#conservation corp

[chicagobotanicgarden]

Conservation Corps Teens Dig Into Summer

This paid summer internship gives young people hands-on conservation and environmental science experience.

You might have noticed a group of hard-working high-schoolers wearing hard hats and toting shovels at the Chicago Botanic Garden this summer. The aspiring conservationists—part of the Conservation Corps—are doing important restoration work throughout the Forest Preserves of Cook County, including a stint at the Garden.

Conservation Corps teens cleared overgrown bushes and installed new plantings…

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[riseuptimes]

Andrew Cornell | Anarchists and the Rise of the Welfare State

Andrew Cornell | Anarchists and the Rise of the Welfare State

Much of this organizing occurred under the auspices of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), a new umbrella organization that broke away from the AFL in 1935. Like the IWW, the new CIO unions sought to organize industrially — uniting every worker in a given field of production, regardless of skill level and race. Unlike with the IWW, the abolition of capitalism was not a goal, and…

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[libraryofva]

Recent Acquisition - Photograph Collection

April 8, 1933.  "Mobilization of recruits to President Roosevelt's Forest Conservation Corps started today in the District of Columbia. Here is a group of the first contingent to arrive at Ft. Washington for Army Post Training before entering the National Forest Camp near Luray, Va., rushing to the mess hall - the first in some time for some."