On June 16th, 2026 CPI co-hosted a Juneteenth Kickoff event with the San Diego Black Worker Center, and SDEA. At the event we discussed the ties between slavery and the oppression of workers–Black and non-Black–today.
ICYMI see the presentation given by our Executive Director, Kyra R. Greene, discussing how the fight for emancipation is also a fight for workers’ rights.
Black workers’ fight for emancipation was and is a fight for workers’ rights and for a true multi-racial democracy. Today democracy and the rights of all workers are under renewed and vicious attack.
If we want to protect ourselves and our neighbors we have to organize. There are many lessons we can take from our ancestors who fought the evils of slavery and Jim Crow, but it means knowing our history.