Aug 26 2009
Fannie Sellins
Back in the day on August 26th, 1919, labor organizer Fannie Sellins was brutally gunned down in West Pennsylvania. Dubbed ‘the angel of mercy’ for her unionizing efforts, Sellins had successfully organized workers in Missouri and West Virginia before United Mine Workers of America leader Philip Murray, impressed by her dedication, offered her a position with the …
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Aug 25 2009
The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters\
Back in the day on August 25th, 1925, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters was formed in New York. A. Phillip Randolph, a socialist once dubbed as ‘the most dangerous black man in America’ was designated as its leader. The BSCP was extremely significant as a black union dedicated to organizing on twin …
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Aug 24 2009
The Communist Control Act
Back in the day on August 24th, 1954, the Congress of the United States passed the Communist Control Act into law. President Dwight D. Eisenhower remarked upon signing the bill saying that it was “designed to place into the hands of our law enforcement agencies, better weapons for combating the Community menace.” Though Senator Joseph …
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Aug 21 2009
Huey Newton’s Support of Women and Gays
Back in the day on August 21st, 1970, Huey P. Newton of the Black Panther Party wrote an honest and powerful statement in favor of gay and women’s rights. Published in the pages of the party’s newspaper, “A Letter from Huey to the Revolutionary Brothers and Sisters About the Women’s Liberation …
Aug 20 2009
Jonathan Myrick Daniels
Back in the day on August 20th, 1965, civil rights activist and seminarian Jonathan Myrick Daniels was gunned down in Alabama. The twenty-six year old student enrolled at the Episcopal Theological Seminary in Massachusetts heeded the call of Dr. Martin Luther King to stand in direct solidarity with the oppressed blacks of Selma. Daniels took …
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Aug 19 2009
The Murder of Federico Garcia Lorca
Back in the day on August 19th, 1936, Spanish poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca was murdered. With the initial phases of the civil war in Spain raging, the avant-garde dramatist had taken refuge in the province of Granada were he was born thirty-eight years before his death. Garcia Lorca, sensing that …
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Aug 18 2009
Woodstock
Back in the day on August 18th, 1969, Jimi Hendrix brought the historic counter-culture music festival known as “Woodstock” to a close. Exactly forty years ago, ‘the biggest rock concert of its time’ extended past its schedule into the early Monday morning hours. Those who stayed until the end witnessed one of the most prolific guitarists in …
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Aug 17 2009
The Dakota Uprising
Back in the day on August 17th, 1862, four Dakota natives killed five white settlers while returning from an unsuccessful hunting expedition in Minnesota. Councils were held immediately after the incident where the Dakota people, deeply divided, decided that war with settlers and the U.S. military was inevitable. The summer of 1862 had been particularly …
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Aug 14 2009
The End of the Second Seminole War
Back in the day on August 14th, 1842, the second Seminole War in Florida came to an official end. Prior to the onset of renewed conflict, President Andrew Jackson, who in the first war led army attacks on Seminole villages burning them down to the ground, saw to it that the …
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Aug 13 2009
Newspaper Guild Strike of 1936
Back in the day on August 13th, 1936, a newspaper guild strike was called against the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. At the center of the dispute was the firing of two long-time employees by the management of the William Randolph Hearst owned daily. Editorial staff members of the P-I believed that the real reason behind …
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Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis Is Coming To Los Angeles!
Come and hear Varoufakis speak in person on Saturday April 23rd in Pasadena, California, at his ONLY Los Angeles-area event!
WHEN: Saturday April 23rd, Reception at 12 noon, Event at 1 pm
WHERE: Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church, 301 N. Orange Grove Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91103
Yanis Varoufakis of the Syriza Party took the European political establishment by storm a year ago when he was appointed Finance Minister of Greece by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. Varoufakis is an ……
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