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Continuing off of the momentum of the People’s Power Summit and our June and July meetings, we’ll meet again to plan our next steps for the MLK Freedom School Fall 2021 events.
Tentative Schedule (More specifics forthcoming and titles subject to change. Locations will be in Manitowoc and they will be announced once booked. All events on Thursday evenings from 6-8 P.M.):
9/9/21: All Labor Has Dignity! No Borders in the Workers’ Struggle! (Fight for Union, Immigrant and and workers’ rights)
10/14/21: Strike a Woman! Strike a Rock! – Women in the Civil and Human Rights Movement(s)
11/11/21: People’s Needs Not War!
         - Coretta Scott King
Steven Calco, research archivist at Cornell University Libraryâs renowned Kheel Center at the Industrial Labor Relations School, recently highlighted Dr. Martin Luther King, Jrâs critical role championing the labor movement as part of his campaign for racial and social injustice. (See Steven Calco: All Labor Has Dignityâ Ithaca Times, Feb. 20, 2021). Less than one year after Dr. Kingâs tragic assassination on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee, his wife Coretta Scott King rallied support for striking hospital workers, some recently fired from their low-paid and backbreaking jobs in hospitals in Charleston, South Carolina.Â
Coretta Scott King described why hospital workers should unionize, as they perform some of the hardest, most difficult work. âOne thing that hospital workers, Black, white or brown, have in common all over the country is that they are poor, they are terribly exploited,