On this page you will find posts about labor, union organizing, working, and the working class. Look here for discussion of unemployment, job creation, worker centers, particular unions, the MN AFL-CIO and labor history in Minneapolis. The Trucker’s Strike of 1934, CTUL, Teacher’s Strikes, Industrial Workers of the World.

Brenna Dep


Youth Worker Learns Liberating Power of a Poem
Jason Sole at Hamline University, January 23, 2020

Jason Sole


Formerly Incarcerated Professor Makes Sacred Trouble

Jane Burnett


St. Louis Park Girl Radicalized in 70s Chicago, Organizes at Ford Plant, St. Olaf Alumni

Elizabeth Faue


Feminist Labor Historian Returns to North Minneapolis Roots

Angela Conley


Hennepin County Commissioner Learned to Solve "Unsolvable Problems" by Listening to Survivors

Jess Sundin


Police Justice and Anti-War Activist: The People Are My Mountains

Connie Edberg


Native American Educator Refuses to be Objectified or Typecast

April Knutson


Former Leader of MN CP Continues to Build United Fronts

Michael McConnell


Married His Husband in 1971, Demands Equality for All.

Jerry Rau


Vietnam Veteran Against War becomes Sidewalk Troubadour

Nelsie Yang


Hmong American with Northside Roots, Seeks Justice through City Hall and Streets

Cathy Jones


Postal Worker Fights Police Brutality, Discrimination in the Workplace

Sandy Berman


The Making of a Radical Librarian

Lisa Albrecht


Lesbian Feminist Educator Still Learning, To Repair the World

Effie Lee


Born in Mississippi in 1937, Recruited by Tuskegee to Work Minneapolis Food Service

Elizabeth Tannen


NYC Poet Finds Community in Minneapolis Police Abolition Movement.

Hye-Kyong Kim


Korean Adoptee's Asian Identity Journey, Leads to Career as Trauma Healer

Adriana Cerrillo


Elevates Immigrant Voices to Change Racist Policies

Valérie Déus


Haitian American Poet Misses New York, Builds Artist's Life in South Minneapolis

Kendrick Wronski


Woman Behind the Painted Signs that Teach Anti-Racism

Sherry Quan Lee


Black/ Asian Writer Grapples with Identity, Dares to Nurture Untold Stories

Mel Reeves (1957-2022)


Long-Time Organizer Against Police Brutality, Fights the Power

Ricardo Levins Morales


Puerto Rican Social Justice Artist Organizes to Win

Tina Burnside


Civil Civil Rights Attorney & Museum Curator Harvests the Stories Community Needs

R. Vincent Moniz Jr.


Indigenous Poet on Growing Up "Urban Indian" in Phillips Neighborhood.

Barb Tilsen


Singer, Songwriter, Poet, Mother, Grandmother, Organizer

Acoma Gaither


Public Historian Archives George Floyd Memorial, and History of Minneapolis Mutual Aid

Minerva Munoz


Makes Space in College For Working-Class People Like Her.

Veronica Mendez Moore


CTUL Organizer Builds Labor Power with Marginalized Workers

Wyn Massey


Minneapolis Labor Activist Recalls 40 Years of Resistance

Louis Alemayehu


The Making of A Multicultural Spiritual Elder.

Mustafa Diriye


Somali Immigrant Found What Makes Home: Colleges, Coffee Shops and a Mosque

Marcie Rendon


Fought Criminal Injustice with American Indian Movement, became Indigenous Mystery Writer

Rose Brewer


From Tulsa to Minneapolis: Activist Scholar is Rooted in Community

Alice A. Anderson (1932-2017)


Born On the MN/Canadian Border. Beautiful Activist of South Minneapolis

Tom O’Connell


Our Minneapolis Revolution: 1930s, 1970s, & Today.

Daniel Alberto Perez


For School Social Worker; Labor, & Immigrant Rights Organizer, Three North American Nations are Home

Angela Hooks


Beauty Queen Advocates Black On Black Development & Solidarity with Incarcerated People

Minneapolis Interview Project Explained


What you need to know about using this site

Bruce Drewlow


Northern Minnesota to North Minneapolis; the Education of an Educator.

