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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 155–165.
Published: 01 December 2020
... her as much about herself, as it did about human rights and dignity in America today. Copyright © 2003 Wesleyan University Press, now published by Duke University Press on behalf of Smith College 2003 labor unions union organizers African American women Mississippi Delta women workers...
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Meridians (2006) 7 (1): 191–213.
Published: 01 September 2006
... went to work with a labor union-was it the International Laborers' Union? LINDA CHAVEZ-THOMPSON: Yes. KATHLEEN BANKS NUTTER: Why then? How'd you get there? 198 KATHLEEN BANKS NUTTER AND LINDA CHAVEZ-THOMPSON LINDA CHAVEZ-THOMPSON: My uncle, my daddy's brother, lived out in another section of the city...
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Meridians (2006) 7 (1): v–viii.
Published: 01 September 2006
... History Project with Linda Chavez-Thompson: a hero of the labor movement and the first woman and person of color to hold the office of executive vice president (the third-ranking officer) of the AFL-CIO.Before attaining the position, Chavez-Thompson, one of eight children born to first-generation parents...
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Meridians (2002) 3 (1): 191–200.
Published: 01 September 2002
... was organized under the following themes: Community Health Initiatives; Domestic Violence; Domestic Servitude/Empowerment and Ideology; and Women's Activism in Labor Unions. Why a Dialogue Between the Two Groups? South Africanwomen and African American women, respectively,emerge out ofwell-documented systems...
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Meridians (2001) 2 (1): 42–57.
Published: 01 September 2001
... on behalf of the Foreign Labor Union, and his inability to obtain reliable work leave him disillusioned. Amiri's highly critical perspectives on Japanese culture-its fierce individualism and abuse of migrant workers-are the moral conscience of this film. Through these people, Overstay attempts to attach...
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Meridians (2002) 3 (1): 19–41.
Published: 01 September 2002
... sometimes has revolutionary consequences insofar as it politicizes the networks of everydaylife" (p. 545). 3. Derechos Human Rights. San Leandro, California. 16 April 2002. <httpwww.derechos.org/nizkor/impu/eng.html>. 4. The Tribunal was sponsored by a wide array of human rights organizations, labor unions...
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Meridians (2015) 13 (1): 129–156.
Published: 01 September 2015
... citizens. "When we talk about globalization, we see that these companies can go anywhere in the world," one promotora comments. The film reaches its climax when, lacking support from factory labor unions (which are virtual unions paid for and used by many Asian corporations to cover up their wrongdoings...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (1): 65–84.
Published: 01 April 2020
...-gate” protests. So, too, were the issues that Biggs has consistently championed. Two years of May Day protests by labor unions to defend pensions and the rights of workers turned out to be the dress rehearsal for the Puerto Rican Summer of 2019. What remains unclear is whether PROMESA can exploit...
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Meridians (2011) 11 (1): 66–90.
Published: 01 September 2011
... to empower the audience (Campbell 1989, 13). Building on Campbell's work, Mari Boor Tonn argued that "maternal roles were particularly apt rhetorical strategies for female labor union agitators because agitation and mothering often share two essential dimensions: 68 MERIDIANS 11:1 nurturing and militancy...
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 163–184.
Published: 01 March 2002
... captured the attention of other Black feminists, including Mary Ann Shadd Cary, who reported her development to the Colored National Labor Union convention in 1869 (Wilson 1996). Frances Rollin, a member of a prominent nineteenth-century Black family, noted in her diary that photographs of Edmonia were...
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Meridians (2015) 13 (1): 204–232.
Published: 01 September 2015
... and writing skills (Chisholm 1970, 20-22; 1978a). Once back in Brooklyn at age ten, Chisholm became very close to her father, who introduced her to UNIA and labor union politics (Chisholm 2000, 32; 2003, part 3,15-16). She attended the mostly white Girls' High School and then Brooklyn College, eventually part...
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Meridians (2016) 14 (1): 121–147.
Published: 01 June 2016
... the National Program for STDs and AIDS. Establishment of the National AIDS Program occurred within a larger context of mobilization by political parties, labor unions, universities, women's rights activists, anti-racist activists, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to reestablish democratic forms...
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Meridians (2003) 3 (2): 250–277.
Published: 01 March 2003
..., and kola increased trading opportunities for both men and women. Yetboth men and women were subject to forced labor as the state oversaw the construction of roads to carry these goods to markets. The EUG began using forced labor by 1901for road construction (Ajisafe 1948, n6). The Order of Council...
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Meridians (2015) 13 (1): 53–77.
Published: 01 September 2015
... (Spry Rush 2011, 70), so direct action and labor activism were the primary means by which the mass of the Caribbean population could assert their economic and political claims. These events sowed the seeds of both the Caribbean unionized labor movement and Caribbean anticolonial DENISE NOBLE...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (1): 209–236.
Published: 01 April 2020
.../2017/10/lucio_perez_springfield_man_fa.html . Gorz André . 1967 . Strategy for Labor: A Radical Proposal . Boston : Beacon Press . Gotlieb Amy . 2018 . “ ICE Detained My Husband for Being an Activist .” New York Times , January 18 . https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/18/opinion...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (1): 94–114.
Published: 01 April 2023
... the management and ordering of the border and in need of violent discipline. The militarization of the Nador/Melilla border and implementation of immigration laws have served as major justifications to covertly exploit and cheapen the labor of Moroccan Muslim working-class women through globalized free market...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 396–413.
Published: 01 October 2021
... . Klots Alissa . 2018 . “ The Kitchen Maid as Revolutionary Symbol: Paid Domestic Labour and the Emancipation of Soviet Women, 1917–1941 .” In The Palgrave Handbook on Women and Gender in Twentieth-Century Russia and the Soviet Union , edited by Ilic Melanie , 83 – 100 . London : Palgrave...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 261–277.
Published: 01 October 2019
..., and congealing around the USSR for the democratic camp. Fascism, colonialism, imperialist expansion, and war marked the imperialist camp, and the fight for labor, peace, democracy, and national liberation defined the other. Andrei Zhdanov, “Report on the International Situation to the Cominform,” September 22...
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Meridians (2006) 7 (1): 222–224.
Published: 01 September 2006
... and went to work. In 1967, at the age of twenty-three, she went to work for the Laborers' International Union and served as secretary for the Lubbock local; as the only Spanish-speaking union officer, she represented all of the Hispanic workers within the local. Four years later, she went to work...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 306–331.
Published: 01 October 2024
... and collectively pushing for better and safer job conditions. In short, the WOW program is equipping women with the necessary skills and knowledge to organize labor and lead unions via the provision of feminist consciousness related to struggling against neoliberal policy, developing tactics for workplace...
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