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#PowerFromThePast - IRLE 80th Anniversary Edition

📸 1960 – This illustration from the IRLE report “Merit Employment” (1960) highlights persistent employment segregation in an increasingly diverse and integrated society

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October 22, 2026 at 8:02 PM
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#PowerFromThePast - IRLE 80th Anniversary Edition

📸 1987 – Demonstrators protest the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 in Los Angeles- credit: @uclalibrary.bsky.social

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October 15, 2026 at 8:47 PM
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#PowerFromThePast - 80th anniversary edition

📸 1946 – Paul Dodd was the founding director of the IRLE, which opened in 1946 as the “UCLA Institute for Industrial Relations.”

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October 8, 2026 at 7:34 PM
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Spice up your picket line with #PowerFromThePast!

Justice for Janitors staged dramatic public displays to highlight the moral weight of their cause. Check out Mop Man as he vanquishes the evil contractor. Hilarious.

But the gender politics were not so great. Women were key leaders of the union
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#PowerFromThePast "Mop Man" defends a worker during a street theater performance at a Justice for Janitors demonstration in 1992.

📸 Power from the Past brings you a snapshot of labor history each week to inspire organizing in the present and future.

Learn more at memorywork.irle.ucla.edu
A black and white photograph shows a street theater performance outside an office building in 1992. A man in a superhero costume defends a woman janitorial worker from a boss by prodding him with a mop.
April 3, 2026 at 11:10 PM
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#PowerFromThePast - Did you know Los Angeles hosted the FIFA World Cup in 1994? This video shed light on the working class reality underpinning the glamor and glory of the tournament.

Watch here: vimeo.com/198767134?fl...

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On Any Day: A Visit to Four LA Neighborhoods (1995)
The Tourism Industry Development Council (TIDC, later known as the LA Alliance for a New Economy, LAANE) takes visiting journalists on a tour of Los Angeles working class neighborhoods.
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July 9, 2026 at 9:10 PM
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#PowerFromThePast Organized by the Los Angeles Coalition to End Hunger and Homelessness in 1977, members gather in defense of welfare rights at the “Hold the Line Caravan.”

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Organized by the Los Angeles Coalition to End Hunger and Homelessness in 1977, members gather in defense of welfare rights at the “Hold the Line Caravan.” In this photo, the director, Bob Erlenbusch, delivers a speech calling to protect access to public assistance for those in need against a proposal aiming to cut benefits and restrict eligibility.
May 21, 2026 at 4:17 PM
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#PowerFromThePast Labor leaders, community members and workers march in Downtown Los Angeles in support of hotel workers at the New Otani in 1997.

Learn about the New Otani campaign and view more labor history on the Memory Work website: memorywork.irle.ucla.edu
May 7, 2026 at 5:55 PM
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Are you ready for May Day tomorrow? This week's #PowerFromThePast brings you a May Day memory from Los Angeles.

Learn more about May Day and how we're honoring the date at the IRLE here: irle.ucla.edu/2025/04/28/m...
May Day marchers fill the streets in Los Angeles holding pro-immigration and labor signs in this colored photo dated between 1990 and 2005
April 30, 2026 at 10:45 PM
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#PowerFromThePast Marchers raise a banner during a rally against Prop 187, 1994

Prop 187, an extreme anti-immigrant measure, ignited a wave of organizing and solidarity in Los Angeles in the 90s

📸 PFTP brings you a weekly snapshot of labor history
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Marchers raise a banner during a rally against Prop 187, 1994
April 16, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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#PowerFromThePast Dolores Huerta speaks at a labor movement teach in, 1997

📸 Power from the Past brings you a snapshot of labor history each week to inspire organizing in the present and future

Today, we celebrates Huerta on the eve of her 96th birthday 🎂

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Dolores Huerta stands on a stage behind a podium, speaking at a "teach in on a new labor movement" at UCLA in 1997
April 9, 2026 at 7:12 PM
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#PowerFromThePast "Mop Man" defends a worker during a street theater performance at a Justice for Janitors demonstration in 1992.

📸 Power from the Past brings you a snapshot of labor history each week to inspire organizing in the present and future.

Learn more at memorywork.irle.ucla.edu
A black and white photograph shows a street theater performance outside an office building in 1992. A man in a superhero costume defends a woman janitorial worker from a boss by prodding him with a mop.
April 2, 2026 at 7:58 PM