Tammy Ortegon


Artist Exposes Minneapolis’ Economic Borders

Gilberto Vázquez Valle (1958-2021)


Radio Host Built Solidarity Through Encuentro with Latin American Folk Music

Guy Terrill Gambill


Veteran, Once Homeless, Fought for Housing Rights.

Filiberto Nolasco Gomez


Chicano Reporter from LA, Centers Marginalized Workers

Teresa Ortiz


Mexico Ctiy Student Activist 1968, Becomes Latinx Advocate on Lake Street

Drew Edwards


6th Grade Teacher Struggled in School. He Pushes and Turns the Stone in North Minneapolis

Alfreda Daniels


Liberian American Organizes Across Communities and Continents

Ruth Voights


Collaborating to Center Native American Women

Roya Damsaz


From Iranian Revolution to Grassroots Movements in North Minneapolis.

Katrina Knutson


Urban Queer Artist Fights Police Brutality & Advances Intersectional Liberation

Julius Lee (1931-2022)


Tuskegee Graduate Migrated from Alabama to Escape Jim Crow

Phillipe Cunningham


Minneapolis City Council Member Draws on Experiences of Marginalization as a Black Trans Man to Reimagine Public Safety

Philli Irvin (Steven Johnson)


How He Got to Now: The Creative Influences of a North Minneapolis Community Artist

Robin Wonsley


Radical Transformation of an Organizer from Chicago's Southside

David Lawrence Grant


Boyhood at Howard University, with Stars like Toni Morrison, Learned to Write Things That Matter

Margo Hurrle


Advocate for MPS Students, on Policies to End Child Homelessness

Chris Juhn


Social Movement Photographer and ABLE Press Founder

Irna Landrum


Black Queer Lefty From New Orleans Reclaims Nature, God and Politics

Bruce Nestor


From Immigrant Meat Packers to RNC and Standing Rock: The People's Lawyer

Minneapolis Uprising


Testimony and Timeline, May 25th -July 9, 2020

Judy Cooper Lyle


From North Dakota Farmer's Union to Urban Spectrum Theatre -- Committed to Community.

Sandy Hernandez


Growing Up Undocumented in Minneapolis

Charmaine Bell


Educator & Family Advocate Uses Multiple Consciousnesses to Envision Structural Change

Susana De Leon


From Torreón to Minneapolis: Immigration Attorney and Kalpulli Ketzal Coatlicue Dancer

Anna K. Binkovitz


Poet and MeToo Advocate, on the Politics of Consent.

Ahmed Anzaldua


Choral Director of BorderCrossSINGS Revolutionizes Classical and Folk Music

Kathleen Farber


Union/DFL Activist Remembers Lake Street in the '60s

Louise Sundin


Minneapolis Teachers' Union Organizer, on 50 years of Labor Leadership

Henry Jimenez


Son of Undocumented Immigrants with Las Vegas Roots, Advocates for Latinx Minnesota

John Samuel Wright


4th Generation Minnesotan Recalls 150 years of Resistance to Jim Crow North

Artika Tyner


Law Professor, Community Justice Advocate, and Children's Author/Publisher with a Pan-African Lens

Roy Guzmán


Celebrated Queer Honduran Poet Puts Down Roots in Minneapolis

Kenneth Holt 


For This Educator Black Lives Matter Is Not a Movement; It’s His Life

Nick Shillingford


Listen to Nurses, Build Coalitions, Create Socialist Alternatives to Mainstream News

Raymond Dehn


Youthful Addiction & Incarceration Shape Perspective on Legislating

Patrick Scully


Patrick's Cabaret Founder Lives Authentic Artist Life While Elevating Minneapolis Art Scene

Brittany Lewis


Action Researcher Harvests Community Wisdom to Affect Public Policy and Heal Herself

Roxxanne O’Brien


Northside Environmental Justice Activist Speaks Truth to Power.

August Nimtz


From Jim Crow New Orleans to Professor in Mpls: The Making of a Black Communist

David Tilsen


Minneapolis Activist Continues Generations of Progressive Leadership

Aiden Reed


Gay Adopted Teen, Seeks Space to Be Unique

Jimmy Patiño Jr.


Scholar Activist uses Insider/Outsider Strategy to Build Chicano & Latino Studies

Roya Taylor


Indigenous Radio Host and Actor Begins Her Third Act

Ronald Judy


Rich Complexity of the Historic, South Minneapolis Black Community