Farmer-labor education committee: exploring the past, creating the future

Organizing low-wage workers and the unemployed, fighting evictions, challenging economic inequality, demanding jobs and justice for all. Sound familiar?

From the early 1920s to its merger with the Democrats in 1944 to create the modern DFL, Farmer Laborites united urban and rural Minnesotans in a powerful movement for social justice. The issues they fought for remain as relevant today as they were back in the 1930s.

The Farmer Labor Education Committee (FLEC), a non-profit organization co-founded by the late Senator Paul Wellstone, seeks to educate new generations of Minnesotans about the history and continued relevance of the Minnesota Farmer-Labor tradition.

FLEC members are available for public presentations and will make educational materials available through this website.