Where We’ve Been, Where We’re Going
2018
September 28
Pratt Street, Hartford
Barnes & Noble Local Authors book fair
September 21
Real Art Ways
Bisbee ‘17: Film and discussion
September 14
Faith Congregational Church
Consult on Talcott St. Church anniversary
August 1
Grating the Nutmeg Podcast
July 23
Shoeleather Walking Tour
Front St./State House Square
July 16
District 1199
Book launch: My Open Heart Nursing Home Worker stories
June 29
Connecticut Explored
African American Baseball in CT
June 26
Ancient Burying Ground
Workshop for Guide trainees
May 27
Connecticut Historical Society
WWI Exhibit: Pacifist Ulysses DeRosa
May 9
Sea Tea Comedy Theater
Improv riffs on Wicked Hartford
April 28
4Cs Membership Conference, Mystic
Wicked Hartford: Lessons for Our Students
April 14
Northeast Regional Social Studies Conference
New Shoeleather Walking Tour
March 23
New England Archivists Conference, New Haven
Community Archives: An Organizing Resource
March 18
Cinestudio, Trinity College
Irish Documentary Film: No Stone Unturned
March 2
Barnes & Noble, UConn Hartford
Local Authors Day
February 22
Harriet Beecher Stowe Center
Wicked Hartford talk
January 23
Natl Organization of Legal Services Workers/UAW, Las Vegas
How to Use History to Build Your Union
January 20
Intl Association of Machinists, State Council Convention
“CT Labor History in 20 Pictures”
January 3
Hartford Courant
‘Wicked Hartford Shows a Darker Side of City”
2017
December 31
Sport and Medical Sciences Academy
6th Annual Roberto Clemente Life Celebration
December 7
Barnes & Noble UConn Bookstore
Wicked Hartford book talk
November 12
Connecticut Explored
Grating the Nutmeg podcast: Wicked Hartford
November 9
Hartford History Center
October 28
New Shoeleather Walking Tour: Union Place
October 26
Connecticut Explored magazine
October 8
District 1199/SEIU
Book Launch: Wicked Hartford
September 26
WFSB Channel 3 Better Connecticut
Shoeleather History Walking Tour
September 14
NEXT from WNPR
Interpreting Sam Colt (starts at 33:45)
September 6
Colin McEnroe Show WNPR
September 4
Bread & Roses Festival, Lawrence MA
Honoring WWI Anti-War Heroes
August 21
CT Mirror
Are We Heading for a New Civil War?
June 29
Ancient Burying Ground, Hartford
Tour Worksop for Middle-School Summer Guides
July 11
Charter Oak Walking Tour
With District 1199 Summer School Writing Class
June 29
Center Church Douglass Court
Sheff Movement’s Frederick Douglass July 4th
June 27
Grating the Nutmeg Podcast
The Great Hartford Brewers’ Strike 1902
June 1
Connecticut Explored
Hartford’s Union Brew: Beer Makers’ Strike, 1902
May 30
Charter Oak Shoeleather Walking Tour
May 18
First Church, Hartford
Frederick Douglass Celebration
Lessons of Resistance
May 17
Hartford Courant
May 12
CT Mirror
Lessons of the Abolitionists for Today
April 20
Connecticut State Library
Remembering the Anti- Warriors of WWI
April 2
Downingtown, PA Friends Meeting
Seeking Truth: New Lessons from Old Stories
March 25
Capital Community College
History Day judge
March 18
WRL Training for Trainers
The intersection of nonviolence and the labor movement
March 13
Cinestudio, Irish Northern Aid
Introduction to Bobby Sands: 66 Days
February 25
People’s World Black History Celebration
Frederick Douglass in Hartford
February 14
Trinity College
Why Workers Needed to Build the IWW
January 24
CT Mirror
How Should We Remember World War I ?
January 21
LAWCHA On Line
Is SOLIDARITY possible? Cops are workers too.
2016
December 11
UAW Region 9a
Colt Strike at 30: A Commemoration of Courage
December 8
Trinity College
What we learned from the Colt Strike 1986-1990
December 1Portside.org
Telling Local People’s History: Interview with Steve Thornton
October 28
CT Mirror
Politics 2016: The Unthinkable Can Happen Here
October 12
September 5
CT Mirror.org
Discovered: America’s Working Class!
August 20
Children of the Orignal Wobblies
August 10
CT Mirror.org
Gatling Gun: First Weapon of Mass Destruction
August 9
Stewards Update
August 2
flip a table WordPress.com
and
Industrial Worker Issue #1778, Summer, 2016
Pierce Wetter, Original CT Wobbly
July 28
CT Mirror.org
With Black Lives at Stake, Words Matter
July 14
June 4
Connecticut History.org
Something to Show for Our Work- CT in the Depression
May 30
CT Mirror.org
May 6
Connecticut History.org
May 4
Bridgeport History Center
Theater for the 99% in Bridgeport
May 1
April 12
Connecticut History.org
Speaking Under an Open Sky: Frederick Douglass in Hartford
March 28
CT Mirror op-ed
Could Connecticut be wooed by a fascist candidate?
