Posts Tagged ‘Labor’

A Timeline of Resistance

Learn about how the global economic crisis lead to resistance the spread throughout the globe.



Why Can’t We Share? The Occupy Wall Street Movement Grows

When people in New York City held a protest on Wall Street in September, they decided to stay there. The protesters wanted to let people know that just one percent of people in the country have far too much wealth and power over the lives of everybody else.



Raising the Bar: kids say no cheap labor for chocolate

While few can resist a Hershey chocolate bar, the bitter truth is that Hershey takes advantage of foreign student workers and probably uses kids to harvest its cocoa. Read this story to learn more and find out what youth are doing about it.



Who Am I?

Can you name this early 20th-century labor activist?



Kids Celebrate May Day

This year, tens of thousands of people marched in May Day rallies across the United States to demand immigrants’ and workers’ rights. IndyKids asked these kids why they joined a rally in their city.



Europe in the Streets

Students and workers across Europe are protesting large cuts to spending on education, as well as decreases in pensions and salaries.



France takes to the streets

3.5 million people have taken part in massive strikes to protest government plans to increase the early retirement age from 60 to 62, and full retirement from 65 to 67.



Jobless Youth

The unemployment rate for youth ages 16 to 24 went up to 19.1 percent in July, 2010.



Profit Above Safety

A coal mine explosion in West Virgina kills 29 miners and leaves many wondering about the safety of mining.



Meeting in Pittsburgh

A group of 20 of the world’s largest economies (the G-20) is meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in September.