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The San Francisco General Strike & The Minneapolis General Strike – Lesson from Both
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2024 San Francisco LaborFest; NOTE: 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT (3-5p EDT); FREE, ONLINE
This year is the 90th anniversary of both the Minneapolis Teamster General Strike and the San Francisco General Strike. This panel will look at the victories and lessons of those strikes for today.
Panel:
Professor Peter Rachleff – Co-Executive Director of the East Side Freedom Library, and a retired professor of history at Macalester College in the St. Paul, Minnesota specializing in United States labor, immigration and African American
Keith Christensen – St. Cloud State University Emeritus, Designer & Artist, Remember ’34 Collective
Gifford Hartman – Labor historian, LaborFest Committee