Founded in 1905, the Industrial Workers of the World captured the attention of a generation with its fiery rhetoric, daring tactics, and program of revolutionary industrial unionism. Pledging to replace the narrow craft unionism of the American Federal of Labor with massive industrial unions, the organization grew in numbers and reputation in the years before World War I, demonstrating an ability to organize workers neglected by the AFL, notably immigrant steel and textile workers in the Northeast, miners, timber, and harvest workers in the West.
Save Midtown Rally
139 Fillmore families are fighting displacement. Midtown tenants have been on rent strike since August 2015, protesting the demolition of their homes, rent hikes 102% on average, and draconian new lease that’s streamlined for eviction, abuse and negligence by Mercy California, and City’s failure to deliver on a Board of Supervisors mandated equity ownership.
DSA SF members stood with Midtown tenants to protest the stolen equity of Midtown tenants, gentrification of the Fillmore, and displacement.
