Building Bridges Radio: Your Community and Labor Report
National Edition
Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
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What Is To Be Done?
In this period of intensified class warfare against the working class and the poor,
what will it take to mobilize the people for the mass movement it will surely take to
win? Many have been heartened by the fightback in Wisconsin and many of the
frontline states. But is the predominately electoral strategy that is currently being
followed sufficient to win? What is the role direct action, strikes, including general
strikes, and cross union and community solidarity? We talk with:
General Baker has been called the most important 21st century American revolutionary. He was a leader of the Detroit wildcat strikes in the 1960s, a founder of the legendary League of Revolutionary Black Workers, the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement (DRUM), & the first American to refuse induction to fight in Vietnam. The book, "Detroit: I Do Mind Dying" (about the worker revolts of that era) calls Baker the "soul of the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement (DRUM)." An autoworker for 30 years, he remains a champion of the unemployed and unorganized workers.
Stanley Aronowitz is a Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he studies labor, social movements, science and technology, education, social theory and cultural studies. He is author or editor of 25 books including: Left Turn: Forging a New Political Future; How Class Works; The Jobless Future with William DiFazio); and False Promises: The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness.
Staughton Lynd has dedicated his life to activism and social change as a historian, lawyer, and labor activist. He helped direct the Mississippi Freedom Schools. In April 1965 he spoke at the first march on Washington against the Vietnam War and became an early leader of the anti-war movement. Subsequent to becoming an attorney he spent years focusing on labor and prison issues. He wrote the definitive history of the 1993 Ohio prison uprising at Lucasville as well as the ever popular “Labor Law for the Rank and Filer” and “Rank and File” oral histories of the 1930’s
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