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Abolition Writing: A People’s World workshop on writing to end mass incarceration

September 13, 2021 By People’s World

September 17, 2021 - 7pm ET

Radical perspectives on prison abolition: Town Hall set for June 12

June 9, 2021 By Special to People’s World

Save the date: June 12 at 3pm. Registration link in the article.

Henry David Thoreau: Bright glows the pond

March 24, 2016 By Len Yannielli

Like all giants of the past, Henry David Thoreau writes in a different period of time but speaks to us today.

Today in labor history: 19th amendment, securing right to vote for women, ratified

August 18, 2014 By Combined Sources

America's woman suffrage movement was founded in the mid 19th century by women who had become politically active through their work in the abolitionist and temperance movements.

Today in women’s history: Suffragist Matilda Joslyn Gage dies

March 18, 2014 By Special to People’s World

She was raised in a household dedicated to ending slavery. Her father was a nationally known abolitionist, and the Joslyn home was a station on the Underground Railway. Her life's work became the struggle for the...