March 26
History Camp
Steam Punk History: Low Tech Storytelling in the Digital Age
March 22
Old State House
Emmeline Pankhurst speaks to Hartford
March 8
Oakroot News
Review of A Shoeleather History of the Wobblies
March 6
Steward Update /The Worker Institute
Member Apathy? There’s No Such Thing!
March 4
Bridgeport History Center
Bridgeport Sparks a “March to Rebuild America”
January 18
Connecticut History.org
Boot Blacks and the Struggle to Survive in Hartford
January 18
YouTube
Video: Martin Luther King at Local 1199
January 20
CT Mirror op ed
February 12
CT Mirror op-ed
Police Surveillance Nothing New in Connecticut
February 8
Counter Currents
Book Review: The People Make the Peace
February 5
CSEA Council 400
The Wobblies in Connecticut
2015
January 3
Havana Times
Yanqui or Yankee? Reconciliation with Cuba
January 7
Peoples World
High Points and Low Points…Connecticut & Cuba
January 22
Ellington CT Historical Society
Labor History is Family History/Wobblies
January 29, 30 & February 1
Moral Monday CT
Nonviolent Direct Action Trainings
January 31
Celebration for Oscar Lopez Rivera
“Clothesline History,” Hartford Puerto Rican activism
ConnecticutHistory.org
February 13
ConnecticutHistory.org
The Language of the Unheard: 60’s Urban Rebellions
February 18
Middlesex Community College
Lessons from the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
February 24
UMass Amherst
The Wobblies
March 11
Connecticuthistory.org
April 11
Shoeleather Walking Tour for UConn students
April 16
ConnecticutHistory.org
Swinging for the Fences: CT Black Baseball Greats
April 17
ConnecticutHistory.org
May 1
Industrial Worker
Carl Sandburg, The Workers’ Poet
May 1
Z Magazine
Review of A Shoeleather History of the Wobblies
May 1
Black Rock Library, Bridgeport
The Wobblies in Bridgeport
May 1
TeleSUR TV / English
Low Wage Workers Shake the Ground on May Day
May 3
Connecticut History.org
Students Teach Elders About 1st Amendment
May 4
Connecticut History.org
May 6
TeleSUR English
TV interview on May Day, Eight-hour day, Fight for $15
May 29
CounterPunch Magazine
Review of A Shoeleather History of the Wobblies
May 30
Shoeleather Walking Tour (Charter Oak)
June 26
Great Labor Arts Exchange, Washington DC
Using Our History as an Organizing Tool
June 29
CT Alliance of Retired Americans
A Shoeleather History of the Wobblies
July 1
HartBeat Ensemble interns
Shoeleather Labor Walking Tour
July 4
CT Mirror op ed
Origins of Our Independence Similar to Today’s Conditions
July 7
ConnecticutHistory.org
The Black Panther Party in CT: Community Survival Programs
September 3
Lego international team
Shoeleather Walking Tour
September 7
Bread & Roses Heritage Festival, Lawrence MA
In the footsteps of a Wobbly legend
September 9
CT Mirror op ed
September 18
Global History from Below, People’s Poetry & People’s History
September 18
ConnecticutHistory.org
The Rise of the Black Panther Party in Connecticut
October 20
Irish History Roundtable
How Hartford’s Irish Immigrants Overcame Prejudice
October 22
New Haven Federation of Teachers Retirees Group
The Wobblies in Connecticut
October 28
AFSCME Retirees
The Wobblies in Connecticut
October 29
Trinity College Globalization class
Hartford’s Hidden History spots
November 13
CT Mirror op ed
Emmeline Pankhurst in Hartford
November 28
CT Mirror op ed
Connecticut’s Immigrant ‘Crisis’ Not Its First
December 7
Yale Jobs Crisis Campaign
Nonviolent direct action training
December 8
Source Radio Network/Sports Tuesday
Interview: Black Baseball in Connecticut
December 14
ConnecticutHistoryorg
The Teenager Who Saved the Amistad Captives
December 31
CT Mirror op ed
Puerto Rico’s Crisis, Connecticut’s Problem
December 31
Sport and Medical Sciences Academy
Fourth annual Roberto Clemente Life Celebration
2014
January 4
Book signing
New Haven People’s Center
February 11
Judge for Renzulli School National History Day projects
March 4
Connecticut History.org
Hartford’s City Mother, Josephine Bennett
March 8
Regional judge for National History Day
March 17
Connecticut History.org
Union Brew
March 25
Connecticut History .org
Women of the Prison Brigade
March 29
One Nation Under Surveillance civil liberties conference, CCSU
