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Eleanor Finley on Rojava, Democratic Confederalism, and the U.S.
Tuesday, April 11, 2023 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EDTVan Metre Hall (formerly Founders Hall), #118 Please be certain to register here: https://forms.gle/cL19syP5p9497n5KA Eleanor Finley is a guest of the 2023 Next System Speakers Series: One of the first questions that...
On May Day, Let’s Make Bold Demands for Democracy at Work and in the Streets
via Truthout by Robert D. Raymond Published on April 30, 2022 As we continue to watch federal and state governments fail us on issue after issue — from climate change to voting rights to even the most basic of human rights, such as the right to an abortion — a growing...
Antipode Foundation Scholar-Activist Project – 2017/18 recipient
We Solidarity Research Center are grateful to have been awarded the Antipode Foundation Scholar-Activist Project award for 2017-18 for our Solidarity Los Angeles project. “Solidarity Los Angeles” Yvonne Yen Liu and Diana Benitez (Solidarity Research...
Q&A: Solidarity Research Center’s Yvonne Yen Liu on the power of cooperative economics
The Solidarity Research Center based in Los Angeles, California, was established in 2014 by a group of researchers and academics with roots in organized labor. Now they are working on projects across the country, linking the ethos of the labor movement and the dynamics of the cooperative economy to build and promote cooperatives across a wide range of sectors.
Inside America’s biggest prison strike: ‘The 13th amendment didn’t end slavery’
Nicky Wolf, October 22, 2016, "Inside America's biggest prison strike: 'The 13th amendment didn't end slavery'," The Guardian. [button link="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/22/inside-us-prison-strike-labor-protest" type="big" color="orange"...
Prison Strike Having Major Financial Impact On California
Popular Resistance, October 12 2016, "The Loss of Prison Slave Labor Means the Loss of More Than $600,000 Every Day of the Strike" [button link="https://www.popularresistance.org/prison-strike-having-major-financial-impact-on-california/" type="big" color="orange"...