A People's Calendar
A People's Calendar (aPC) is an open-source project that seeks to promote the worldwide history of working class movements and liberation struggles in the form of a searchable "On This Day" style calendar.
Event of the Day
![Seattle General Strike participants leaving the shipyard after going on strike, 1919. [Wikipedia]](https://stahmaxffcqankienulh.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/event-photos/Events/seattleGeneralStrike.jpg)
Seattle General Strike (1919)Feb 6th, 1919
On this day in 1919, a general strike involving ~100,000 workers in Seattle began. Workers, vilified as "Bolsheviki", set up an alternative government that distributed 30,000 meals daily and a police force that did not carry weapons.
Image: Seattle General Strike participants leaving the shipyard after going on strike, 1919. [Wikipedia]