This week we honor the late Emma Tenayuca, Tejana labor leader, union organizer and educator. She is best known for leading the massive San Antonio Pecan Shellers Strike in 1938. The strike included over 12,000 workers and lasted for three months.

Thinking about San Antonio labor leader Emma Tenayuca today mysanantonio.com/news/local/art…

🌞This morning, I visited our Carvajal Elementary school students to read the children's book on Emma Tenayuca's life called "That's Not Fair!/¡No es Justo!" Thank you for having me, and I look forward to visiting again!📚

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Saturday November 12: The Emma Tenayuca Symposium!

#OtD 6 Nov 1913 striking Indian mine workers in South Africa demonstrated against a new tax on former indentured labourers, with the background of a mass direct action campaign against racist pass laws. The tax was scrapped

#OtD 6 Nov 1922 79 coal miners were killed in an explosion in Pennsylvania. Despite the mine being rated gaseous and miners being burned by gas at least 4 times, the mine was rated non-gaseous at the insistence of new mine operators

#OtD 6 Nov 1915 Spanish anarchist, anti-fascist, and member of the Mujeres Libres, María Bruguera Pérez was born. libcom.org/library/free-w…

San Antonio has often been the center of Mexican American culture & activism. Today, I joined Mexican American Civil Rights Institute (MACRI), Ron Nirenberg, Councilwoman Teri Castillo & others to push for the designation of Emma Tenayuca Memorial Way on Cevallos St from I-35 to Probandt to honor her life as a labor leader.

Local civil rights icon Emma Tenayuca is set to be honored decades after her work and activism in San Antonio. ksat.com/news/local/202…

I was proud to join Councilwoman Teri Castillo, Joaquin Castro, Mexican American Civil Rights Institute (MACRI), and Emma Tenayuca's family to announce a Council Consideration Request that honors Emma's legacy. The designation of Emma Tenayuca Memorial Way will be the first of many commemorations of San Antonio's heritage.

"The plan is about the future, to educate generations, now and then, about the contributions made by people like Emma Tenayuca to our community and to the world.” Emma's memorialization is just the start. CC: Councilwoman Teri Castillo Joaquin Castro Mexican American Civil Rights Institute (MACRI) bit.ly/3Faew1B

#OtD 21 Dec 1916 Mexican American strike leader Emma Tenayuca was born in San Antonio. Most famously she led a successful strike of 12,000 pecan shelling women in 1938. More info here: libcom.org/history/emma-t…

Born #OTD in 1916, Emma Tenayuca was a trailblazing labor rights leader in Texas and a leader of the Workers Alliance of America. She organized the largest ever strike in San Antonio with the Pecan Shellers’ Strike of 1938 to protest low wages and unhealthy working conditions.

The Nation, “The Militant Passion of Emma Tenayuca” – Agency anarchistagency.com/in-the-news/th…

Honoring the legacy of #EmmaTenayuca and the rights of labor. #SAisLOVE #Cultura #History #PecanShellersStrike #HUELGA

Thank you to the students of Burbank HS, Mr. Amphlett and Mr. Muñiz for welcoming me and giving me the opportunity to discuss the legacy of Emma Tenayuca and the Pecan Shellers Strike! It is so important that we recognize our rich labor history in San Antonio! 🤝

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