Tuesday, August 14th , 2012

THE HISTORY OF August 14th, I'm ___________________ .

And I’m__________________. Today in 1893: the “Los Angeles Times” reports (quote), “White men and women who desire to earn a living have for some time been entering quiet protests against vinyardists and packers employing Chinese in preference to whites”.

The protests will not remain quiet in the next few years, as economic depression leads to violent anti-Chinese riots by unemployed white workers across California. The Chinese workers will suffer beatings and shootings, and will be herded to railroad stations and loaded on trains. They will bitterly refer to the violence and expulsion as the driving out.

Tuesday, August 14th , 2012

It’s today’s Action Calendar!

Tonight at 5pm, The Socialist Party of South Central Wisconsin will hold its monthly meeting in the Mendota Room of the Wil-Mar Neighborhood Center, 953 Jenifer Street. Please enter through the Brearly Street door. More info at 231-3015.

Also tonight, "Why the Worldwide Depression? Neoliberalism and the Great Panic of 2008" will be discussed by the History of Political Economy Group. This will be from 6:30 to 8pm at Electric Earth Coffeehouse, 546 West Washington. More info 256-1251.

Volunteers are needed with Canopy Center to help run concession stands at UW football games for all seven home games during the 2012 season. This is a wholesale stand which operates to restock vendors walking through the crowds. They are looking for help with as few or as many games as you are willing to volunteer. For more info, contact Sarah at 729-1130 or visit canopycenter.org.

The School for Workers will host “Internal Organizing”- a course to mobilize union members and build solidarity and involvement in the workplace, on Saturday, September 15th from 8:30 to 4:30pm at the Anderson United Way Center on Atwood Avenue in Madison. This course is co-sponsored by the South Central Labor Federation.  There is a cost for this event, and economic hardship scholarships are available. More details at schoolforworkers@uwex.edu or call 608-262-2112.