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

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

0February 7, 2013This Day in Resistance History: Gay Liberation Front tears down hate speech sign from bar

1February 3, 2013This Day in Resistance History: Hope College graduate A.J. Muste and the 1919 Lawrence textile workers strike

0January 16, 2013This Day in Resistance History: 1992 Ceasefire in El Salvador

2January 8, 2013This Day in Resistance History: French Farmers Destroy GMO Crops

3January 2, 2013This Day in Resistance History: Free Blacks in Philadelphia petition Congress to Abolish Slavery

0September 5, 2012This Day in Resistance History: the First Labor Day – September 5, 1882