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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 155–165.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Kristal Brent Zook Abstract In 1990, in Indianola, Mississippi, there was a catfish-processing plant owned by 178 White male farmers. The workforce inside the plant was ninety percent Black and female. Led by an ordinary working mother turned union organizer named Sarah White, the women at Delta...
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Meridians (2016) 13 (2): 164–188.
Published: 01 March 2016
... images of women from the global south. It also examines the figure of the pan-Arab feminist Huda Shaarawi, who in 1919 organized the largest women's anti-British demonstration, and became in 1935 the vice president of the International Alliance of Women for Suffrage and Equal Citizenship, and in 1945...
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Meridians (2006) 7 (1): v–viii.
Published: 01 September 2006
... of her political consciousness, and the challenges of union organizing in a global economy. The exigencies of the era require frameworks of analysis that simultaneously critique external and internal developments that affect women's lives. In her essay, "Gender, Sovereignty, and the Discourse ofRights...
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Meridians (2003) 3 (2): 278–288.
Published: 01 March 2003
... couldhaverejectedmyeffortsB. uttheydidnot. Theysharedtheirdreamswithme.Andit wasgood. "Does your mama know you're in Mississippi?" The person asking was Geri Taylor, an organizer with the United Food and Commercial Workers Union. We were seated around a conference table at Local 1529 in Indianola, Mississippi. Four other...
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Meridians (2003) 3 (2): v–x.
Published: 01 March 2003
... invoked in Kristal Brent Zook's memoir essay, "Dreaming in the Delta," in which Zook reveals the struggles of union organizer Sarah White and the women of Local 1529 in Indianola, Mississippi. The piece serves at once as a reminder of working-class struggles that have taken place in the South...
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Meridians (2006) 7 (1): 191–213.
Published: 01 September 2006
... recognize a union for public employees as their bargaining agent. They can't strike, they can't go on work stoppages. So, all we can do under the law is that they are allowed to be represented by a union. So that's where we qualified. And so, I went into it to organize public employees, and I did. I...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 503–515.
Published: 01 October 2023
..., along with her husband, and worked full-time for a union organization. As for me, I’m single, dependent-less, and recently completed my doctoral degree. Diane is a creative professional, while I’m a creative academic. Over the course of my thesis project, these descriptors did and continued to place...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (1): 209–236.
Published: 01 April 2020
..., workers need their own decision-making bodies to sustain long-term organizing and create alternative institutions. Historically, workers have relied on unions and workers councils to carry out those goals. Unions have created collective bargaining agreements between bosses and workers, winning benefits...
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 93–102.
Published: 01 March 2004
... there are NGOs (non-governmental organizations) or non-profits; as well as mass-based people's movements, faith-based institutions, unions, academics, journalists, writers, cultural activists, and so on. So in 96 LAURA H. ROSKOS AND ANDREA L. HUMPHREY this landscape, the NGOs are just one sector...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 261–277.
Published: 01 October 2019
...Elisabeth Armstrong Abstract In 1949, at a conference instigated by the Women’s International Democratic Federation (WIDF) held in Beijing, China, the Asian Women’s Conference solidified an anticolonial, antifascist, and antiracist theory for organizing women transnationally. This transnational...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (2): 348–359.
Published: 01 October 2020
... to ignore the unrelenting transnational feminist alliance, the Pan-American Union ultimately extended an invitation to speak before the conference. An Equal Rights Committee organized by the women selected four representatives from the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the United States to speak...
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Meridians (2003) 3 (2): 250–277.
Published: 01 March 2003
... whenever such report is made known to the Union. "5 6 The AWU'spolitical charge was apparent in the organization's motto as well: Unity, Cooperation, Selfless Service, and Democracy. Special rules also alluded to the multi-class nature of the Union, for example, No member of the Union should think herself...
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Meridians (2010) 10 (2): 124–140.
Published: 01 March 2010
... empty and haunted, others divided into run-down apartments. I do remember being downtown with my mother, tugging at her hand to go into the candy-laden fiveand dime. A demonstration blocked the entrance, and my mother-a true daughter of her union organizer father-instructed me: "Younevercross a picket...
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Meridians (2016) 14 (1): 70–75.
Published: 01 June 2016
... union, academic, and artistic sites, and many more. As captured in their slogan, "VemMarcharcoma Gente"(Come March with Us) and spelled out in the "call to action" or "Manifesto" released in July 2014 and reproduced in translation in this issue, Marcha organizers worked especially to draw in women "who...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 508–512.
Published: 01 December 2020
...-Brazilian women’s groups and networks as well as from mixed-gender Black organizations, trade unions, and other networks—who, in accordance with Marcha by-laws, had to be represented by women members. Some localities where contemporary Black feminist organizing dates back to the 1970s, such as Rio de...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (1): 94–114.
Published: 01 April 2023
... implications for the broader politics involving kin groupings.” The construction of the Muslim Woman Other through media dissemination, the militarization of the Nador/Melilla border, and restrictive immigration policies from Spain and the European Union, encourage the exploitation and violation...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (1): 114–141.
Published: 01 September 2018
...). The socialist state also perceived Islam as "religious brainwashing," preventing the development of the modern, socialist, atheist consciousness that was considered to be the foundation for socialist and communist social organizations (Law 2012). Socialist state authorities in the Soviet Union and central...
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Meridians (2015) 13 (1): 53–77.
Published: 01 September 2015
... as in organizing and participating in hunger marches, labor marches, strikes, and the trade union movement of the 193os (Reddock 1994, 133). The significance of the Moyne Report for Reddock lies in how it systematically set about securing a sexual division of labor based upon the separatespheres model...
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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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Meridians (2014) 12 (2): 142–152.
Published: 01 September 2014
... March on Washington moment in the discursive relationship between freedom and dreaming. In 1863, Black Moses (also known as Harriet Tubman) achieved the first U.S. military victory organized and led by a woman, a decisive blow to a Confederacy that was at that time dominating and draining the Union...
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