Women and Femmes in Labor and Education

03/29/2021

Activist María Jiménez (2/8/1950-1/12/202) "empowered many young people and women, she developed organizing processes tailored to specific campaigns and she knew how to understand and integrate the wisdom and traditions of the people’s culture."

https://www.popedliberates.org/post/mar%C3%ADa-jiménez-una-chicana-que-abrazó-la-educación-popular-2-8-1950-1-12-2020?fbclid=IwAR2k-8wwfNHLNWfUccjmHoDrH8m6kn0AK2AO6noyHlC8cN3BKuZI1ay-V4Y

By Elmer Romero,Popular Educator at the National Day Laborer Organizing Network -NDLON Translated by Hilary Stern It was 2006 and The National Day Laborer Organizing Network had called its membership for its biannual Assembly in Silver Spring, Maryland. Day laborers, domestic workers, community lead...

03/16/2021

POC Activism Fatigue
Date: Wednesday, March 17, 10:00am - 12:00pm
Instructors: Cassie Williams & Alanna Galloway
Cost: Free, but registration is required

Course Description:
From heightened racial tension to adjusting to the uncertainties of life during a pandemic, activism comes with great pressure. POC activists come and discuss how racial injustice affects our wellbeing and strategies to manage activism fatigue in order to continue to fight.

Register here :https://carlsonschool.umn.edu/faculty-research/labor-education-service/programs-and-courses/labor-studies-skills-courses

"Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare." -Audre Lorde

Read more about the Labor Studies Skills courses offered by the Carlson School of Management.

03/05/2021

It is important to celebrate and honor all women during Women's History Month. Take a look at the New-York Historical Society Museum and Library: Women at the Center article about indigenous women activists:

The New-York Historical Society’s exhibition, Women March, commemorates the centennial of the 19th Amendment as it explores the efforts of a wide range of women’s collective efforts to expand American democracy in the centuries before and after the suffrage victory. While the Museum is temporar...

03/04/2021

March is Women's History month! This is a time to celebrate and honor the contributions and achievements of women. Here is how it started:

It involves the U.N., the Socialist Party and a struggle for equal rights.

02/26/2021

As we come to the end of Black History month, lets recognize Addie L. Wyatt (1924-2012) who was an important figure in the labor movement and the Civil Rights Movement. Learn more about her below:
https://www.ufcw.org/black-history-month-addie-wyatt/

02/24/2021

Ruth Ellis was an African-American activist and community organizer, who was the oldest living le***an when she died in 2000. Born in 1899 in Springfield, IL, Ruth moved to Detroit in 1937 with her partner, Babe Franklin. For decades, Ruth and Babe operated a printing press and a community space for Black gay and le***an youth, known as "the Gay Spot," out of their Detroit home. You can learn more about Ruth's life and legacy here:

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02/17/2021

You may have heard the phrase, "the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house," but do you know the context of that quote? The Black, le***an poet, essayist, and activist Audre Lorde shared this brilliant insight in her conference presentation of the same name, where she criticized the white, heterosexual feminist conference organizers for thinking of feminism too narrowly. Here's the larger quote for more context, followed by a link to learn more about the life and legacy of Audre Lorde. Be sure to check out some of her poems, linked at the end of her biography.

"Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of difference -- those of us who are poor, who are le***ans, who are Black, who are older -- know that survival is not an academic skill. It is learning how to take our differences and make them strengths. For the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. And this fact is only threatening to those women who still define the master's house as their only source of support."

A self-described “black, le***an, mother, warrior, poet,” Audre Lorde dedicated both her life and her creative talent to confronting and addressing injustices of racism, sexism, classism, and homophobia. Lorde was born in New York City to West Indian immigrant parents. She attended Catholic scho...

02/12/2021

Former Chicago Teachers' Union president Karen Lewis passed away earlier this week after a long struggle with brain cancer. Karen was a founding member of the Caucus of Rank-and-File Educators (CORE), the group that completely transformed the CTU from a passive, service-model union into one of the most robust, aggressive, and successful member-led unions in the United States. The labor movement and all movements for social change are forever in her debt. In this article, Karen is remembered by her comrade and a fellow CORE co-founder, Jackson Potter.

Former Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis’s bombastic way of painting the union’s class enemies as out-of-touch corporate hacks was genius political theater, and her commitment to democratic, militant unionism was unflagging. Lewis played an integral role in transforming teachers' unio...

02/11/2021

Check out our upcoming class on Working Parents & Virtual Learning. Register now before it fills up!!!

Working Parents & Virtual Learning
Date: Thursday, February 18, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Instructor: Cassie Williams
Fee: No cost, but registration is required

Course Description:
Virtual learning has been a great challenge for many working parents. Come and share both the challenges and joys of working and learning with your children as well as strategies to balance the load.
Register here

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02/04/2021

Most of us know the story of Rosa Parks’ brave refusal to move to the back of the bus as a protest against segregation in Montgomery, AL, during the Civil Rights Movement. Today, we lift up this NYT piece on her incredible life, and we promise, you’ll learn something new about her life and legacy. (We did!)

The way we talk about her covers up uncomfortable truths about American racism.

02/01/2021

On the first day of Black History Month, we are lifting up this incredible story from National Nurses United about Salaria Kea, a Black, antifacist nurse and organizer from Milledgeville, Georgia.

“To kick off — in a year when fascist white supremacy has already reared its ugly head— we lift up ✨Salaria Kea✨ a Black nurse born in 1917 Milledgeville, Georgia, who helped fight against the fascist invasion of Spain. A thread (1/10) ”