Ypsilanti IWW

04/23/2026

🔥Ypsi May Day: Celebrating Resistance and Community

🔥Join your neighbors and fellow workers as we celebrate our collective power, across two days of activities. Check out all the wonderful events people have organized below.

*Note: This is a decentralized event; this is a collection of events organized by a variety of individuals, groups, and organizations.*

🗓️Friday, May 1st:

• Building Union Power Discussion: 5-9pm at 734 Brewing

• Block Party + May Day Discussion: 5-8pm from 418 Oak St. to 324 Oak St.

• Q***r Utopia: 8:00pm-late at the Regal Beagle Ypsi

🗓️Saturday, May 2nd:

• May Day March: 11am, starting at 9/11 memorial (W Cross St. and Perrin St.)

• Workshops, Discussions, Reportbacks: 12pm-4pm at Frog Island Park (food + childcare provided)

• Neighborhood Assembly of Assemblies: 4-7pm at Frog Island Park (food + childcare provided)

• Movie Screening (The Elements of Mutual Aid): 8pm-late at Frog Island Park
(if bad weather, keep an eye out for location updates)

02/15/2026

In his poem “The Grievance, It’s Out of My Hands,” Martin Glaberman lays bare the dead end of business unionism. He traces the life of a workplace grievance as it leaves the worker’s hands, passes …

12/01/2025

Workers, rise up! Organize!

11/17/2025

https://industrialworker.org/rebuilding-the-iww/

“Today is not June 27th, 1905 [the founding date of the IWW]. The world has moved forward, of course, but for many people in the working class we have moved backward. Our class is less organi…

10/29/2025

TONIGHT! SEE YOU THERE!

Fellow Workers, join the Ypsi IWW for a discussion on Industrial Unionism at the YDL-Superior branch’s Meeting Room on Wednesday, October 29 at 6:30 pm. Food, drinks, and goodie bags will be provided. Wear a costume! Kid-Friendly!

Address: 1900 N Harris Rd, Superior Township, MI 48198

Suggested Readings: https://bit.ly/IndustrialUnionism

10/19/2025

Fellow Workers, join the Ypsi IWW for a discussion on Industrial Unionism at the YDL-Superior branch’s Meeting Room on Wednesday, October 29 at 6:30 pm. Food, drinks, and goodie bags will be provided. Wear a costume! Kid-Friendly!

Address: 1900 N Harris Rd, Superior Township, MI 48198

Suggested Readings: https://bit.ly/IndustrialUnionism

08/22/2025

❤️🖤 We had a great discussion tonight about what labor law means to us as workers, and how to make sure our organizing isn’t dependent on it. 🖤❤️

😢 Couldn’t make this discussion and feeling the FOMO? No worries, we have routine monthly or bimonthly public discussions on a variety of topics! We’ll see you at the next one! ✨

07/04/2025

Today in Labor History July 2, 1929: Augusto Sandino left for México to seek aid for his Nicaraguan rebels, fighting the U.S. occupation of his country. The rebellion lasted from 1927-1933. In 1934, he was assassinated by General Anastasio Somoza, who seized power in a 1936 coup d’etat, and who, along with his sons, ran the country as dictators until the Sandinista Revolution of 1979 ended their reign of terror. While in México, during early 1920s, Sandino participated in strikes led by the IWW. Inspired by the Wobblies, he returned to foment revolution in Nicaragua, adopting the IWW's black and red syndicalist colors in their Revolutionary Flag.

06/13/2025

Working-class solidarity!

¡Solidaridad entre la clase trabajadora!