In this episode we cover a large, inspirational, multi-ethnic labor movement from 1946 that shook the monopoly that sugar companies held over Hawai'i. Workers and organizers learned lessons from other movements, prepared meticulously in advance, and purposefully brought in an element of fun to keep morale high and sustain themselves for a strike that lasted almost three months! The strike cost plantations BIG TIME and turned Hawai'i into an example of successful union organizing that is still the case today!
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