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- Berlin's oldest squatters in town defend threatened community centre
Pensioners take a stand against development of their comunity centre
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Dozen of pensioners took over a community centre in the east Berlin suburb of Pankow last month after the local council said the building they had used as a community centre for 15 years had to make way for real estate development.
- Flint Sit-Down Strike
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Changed the United Automobile Workers from a collection of isolated locals on the fringes of the industry into a major union and led to the unionization of the United States automobile industry.
- The Flint sit-down strike, 1936-1937
Jeremy Brecher
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
210,000 auto workers joined the American Federation of Labor (A.F.L.) to take part in the strike but the A.F.L leadership however wanted no part in a strike, and managed to postpone it again and again. The workers won control over the rate of production, despite a union contract that conceded this authority to management.
- The Great Flint Sit-Down Strike Against G.M. 1936-37
How Industrial Unionism was Won
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1967
A history of the Flint strike (1936-1937).
- Jewish Women Occupy Israeli Consulate in Toronto
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
A group of Jewish-Canadian women occupied the Israeli Consulate in Toronto in protest against the on-going Israeli assault on the people of Gaza.
See a video at http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=ln0zFRg0kRU
- Montrealers lay siege to Israeli Consulate: Second consecutive day of Israeli Consulate blockades in Canada
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Second consecutive day of Israeli Consulate blockades in Canada. Early Thursday, January 8th Montrealers blockaded the Israeli Consulate in Montreal in protest against the on-going Israeli assault on the people of Gaza.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 19, 2015
Utopia
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2015
Utopian visions, be they practical or not, free our imaginations, if only for a little while, from the daily grind of struggle and worry, and allow us to dream about the kind of world we would hope to live in. Such dreams can inspire us and guide us, even if they are not always quite practical. This issue of Other Voices peers into the world of utopian visions, practical or otherwise.
- Remembering Another Occupy
Anniversary of the 1937 Sit-Down Strike Wave
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
- Sit-ins
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A form of direct action that involves one or more persons nonviolently occupying an area for a protest.
- Sitdown strike or occupation guide
A guide to taking sit-down strike action or occupations, in which by suddenly refusing to work gains can be won rapidly
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2006
A strike doesn't have to be long to be effective. Timed and executed right, a strike can be won in minutes. Such strikes are "sitdowns" or "occupations" when everyone just stops work and sits tight, or "mass grievances" when everybody leaves work to go to the boss's office to discuss some matter of importance. This can have many advantages over a conventional strike.
- SNCC
The New Abolitionists
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1965
An account of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
- Strike!
The True History of Mass Insurgence from 1877 to the Present
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
A history-from-below that brings to light strikes as authentic revolutionary movements against the establishments of state, capital, and trade unionism.
- A Troublemaker's Handbook
How to Fight Back Where You Work -- And Win!
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
An organizing manual for workers dealing with both major issues and everyday problems in the workplace.
- Vulnerable Akron: the first great sit-down
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Akron, rubber manufacturing capital of the world. A drab Mid-Western industrial city of 255,000. A city with a hum, a throb, anodor all its own. It made the front pages in February, 1936. A strike had closed the largest tire factory on the globe, which had 14,000 employees.
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