Click on a name below to be taken to a page with their photo, transcript, and a video excerpt.
Don Bouzek
Don Bouzek, a co-founder of the Alberta Labour History Institute, has created live theatre productions and digital media works on a variety of social issues and on behalf of various progressive organizations in Ontario, Alberta, and Birmingham, UK.
Leo Panitch
Political scientist Leo Panitch analyzes the assault on trade union freedoms in Canada by governments since World War II and workers’ responses.
Mikhail Bjorge
Dr. Mikhail Bjorge discusses the causes and outcomes of the general strikes in Alberta in 1919 in local, national, and international contexts.
Kate Jacobson
Kate Jacobson is an internal organizer for the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees (AUPE) who describes her earlier oppressive working conditions in non-union jobs and her years as a social and environmental militant.