Wobblies fight for free speech
April 5
Lawrence, MA History Center: The New Immigration Symposium
Immigrants and Union Building
April 10
Peoples World.org
Review: Shoeleather History Brings Rambunctious New England Wobblies to Life
April 21
New Haven Coalition for People
Organizing : 10 Lessons
April 26
Statewide judge for National History Day at CCSU
April 27
New Haven Labor History Association
Augusta Troup Award
April 28
CT Mirror Op Ed
and
Workers Memorial ceremony at State Capitol
Why Workers Memorial Day is so Important
May 1
Connecticut History Review
A Shoeleather History of the Wobblies
June 5-7
How Class Works 2014 Conference: SUNY Stony Brook
Beating the Company Town
June 17
Irish Roundtable, New Haven
Irish Americans in the CT labor movement
June 19
CT Mirror Op Ed
Mark Twain– Nation Building in Camelot
July 16
CT Mirror Op Ed
Honoring Colt is a Misplaced Effort
July 26
Charter Oak Cultural Center
Shoeleather Walking Tour
July 28
World Fellowship Center, Albany New Hampshire
The Wobblies and the Clamshell Alliance: Movement Building
July 31
Connecticut History.org
Rising Tide: Steamboat Workers on the Connecticut River
August 11
Hartford Business Journal Op Ed
Would Sam Colt be Considered a Good Businessman Today?
August 20
CT Mirror Op Ed
There are Nonviolent Ways to Defend Against Racism
August 21
Cafe Libri: Reviewing Books and More
“The sort of history that will not be taught in schools.”
September 1
CT Mirror Op Ed
Labor Day: A Holiday Created for Us
Windham Textile Museum
IWW 1912 Strikes in Willimantic
Industrial Worker
Book Review: New Forms of Worker Organization
September 13
Fight for Fifteen & a Union
Nonviolence /CD training for 9/14
September 22
Walking Tour for UConn Urban Semester class
September 25
Speak at Trinity college class
Conflicts and Cultures in American Society: 1910s
November 1
Association for the Study of Connecticut History (ASCH)
Conference on Work– Factory Women: Unions and Liberation
November 3
Connecticut History.org
Connecticut’s Jim Crow Law
November 11
CT Mirror Op Ed
Bonus Veterans: An Army Without Guns
November 12
Northwestern CT Community College
Plying an Honest Trade: Winsted’s Factory Women
November 13
Dodd Center, UConn
Social Justice & Community Organizing as a Career
November 15
Connecticut History.org
“Negroes Who Stand Up and Fight Back”: Paul Robeson
November 19
Seabury Advanced Learning Program
A Virtual Shoeleather History Tour
November 24
Beat of the Street (BOTS) Creative Learning Center
Community Organizing II
December 5
BOTS class
Hartford History of Nonviolent Direct Action
December 19
CT Mirror Op Ed
From Revenge to Reconciliation with Cuba
December 31
Third annual Life Celebration of Roberto Clemente
2013
April 24
Annual meeting of the Greater New Haven Labor History Association
How We Won: The labor/community fight to save Waterbury Hospital
June 15
Connecticut History.org, website of CT Humanities
Hartford’s Sex Trade: Prostitutes and Politics
July 20
Southern CT State University
Community Organizing 101
July 20
Connecticut History.org
How the Wobblies Won Free Speech
July/August
Industrial Worker, newspaper of the IWW
When History Gets It Wrong: Reclaiming Our Victories
August 2
New England Historical Society
The Newsies Strike Back
August 5
ConnecticutHistory.org
The Sand Hogs at Bulkeley Bridge
August 9
Hiroshima Day Commemoration
Friends Meeting House, West Hartford
Torture, Terror & WMDs — in Connecticut
September 1
Industrial Worker
Ben Legere: Long Distance Runner on the Left
September 2
Bread and Roses Heritage Festival, Lawrence , MA
Massachusetts Wobbly Ben Legere: Long Distance Runner on the Left
October 1
Z Magazine
Hospital Workers Beat Private Equity Takeover
October 16
Book Launch at District 1199
November 6
Greater Hartford Central Labor Council
Labor Honor Roll
Hartford Labor Council write-up
November 10
Connecticut History.org
A Feeling of Solidarity: Unions and Women’s Suffrage
Southern CT State University
Organizing 101: Waterbury Hospital Fight
November 28
December 1
Industrial Worker, December, 2013
Nonviolent Direct Action and the Early IWW
The Shoeleather History Project
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