MATT MEYER Our final keynote speaker is Matt Meyer, an internationally recognized author, academic, organizer, and educator who was recently re-elected Secretary General of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA).
And a special shoutout is in order for our staff who put this whole thing together— specifically our events team of Muriel and Kayla. We are so proud of the work that you did! Y’all are the best.
Thank you SO much to all who attended our conference this weekend both virtually and online! The speakers were so brilliant, the conversation was hugely engaging, and I am looking forward to seeing the fruit of all of the connections built.
Now available– Episode 5: Little Steel. In this new installation, Ben Fong explores the tragic failure of the Little Steel strike in the summer of 1937. Listen to it here soundcloud.com/organizetheu...cwd.asu.edu/breakroom/or...
This episode is devoted to the Little Steel strike in the summer of 1937, a tragic failure for the Steel Workers Organizing Committee and the CIO, and one that illustrated the limits of the New Deal o
indeed. I have terrific colleagues.
In his Labor Leadership Spotlight, CWD research aide Ian Sherwood focuses on UAW’s president, Shawn Fain, who led the union in a historic strike against the Big Three Automakers last year. Give it a read on our blog, Watercooler Talk, here: cwd.asu.edu/breakroom/bl...
We at the Center for Work and Democracy are so pleased with how the opening night of “Twin Flames: The George Floyd Uprising from Minneapolis to Phoenix” (our collaboration with the ASU Art Museum and George Floyd Global Memorial) went this past Friday.
I have terrific colleagues at @cwd-asu.bsky.social, including Ben Case...
In his new piece for the Conversation, CWD Postdoc Scholar Ben Case explores the possibility of a two-state solution to the ongoing genocide in Palestine, looking to the fall of South African Apartheid as a point of reference. Read the insightful article here: theconversation.com/a-two-state-...
While the conflict between Hamas and Israel is unique, the case of South Africa’s border war – and subsequent fall of apartheid – might offer lessons that apply to the Middle East.
Press coverage of the opening from the associated press: apnews.com/article/geor...
For months after George Floyd was killed by police in May 2020, people from around the world traveled to the site of his murder in Minneapolis and left signs, paintings and poems to memorialize the ma...