{"id":7294,"date":"2026-06-09T06:21:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T13:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=7294"},"modified":"2026-07-17T11:04:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T18:04:14","slug":"minneapolis-1934-general-strike-commemoration","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/event\/minneapolis-1934-general-strike-commemoration\/","title":{"rendered":"Minneapolis 1934 General Strike Commemoration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Live stream from Minneapolis Commemoration Committee at the site of Bloody Friday: 7th Ave. &amp; 3rd St. No. Minneapolis. MN 55401<br \/>\nJuly 19th, 2026, from 2-3pm CST, 12 noon PST<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Remember1934\/\">Live stream facebook link is here. Please click on here at the starting time.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 1934 Minneapolis teamster general strike was an important development not only for the workers of Minneapolis but also for Teamster and union organizing throughout the mid-west.<br \/>\nThe strike despite attacks by police, bosses and the use of the National Guard was successful in defending the union. The Minneapolis Teamster strike and it\u2019s connection today with the Minneapolis mobilizations and mass labor community action against the ICE attacks and murders is very relevant today.<br \/>\nThe connection between the struggles in the 1930\u2019s with general strikes and the fight today against the ICE fascist attacks, union busting, Project 2025 \u00a0and wars abroad including the genocide in Gaza, US war on Lebanon and Iran put the struggle here in a global context and learning from our history is critical.<br \/>\nThis annual commemoration in Minneapolis is important for all workers in the United States and we need to learn the lessons in Minneapolis for today.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7630\" src=\"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/719-Minneapolis-34-Gen-Strike-Commemoration-2026x400-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/719-Minneapolis-34-Gen-Strike-Commemoration-2026x400-1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/719-Minneapolis-34-Gen-Strike-Commemoration-2026x400-1-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Live stream by facebook from Minneapolis Commemoration Committee at the site of Bloody Friday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7300,"template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[4,70],"class_list":["post-7294","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-forum-reading","tribe_events_cat-zoom","cat_forum-reading","cat_zoom"],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/7294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/7294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8066,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/7294\/revisions\/8066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7294"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=7294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}