MILWAUKEE HISTORY
Seven people were killed in this Milwaukee neighborhood when Governor Jeremiah Rusk called in the national guard to break a strike for the 8 hour work day.
What is Bay View?
After pressure from the BDS movement, this pop singer did not give the “green light” to performing in Israel.
Who is Lorde?
This co-founder of the Amazon Labor Union was abducted and brutalized by Israeli forces while participating in the July 2025 Gaza Freedom Flotilla.
Who is Chris Smalls?
After being dissolved in 1974, SDS was revived decades later to protest this war.
What is the Iraq War?
In 1973, a U.S.-backed coup in this nation overthrew democratically-elected socialist Salvador Allende.
Milwaukee’s three socialist mayors emerged from this movement centered in the city, named for its emphasis on public infrastructure.
This Levantine dance has come to represent resistance and unity among Palestinians.
What is Dabke?
Members of this radical labor union founded in 1905 are nicknamed “Wobblies”
What is the IWW?
This president’s escalation of the Vietnam War inflamed the anti-war movement on campuses across the nation, leading to a massive expansion of SDS.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
Between 1965 and 1973, the U.S. dropped more tons of bombs on this nation than had been used by the Allies throughout all of World War II.
What is Cambodia?
It is estimated that the construction of Interstate 43 destroyed up to 17,000 homes and 1,000 businesses in this historical Black neighborhood and center of culture.
What is Bronzeville?
In 2018, this city became the first European capital to endorse BDS.
What is Dublin?
This labor leader co-founded the United Farm Workers and helped popularize the chant “si se puede”.
Who is César Chávez?
In the 1960s, SDS was among the many targets of this notorious FBI program of surveillance, infiltration, and disruption of "subversive" organizations.
What is COINTELPRO?
Almost one-third of this westernmost U.S. territory is covered by military bases.
What is Guam?
She was the first woman and the first Black member of Milwaukee’s Common Council, as well as the first Black woman to graduate from the UW Law School.
Who is Vel Phillips?
This right, often cited by Palestinian activists, was first established in international law in a 1948 UN resolution concerning displaced Palestinian refugees.
What is the right of return?
This banjo-playing anti-fascist folk singer popularized the union song “Which Side Are You On?”.
Who is Pete Seeger?
Beginning in 1966, SDS organized nationwide protests against this manufacturer of napalm known to recruit on campuses.
A 1954 U.S.-backed coup in this nation followed intense lobbying by the United Fruit Company, now known as Chiquita.
What is Guatemala?
Between 1967 and 1968, this priest helped lead 200 nights of protest in support of fair housing policy in Milwaukee.
Who is Father James Groppi?
This Palestinian-American scholar and author of Orientalism was surveilled by the FBI for his outspoken activism on Palestine.
Who is Edward Said?
This trade unionist and five-time Socialist Party of America candidate won almost a million votes in the 1920 presidential election while in federal prison on sedition charges for speaking against American participation in World War I.
Who is Eugene V. Debs?
This document, named for a Michigan city, was adopted at the first SDS convention in 1962.
What is the Port Huron Statement?
The Central Intelligence Agency was heavily involved in this nation’s civil war following its independence from Portugal.
What is Angola?