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Omaha Steve

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Sat Jun 6, 2015, 09:43 PM Jun 2015

6-6-15 On this day in Labor History the year was 1988 in 2:00


http://laborhistoryin2.podbean.com/e/june-6-fighting-aparthied/




June 6, 2015
On this day in Labor History the year was 1988. That was the day that between two and three million black workers went on strike in South Africa. The Congress of South African Trade Unions had called for three days of “national peaceful protest.”

2:00 minute audio at link.


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6-6-15 On this day in Labor History the year was 1988 in 2:00 (Original Post) Omaha Steve Jun 2015 OP
K&R..... daleanime Jun 2015 #1
I got to see Mandela speak in Oakland a few years after that. Starry Messenger Jun 2015 #2

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