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The deportation crusade began in Seattle late in 1917. The country was at war, an unpopular war, and there was an unsettled…
Cal Winslow
Cal Winslow is a retired Fellow in Environmental History at the University of California, Berkeley and is Director of the Mendocino Institute. He was trained as an historian at Antioch College and Warwick University where he studied under the direction of the late Edward Thompson. He is a co-author of the re-released Albion's Fatal Tree (Verso 2011). In the 1970s he worked as a warehouseman, truck driver and journalist, a participant in and observer of the rank-and-file workers’ rebellion of the decade. He is an editor of Rebel Rank and File, Labor Militancy and Revolt from below During the Long 1970s (Verso, 2010). He taught labor studies at the Center for Worker Education, City College of New York and was a visiting Senior Lecturer at the Northern College for Residential Adult Working Class Education in South Yorkshire. His is author of many books, including E.P. Thompson and the Making of the New Left (Monthly Review 2014). His most recent is Radical Seattle, the General Strike of 1919 (Monthly Review, 2019). He lives with his family on the Mendocino Coast of Northern California. He and his wife, Faith Simon, a Family Nurse Practitioner specializing in pediatrics, are founding members of Mendocino Parents for Peace and are associated with the Bay Area gathering Retort.
“These negotiations were like fighting a battle,” says Adrianna Webb, a medical social worker at Panorama City in Los Angeles and a…
2400 striking behavioral health care workers in Southern California have taken to the streets – literally. On February 8, workers sat down…
The behavioral healthcare workers in Kaiser Permanente’s vast empire of hospitals, clinics medical offices, and homecare settings are on strike today in…
Rise like Lions after slumber– In unvanquishable number– Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you–…
The Fort Bragg, California coastal headlands comprise 425 acres of the much- celebrated Mendocino Coast. If you walk the town’s coastal trail…
It is still possible to stand in a redwood sorel garden, a garden that carpets a remaining grove of the world’s tallest…
Sabrina Chaumette is an Oakland, CA resident and a licensedclinical social worker and a member of the National Union ofHealthcare Workers (NUHW)…
Two thousand mental health clinicians have won; Kaiser Permanente has lost. The 10- week strike has ended in near total victory for…
Voices from the Picket LinesThe strike of 2000 Kaiser Permanente mental health care providers isnow in its seventh week. On Saturday, votes…