October, 2017 was the opening of the Battle of Homestead art exhibit: “Working Class Images”. The artists painted and photographed the essence of the Pittsburgh steel working families, neighborhoods and religious connections. This video captures the Pittsburgh working men who labored in the Pittsburgh area steel mills. For more details on the artists: https://battleofhomestead.org/working-class-images-an-art-exhibit/
Presentation by author Trilby Busch. "Darkness Visible: A Novel of the 1892 Homestead Strike.", recreates the experiences of the workers and townspeople who witnessed the strike and battle firsthand. Descendants of members of the strike committee will also share their family stories.
The 2018 PA Labor Historical Society Conference was held September 22, 2018 at Community College of Allegheny College -Pittsburgh Campus. This year’s program was entitled ‘Vietnam: A Working Class War’ and featured panel discussions and presentations regarding Vietnam War activism and related topics. The goal of this program was to provide an opportunity for the present generation of young people, students, elders, and members of the larger Pittsburgh community to learn from and dialogue with those whose lives and politics were profoundly impacted by the Vietnam War.
The Tree of Life Massacre of October 2018 has cast an indelible stain on the history of Pittsburgh. We mark its first anniversary with a discussion by historians and activists reviewing both our country's response to race-bating, hate-mongering, and systematic discrimination. Joe White, Carl Redwood and Steffi Domike lead the panel discussion.
The Battle of Homestead Foundation sponsored the Betty Davis 75th Birthday Bash at the AMC Waterfront Theater on July 26, 2019. The documentary "Betty - They Say I'm Different" was shown followed by a birthday celebration at the Waterfront Sing Sing/Rock Bottom restaurant.
The Battle of Homestead Foundation labor supporters gathered in Natrona Heights, Brackenridge and Arnold Cemetery, Pennsylvania, to remember the one hundred year anniversary of the death of labor activists, Fannie Sellins and Joe Strazeleski, who were brutally murdered by the Coal and Iron Police.
Presented by Dr. Sarah Papazoglakis, a privacy and trust product strategist at Facebook Reality Labs. The 2021 Bernard Kleiman Lecture co-sponosred with United Steelworkers examines whether Carnegie’s fabled philanthropy was at its core a planned public relations effort to soften his legacy as a manipulative financier and ruthless suppressor of unions.
"The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America” presented by Dr. Gabriel Winant, Professor of History at University of Chicago. Co-sponsored with White Whale Bookstore, the new book from Harvard University Press ventures inside Pittsburgh neighborhoods and talks with working-class Pittsburghers to show how America’s cities are weathering new workforce realities and shaping the U.S. economy of tomorrow.
The Battle of Homestead Foundation is pleased to be a sponsor of The Battle of Blair Mountain Centennial, one of the most important labor history commemorations happening in the U.S. this year.The
5-day Battle of Blair Mountain in August, 1921, was the largest armed conflict on American soil other than the Civil War, as thousands of West Virginia coal mining families joined the United Mine Workers of America to rise up against a violent syndicate of rapacious mine owners.
From Sept. 2-9, 2021, the Battle of Blair Mountain Centennial will be celebrated across West Virginia with scores of public events including films, concerts, re-enactments, art and museum exhibits, symposiums, storytelling, faily activities, walking tours, the annual UMWA Labor Day Rally and the Coalfields Heritage Festival.
The Battle of Homestead Foundation presents a free online panel discussion of the documentary film “9to5: The Story of a Movement” — featuring live commentary by 9to5 founders Karen Nussbaum, Ellen Cassedy, Kim Cook discussing the emergence of the 9to5 collective and its nationwide organizing of women workers in the late 1970s and early ’80s. Thur. Mar. 24, 7:30-9:00 pm. Program details here ... viewers must register here.
ON Apr. 20, 2022, Battle of Homestead Foundation presents a free Zoom panel discussion of the new book The Labor Board Crew: Remaking Worker-Employer Relations from Pearl Harbor to the Reagan Era by Ronald W. Schatz with commentary by Dr. Schatz, labor historian Jack Metzgar and union organizer John Lepley. The unlikely crew of technocrats and utopian reformers (including Clark Kerr, John Dunlop, Jean McKelvey, Marvin Miller) came together in 1942 by order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt as the National War Labor Board, charged with mediating labor disputes that might threaten U.S. wartime production. After the war, the board's "graduates" would go on to play important roles in shaping America's economy and society for the next 50 years, handling thousands of grievances and strikes and impacting major legal decisions in civil rights, unions, student protests, school integration, professional sports and the end of the Cold War. This Battle of Homestead Foundation program explores the "labor board crew's" unique legacy and its application for labor organizers and mediators today. REGISTER HERE at Eventbrite for your Zoom link.
ON May 19, 2022, the Battle of Homestead Foundation presents a free Zoom program marking the 100th anniversary of a brutal murder of Herman Martius, an immigrant shopkeeper and political activist in Erie, Pennsylvania ... a murder that came to symbolize the civic and social turmoil besetting American Democracy in the 1920s. Death of a Jewish Radical in Erie, 1922: Echoes from a Century Ago features historians Kipp Dawson and Lou Martin presenting their research on the crime, investigation and community aftermath. Ms. Dawson is a granddaughter of Herman and Beatrice Martius and has integrated her family's unique story with the historical events of the day. Dr. Martin is an associate professor of history at Chatham University specializing in American labor and working-class history. A CENTURY LATER, the murder of Herman Martius remains unsolved. But many of the dangerous political currents in the divided America of his time have resurged in our own. REGISTER HERE at Eventbrite for your Zoom link.
