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Posts from the ‘Grand Rapids People’s History Project’ Category

1July 14, 2020We don’t need no stinking permits to protest: 100 years of dissent and disruption in Grand Rapids

0July 6, 2020Grand Rapids, Statues and White Supremacy

1June 21, 2020What we can learn from the 1967 riot/uprising in Grand Rapids and how it compares to what is happening in 2020

12June 17, 2020How did a third of the City’s Budget get designated to the GRPD: The Safety 95 Campaign and White fear in Grand Rapids

0April 6, 2020A People’s History of Grand Rapids

0September 24, 2018Grand Valley Labor News three-part series on Amway from 1980

0April 5, 2017Celebrating the Grand Rapids Furniture Workers Strike of 1911: Lessons for contemporary organizing and resistance

2March 14, 2013This Day in Resistance History: Activists arrested in protest for the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990

1March 10, 2013This Day is Resistance History: Women’s Suffrage Movement does direct action at National Gallery in London in 1914

0February 12, 2013This Day in Resistance History: WWI & WWII vets burn their draft cards