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

Angela Hooks

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

Tom O’Connell

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

Minneapolis Project. Transformational moments when life takes a turn.

Chicago! What you mean to me. Love, Minneapolis

Lisa Albrecht

Lesbian Feminist Educator Still Learning, To Repair the World

David Lawrence Grant

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

August Nimtz

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

Roya Damsaz

From Iranian Revolution to Grassroots Movements in North Minneapolis.

Brittany Lewis

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

Sherry Quan Lee

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

R. Vincent Moniz Jr.

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

Teresa Ortiz

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

Irna Landrum

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

Jess Sundin

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

Louise Sundin

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

Ronald Judy

Rich Complexity of the Historic, South Minneapolis Black Community

Judy Cooper Lyle

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

Effie Lee

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

Should you Support Black Lives Matter?

Bruce Drewlow

Northern Minnesota to North Minneapolis; the Education of an Educator.
Jason Sole at Hamline University, January 23, 2020

Jason Sole

Formerly Incarcerated Professor Makes Sacred Trouble

Nick Shillingford

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

Valérie Déus

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

Henry Jimenez

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

School Days. Minneapolis Project interviewees in conversation.

Julius Lee (1931-2022)

Tuskegee Graduate Migrated from Alabama to Escape Jim Crow

Sandy Berman

The Making of a Radical Librarian

Tina Burnside

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

Elizabeth Faue

Feminist Labor Historian Returns to North Minneapolis Roots

Margo Hurrle

Advocate for MPS Students, on Policies to End Child Homelessness

Guy Terrill Gambill

Veteran, Once Homeless, Fought for Housing Rights.

Minneapolis and the World Need Less Policing, more Humanity

Roxxanne O’Brien

Northside Environmental Justice Activist Speaks Truth to Power.

Drew Edwards

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

Minerva Munoz

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

Mustafa Diriye

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

Wyn Massey

Minneapolis Labor Activist Recalls 40 Years of Resistance

Rose Brewer

From Tulsa to Minneapolis: Activist Scholar is Rooted in Community

Louis Alemayehu

The Making of A Multicultural Spiritual Elder.

Alfreda Daniels

Liberian American Organizes Across Communities and Continents

April Knutson

Former Leader of MN CP Continues to Build United Fronts

Kathleen Farber

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

Minneapolis Interview Project Explained

What you need to know about using this site

Bruce Nestor

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

Mel Reeves (1957-2022)

Long-Time Organizer Against Police Brutality, Fights the Power

Marcie Rendon

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

Sandy Hernandez

Growing Up Undocumented in Minneapolis

Ahmed Anzaldua

Choral Director of BorderCrossSINGS Revolutionizes Classical and Folk Music

Katrina Knutson

Urban Queer Artist Fights Police Brutality & Advances Intersectional Liberation

Celebrating Kirk Washington Jr. Day

Angela Conley

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

Patrick Scully

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

Chris Juhn

Social Movement Photographer and ABLE Press Founder

Before George Floyd’s Murder: A Testimonial History of Police Brutality and Resistance in Minneapolis (Work in Progress)

Elizabeth Tannen

NYC Poet Finds Community in Minneapolis Police Abolition Movement.

Anna K. Binkovitz

Poet and MeToo Advocate, on the Politics of Consent.

Love is a lot, but it’s not all there is.

Artika Tyner

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

Susana De Leon

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

Roya Taylor

Indigenous Radio Host and Actor Begins Her Third Act

Nelsie Yang

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

Robin Wonsley

Radical Transformation of an Organizer from Chicago's Southside

Acoma Gaither

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

John Samuel Wright

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

Tammy Ortegon

Artist Exposes Minneapolis’ Economic Borders

Philli Irvin (Steven Johnson)

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

Jane Burnett

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

Alice A. Anderson (1932-2017)

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

Hye-Kyong Kim

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

Daniel Alberto Perez

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

Michael McConnell

Married His Husband in 1971, Demands Equality for All.

Jerry Rau

Vietnam Veteran Against War becomes Sidewalk Troubadour

Ruth Voights

Collaborating to Center Native American Women

Ricardo Levins Morales

Puerto Rican Social Justice Artist Organizes to Win

Jimmy Patiño Jr.

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

Gilberto Vázquez Valle (1958-2021)

Radio Host Built Solidarity Through Encuentro with Latin American Folk Music

Charmaine Bell

Educator & Family Advocate Uses Multiple Consciousnesses to Envision Structural Change

Filiberto Nolasco Gomez

Chicano Reporter from LA, Centers Marginalized Workers

Phillipe Cunningham

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

Raymond Dehn

Youthful Addiction & Incarceration Shape Perspective on Legislating

Connie Edberg

Native American Educator Refuses to be Objectified or Typecast

Aiden Reed

Gay Adopted Teen, Seeks Space to Be Unique

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

Kendrick Wronski

Woman Behind the Painted Signs that Teach Anti-Racism

Cops and unions.

Cathy Jones

Postal Worker Fights Police Brutality, Discrimination in the Workplace

Barb Tilsen

Singer, Songwriter, Poet, Mother, Grandmother, Organizer

Adriana Cerrillo

Elevates Immigrant Voices to Change Racist Policies

Minneapolis Uprising

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

David Tilsen

Minneapolis Activist Continues Generations of Progressive Leadership

4th precinct Occupation Built Community in Ways that Can’t be Bulldozed

Veronica Mendez Moore

CTUL Organizer Builds Labor Power with Marginalized Workers