8. The Education Committee recommends the continuance, as well as the expansion of the non-profit book store already under way and that provisions be made to provide local union libraries with books at cost. This book store should stimulate cultural activities for our union through the preparation of exhibits displays, etc. The book store should serve to disseminate information regarding the establishment of credit unions and other forms of cooperative endeavor. Adopted.

Cover of the proceedings of the ninth convention of the UAW. 1944.

Just learned that in 1944, the @uaw.org fought book banning in Detroit, when the city banned the novel Strange Fruit for portraying an interracial romance. The UAW and the Detroit Public Library teamed up to overturn the ban.
From their 1944 convention proceedings at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

How Communist Farmers in Minnesota Helped Radicalize Composer Aaron Copland A Composer’s Journey from the Concert Halls of NYC to Communist Picnics in the Heart of the Great Depression.

My latest weekly Substack (please subscribe) is about the time that composer Aaron Copland crossed paths with Communist farmers in Minnesota:
open.substack.com/pub/taylordo...

The year is 2009 and you just got one of these bad boys. What do you shoot with it first?

First time running film through this Leica that I've been repairing. I loaded up a small test roll on Saturday, shot it, used year-old chemicals to develop, and confirmed that I need to do a curtain replacement.

Picture of the monument, "Transcending." Headline reads, "Labor's legacy, a landmark for Detroit."

Thinking about how cool it is that Detroit has the country's largest monument dedicated to labor, "Transcending," and that anyone can go the waterfront and check it out.

Learn more about the Michigan Labor History Society's gift to the Motor City: michiganlaborhistorysociety.com/wp-content/u...

I think the biggest thing to remember is that it's okay to not feel like making art. I spent 4-5 years feeling that way about photography and I've come back to it again recently. Art ebbs and flows. You'll find it again in one form or another.