Black Lives Matter at Work
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HISTORY/PRACTICE<br />
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The Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement (DRUM), League of<br />
Revolutionary <strong>Black</strong> <strong>Work</strong>ers (LRBW), Revolutionary Action Movement<br />
(RAM), and other groups in Detroit used newspapers, film, community-tocampus<br />
organizing, and wildc<strong>at</strong> strike organizing to transform race and<br />
labor militancy. Some of their inspir<strong>at</strong>ion came from James and Grace Lee<br />
Boggs, CLR James, Robert A. Williams, <strong>Black</strong> Arts, <strong>Black</strong> Power, and<br />
urban riots th<strong>at</strong> swept the country in the mid-to-l<strong>at</strong>e 1960s. Here, here,<br />
and here are some gre<strong>at</strong> texts on DRUM's participants.<br />
Many people in the U.S. learned of South African labor militancy against<br />
apartheid for the first time during the anti-apartheid solidarity<br />
movements here. The film Have You Heard from Johannesburg? was an<br />
instrumental organizing tool th<strong>at</strong> has since been applied to solidarity with<br />
Palestine.
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