Register now for the 2021 PNLHA Labor History Conference!
A Pacific Northwest Tradition for Over 50 Years Register here: Registration Form for 2021 PNLHA Conference - Google Forms You will receive links to the conference, descriptions of all the events, and biographies of the presenters. SCHEDULE
Friday, June 25 5:00 PM (Pacific Time) Welcome and Introduction: Tom Lux, PNLHA President; Jo Blake, King County C.L.U.W. President 5:15 – 6:00 PM (PT) Keynote: Elise Bryant, We Did Not Come This Far To Turn Back Now 6:00 – 7:00 PM (PT) Video and Songs: Solidarity Notes Labour Choir 7:00 PM and on (PT) Zoom Social Saturday, June 26 9:30 AM (PT) Welcome and Introduction: Tom Lux, PNLHA President; April Sims, Secretary-Treasurer, WSLC 9:40 – 10:30 AM (PT) Keynote: Bill Fletcher Jr., The Rattle from the Rightwing Populist Snake: Trump, Jan. 6, and the Implications for Organized Labor 10:30 – 11:15 AM (PT) Panel Discussion: Essential Voices of Frontline Workers Jane Hopkins, SEIU 1199NW; Martha Elana Sonato, PCUN; UFCW Local 555; UNITE-HERE Local 8; Hospital Employees Union, BC; Conor Casey (mod.) 11:15 – 11:30 AM (PT) PNLHA Annual Awards: Labor History Person of the Year & Labor History Maker of the Year 11:30 – Noon (PT) - BREAK Noon – 1:00 PM (PT) Workshops/Panels/Videos: 1) Working in the Woods: Archives, Labour, and Forestry in British Columbia Henry John, Dave Lang, Claire Williams 2) Love & Solidarity: James Lawson and Nonviolence in the Search for Workers’ Rights Michael Honey 3) Educating Young Workers to Build Activism Ephraim Weisstein 4) A Century of Radical Labor History in the Pacific Northwest Kim England, Aaron Goings, James Gregory 1:00 – 1:15 PM (PT) - BREAK 1:15 – 2:15 PM (PT) Workshops/Panels/Production 1) Racialized Bodies: South Asian Labour and the Activities of the BC Organization to Fight Racism Anushay Malik, Bailey Garden 2) Striking Switchmen: Railroad Worker Unrest and Unionism in the United States and Canada, 1888 – 1917 Kevin Kipers 3) March of the Innocents TheatreWorks 4) Red, Green and International Rosalinda Guillen, Michael Schulze-Oechtering, Cindy Domingo 2:15 – 2:30 PM (PT) - BREAK 2:30 – 4:00 PM (PT) PNLHA Annual General Membership and Business Meeting |