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Keeping the Dream Alive

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:48:55 -0700

Calwell Elementary principal Lawanda Hill says "one of the greatest civil rights that one could have is access to equal education."

"Organize Our Community"

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:49:36 -0700

Jesse Epps, a leader during the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers strike, joined the AFL-CIO's MLK Conference this past weekend.

"We Fight for Our Rights"

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:49:08 -0700

UMWA member Brenda Ellis says "we're really fighting for... our children."

Labor and Civil Rights

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:49:23 -0700

AFSCME member Dorothy Crook says "labor and civil rights are one and the same."

I Am A Man (shortened version)

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:50:07 -0700

The story of the 1968 sanitation workers' strike and the support they received from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Support for Sanitation Workers

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 07:24:36 -0800

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. offered inspiring words of support to the 1968 striking sanitation workers.

"Somewhere I Read..."

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:49:53 -0700

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said the "greatness of America is the right to protest for rights" in his April 3, 1968 speech.

I See the Promised Land

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 07:22:44 -0800

Prophetic words from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s I See the Promised Land speech the day before his assassination.

Power in Diversity

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 09:37:19 -0800

As our first step in moving those goals into action, we held a series of regional Diversity Dialogues in the summer of 2007, daylong discussions where we took a look at what we must do together to make Resolution #2 real.

Acuff: 'We need a global union strategy'

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 09:21:47 -0800

On Dec. 10, International Human Rights Day, workers in the United State are marking the destruction of workers' rights here and renewing our commitment to restoring the freedom to form unions.