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Tag Archive: Solidarity
Equal Pay Day: Women Still Paid Less than Men
Today is Equal Pay Day—the date that symbolizes how far into 2011 women must work to earn what men earned in 2010. Nearly 50 years after enactment of the Equal Pay Act, working women in the United States are paid an average of 80 cents for every dollar paid to men. The pay gap is even larger…
Statement from KDP on We Are One movement
The new Chair of the Kansas Democratic Party has issued a statement in support of organized labor and the We Are One movement. It is reprinted here in it’s entirety. Yesterday at rallies across the country, working men and women stood to honor the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s assassination. These events were a…
Wichita We Are One Event Shows Solidarity for Human Rights.
An overfill crowd last night came together to stand in solidarity with the labor movement and recommit themselves to the struggle for human rights and dignity for all peoples. The Wichita Eagle Coverage does a good job of summarizing the event. Wichita-area residents rally for labor, civil rights. A 24-year-old church volunteer who works with Wichita’s homeless…
We Are One!
**UPDATE - The location of this event has changed to Interfaith Ministries at 829 N Market. More details below.** Kansas Legislators, Labor, Civil Rights and Women’s Rights Leaders Stand Together With the People and Proclaim…WE ARE ONE On April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, where he had gone to stand…
Rally to Save the American Dream
This video was filmed and edited by Steve Boyda. Thank you to the hundreds of Kansans who braved the freezing temperatures on Saturday to meet on the steps of the Statehouse in Topeka! By standing together in solidarity with Wisconsin workers you had an opportunity to hear from our the middle class champions here in…