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Sacramento IWOC Aids Incarcerated Firefighters

Summer heat in US prisons has become a major issue, with facilities in states like Texas not providing air conditioning. California facilities are typically equipped with air conditioning, and CDCR even has guidelines on when it must be turned on. Despite this, incarcerated women firefighters returning to Chowchilla prison from duty a month ago found […]

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Beloved Area Non-Profit Fires 5 Workers without Notice or Severance

The Gender Health Center (or GHC) is a Sacramento non-profit that serves as a resource for transgender and non-gender-conforming people locally and across the country. However, like many non-profits, the values they publicly espouse are not always reflected in how they treat their own staff. After five GHC workers were fired, they released the following […]

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Support Labor Journalism by pre-ordering Kim Kelly’s Book!

For a few years now, Kim Kelly has been one of the best, if not the best, labor journalists in the United States. Her work is down to earth and genuine. Her words are written for fellow workers, and her critical eye catches a lot of what other writers on labor miss. Unfortunately, we do […]

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Protected: August 31st Intro to the IWW

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Protected: August 17th workshop, how to defeat union-busting

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Protected: August 3rd Organizing Recording

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Come to our free online organizing workshops!

We hold free workshops twice per month covering communication and organizing methods that help working people connect, build confidence and improve their working conditions together. For the duration of the pandemic, our workshops are held using jitsi.org, a free and encrypted online meeting platform. Our workshops are at 7:30pm (pacific time) on the 1st and […]

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Rebecca Friedrichs Speaks at UC Davis: Sacramento Wobblies and YDSA at UC Davis Respond

Written by X389468Pictures by a Fellow Worker Typically May Day is a day where leftists and union folks of all stripes get together and remember both martyrs for the labor movement and the gains that have been made since the Haymarket Affair well over a hundred years ago; however, there are certainly folks who neither […]

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The Importance of Song in The Industrial Workers of the World

By X389468 Over the years, IWW members have written hundreds of songs. These range from the ever-popular “Solidarity Forever” to more forgettable numbers such as “There’s A Bright Way To Freedom” or “When You Wear That Button”. Some are still sung today, though many languish unsung between the pages of an old edition of the […]

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A History of the IWW: Encounters With The Law

If you have ever looked at the history of the IWW, chances are you’ve noticed that IWW members get arrested and end up in jail a lot. The most famous stretch of time where large concentrations of Wobblies ended up in America’s jails is during and just after the First World War, but even before […]