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		<title>Labor and Community Spring Offensive! International Workers&#8217; Day Celebration Sunday, May 6</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[International Workers&#8217; Day on Sunday, May 6 &#8211; By Joelle Fishman, People’s World It is very exciting that many groups and individuals are joining together this spring to organize on behalf of the 99% for the future of our country. As a part of this great effort, the People&#8217;s World in Connecticut is hosting an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Labor History Association Annual Meeting June 3 to Feature Special Guest John Wilhelm, President of Unite Here</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 00:09:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8211; By Joan Cavanagh, Archivist, GNH Labor History Association The annual conference and meeting of the Greater New Haven Labor History Association will be held on Sunday, June 3rd from 1:30-5 p.m. at the New Haven Labor Council/ Teachers Building, 267 Chapel Street, New Haven. This year&#8217;s two Augusta Lewis Troup Preservation Award winners are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tuesday, May 1st, May Day on the Green</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 23:29:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8211; By Jeff  Spalter, May Day Celebration Committee Come celebrate May Day, International Workers’ Day, Tuesday, May 1, from noon until 6 p.m. on the New Haven Green. This is the 26th consecutive year of May Day on the Green. May Day is a multi-cultural participatory festival featuring live music, poetry, dance, children’s activities, speak-out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching Labor History Legislative Effort&#8217;s Good Start</title>
		<link>http://par-newhaven.org/2012/04/02/teaching-labor-history-legislative-efforts-good-start/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 14:48:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Steve Kass, GNH Labor History Task Force Teaching Labor History in the Connecticut public schools legislation received a public hearing in the education committee of the Connecticut state legislature on March 5, 2012. This legislative effort initiated by the Greater New Haven Labor History Association had strong support from the Connecticut AFL-CIO and many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>April 4 Jobs Not Jails March</title>
		<link>http://par-newhaven.org/2012/01/29/april-4-jobs-not-jails-march/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:50:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Deb Malatesta, ANSWER CT On April 4th ANSWER CT will be sponsoring a Jobs Not Jails march and demonstration in solidarity with many others around the country. Despite having only 5 percent of the world&#8217;s population the United States contains 25 percent of the world&#8217;s incarcerated persons, with 2 million people imprisoned. This is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>March 3, Discussion and Book-Signing with Jeremy Brecher, Author of Save the Humans?: Common Preservation in Action</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:47:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Joan Cavanagh, Archivist/ Director, Greater New Haven Labor History Association “I had of course heard about the sit-down strikes and the   great industrial union organizing campaigns of the 1930s, though there was actually very little historical writing about them available in the 1960s. I had heard of the ‘Haymarket riots,’ but I didn’t know [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Trade Union Research Delegation to Cuba: April 25-May 2, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:42:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Al Marder, GNH Peace Council With U.S. Labor for Friendship with Cuba as a program consultant, Marazul Charters, Inc. is organizing a research delegation to Cuba for full-time trade unionists:  April 25 -May 2, 2012. The research goals of the delegation are to (1) learn how the Central de Trabajadores de Cuba (CTC), Workers’ [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crewel Linen: Remembering the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire</title>
		<link>http://par-newhaven.org/2011/12/29/crewel-linen-remembering-the-triangle-shirtwaist-factory-fire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:55:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8211; Stephen Kobasa, West Cove Studio Collective At the end of last year, marking the centennial of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in which 146 workers died, a commemorative installation went on view at the A-Space Gallery of the West Cove Studio Collective in West Haven. Created by the Connecticut artist Cate Bourke, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Haven Worker&#8217;s Association/ULA celebrates its 2011 victories for worker&#8217;s rights</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 14:04:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8211; Megan Fountain, ULA Downtown the Taft Restaurant is paying a $50,000 settlement to six former kitchen workers, who led a boycott against the restaurant for failure to pay minimum wage and overtime. The cook staff worked more than 70 hours per week but received only $4 &#8211; $6 per hour and some weeks were not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jobs for Youth — Jobs for All</title>
		<link>http://par-newhaven.org/2011/12/01/jobs-for-youth-%e2%80%94-jobs-for-all/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 16:05:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[— Joelle Fishman, People’s World After a march of 200 for youth jobs and a press conference of nearly 100 at the Q House for infrastructure jobs, remembering all the youth who have died violently this year, the youth are getting ready to rally. The location is the Jobs for Youth – Jobs for All! [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amistad Awards: Jobs for Youth – Jobs for All!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2011 15:22:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[– Joelle Fishman, People’s World “Jobs for Youth – Jobs for All!” Is the theme of this year’s People’s World Amistad Awards rally to be held Sunday, December 4, 2011 at 4 p.m. at Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School, 177 College Street, New Haven. Cultural presentations by New Haven high school students will be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Family Work History Project, Phase II</title>
		<link>http://par-newhaven.org/2011/10/04/family-work-history-project-phase-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:35:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8211; Paula Panzarella, Project Coordinator, Family Work History Project Last Spring, Christine Saari, the Outreach Coordinator of the Greater New Haven Labor History Association (GNHLHA), initiated a wonderfully successful labor history program with students from Worthington Hooker and Katherine Brennan schools.  Almost one hundred sixth and eighth-grade social studies students learned how to conduct interviews [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Labor History In The Schools</title>
		<link>http://par-newhaven.org/2011/08/31/labor-history-in-the-schools-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 22:57:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[– Steve Kass, Exec. Board Member, GNH Labor History Association “The history of the American labor movement needs to be taught in every school in this land…. America is a living testimonial to what free men and women organized into free democratic trade unions can do to make a better life…. we ought to be [...]]]></description>
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