, Belgium 1995: ACL agrees to stop using scab port after Newark, Nj dockers honor picket by locked-out Liverpool workers for third day
Hanukkah begins at Sunset 1990: Two-day general strike shuts down Israel; Free Palestine MONDAY / 3 1866: Textile strikers win 10-hour work day, Fall River, Massachusetts 1946: General strike in Oakland TUESDAY / 4 1969: Chicago police kill Black Panther Fred Hampton WEDNESDAY / 5 1955: Anti-segregation bus boycott begins in Montgomery 2013: Thousands of fast food workers strike across United States THURSDAY / 6 1907: 361 coal miners killed at Mcdonough, West Virginia FRIDAY / 7 1874: After a formerly enslaved man in elected Sheriff in Vicksburg, Mississippi, whites remove him and kill black citizens who try to reinstate him; six months later he is shot in the head by a white deputy SATURDAY / 8 1962: 114-day newspaper strike begins, New York 1977: Newspapers report that Cornell and Geraldine Cook, the only black couple in a white neighborhood, plan to leave after shots are fired into their home
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LAST DAY FOR A PERSON TO REGISTER AND BE ELIGIBLE TO VOTE IN THE GENERAL ELECTION RUNOFF FOR FEDERAL RACES
THURSDAY / 13 1981: Martial law declared in Poland; Solidarnosc suppressed 1995: 60,000 march in Brussels against austerity FRIDAY / 14
TARGET SINE DIE ADJOURNMENT FOR US CONGRESS
1964: In Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States, U.S. Supreme Court upholds Congress’s power to prohibit racial discrimination in privately owned hotels SATURDAY / 15 1890: Oglala Sioux chief Sitting Bull killed 1918: Textile workers strike for 8-hour work day, Lima, Peru
SUNDAY / 16 1970: Polish workers rebel against high prices, over 50 killed
FRIDAY / 21 1995: Police turn water cannons on 2,000 Belgium strikers trying to occupy airport terminal SATURDAY / 22 2013: Federal court in Alabama upholds redistricting plan that reduces black voting power SUNDAY / 23 1908: AFL officers found in contempt of court for urging boycott
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Christmas
1956: Civil Rights leader Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth survives bombing of his home in Birmingham, Alabama by the Klu Klux Klan - the first of five attempts on his life over the next seven years WEDNESDAY / 26
Boxing Day
1907: Massive NYC rent strike begins, 10,000 families participate THURSDAY / 27 1831: Christmas rebellion in Jamaica escalates: 60,000 of country’s 300,000 slaves rise against slavery 1911: UK cotton mills lock out 126,000 workers until Jan. 19 FRIDAY / 28 1936: GM sit-down strike begins at Fisher Body plant SATURDAY / 29 1890: Wounded Knee massacre of Oglala Sioux, Pine Ridge SD SUNDAY / 30 1936: GM sit-down strike spreads to Flint, Michigan MONDAY / 31
New Years Eve
1952: For the first time since 1881, a full year passes with no reports of any lynchings in the U.S.
MONDAY / 24
Christmas Eve
1913: 72 miners’ children killed in panic, Calumet, Michigan
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