rich 1.0 Action Network https://actionnetwork.org <link href='https://actionnetwork.org/css/style-embed-v3.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' /><script src='https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v6/event/500-years-of-labor-history?format=js&source=widget'></script><div id='can-event-area-500-years-of-labor-history' style='width: 100%'><!-- this div is the target for our HTML insertion --></div> Scontras Center https://actionnetwork.org/groups/scontras-center https://can2-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/events/photos/001/476/238/normal/Screenshot_2023-10-01_at_11.14.32_PM.png Join us for the inaugural Conversations at the Scontras Center event! Conversations is a series of public discussions where organizers, scholars, and workers talk about what they do all day, contemporary topics facing the labor movement, and the history of the labor movement in Maine and across the planet. Of Pirates, Witches, & Workers: 500-Years of Labor History with Kevin Van Meter For 500-years, “the cause of labor is the hope of the world.” We begin in the conflict over the collection of firewood and then circulate through the witch-hunts, pirate utopias and slave resistance, corresponding societies and the communards of Paris, the 8-hour day movement and mine wars, great sit-down strikes and great migrations, wartime strikes and the Treaty of Detroit, neo-liberal responses to worker-student and civil rights movements, and the return of the labor movement today. Our stories reverberate throughout labor history, across the planet, and in our working lives.   Union organizer, labor educator, and author, Kevin Van Meter, Ph.D. is a teaching fellow at the Scontras Center for Labor and Community Education at the University of Southern Maine. Free and open to the public! Talbot Lecture Hall (Luther Bonney Hall, #103) University of Southern Maine-Portland Bedford St, Portland, ME 04101 https://actionnetwork.org/events/500-years-of-labor-history