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Part 2 of our interview with Terry Davis, about the multi-racial coalition of workers who established a democratic, militant union at the Stewart-Warner auto parts plant in Chicago in the 1970s and 1980s. In Part 2, Sister Davis talks about how workplace organizing makes multiracial unity objectively important, what organizers learned from the Black Power movement, and lessons for today’s organizers.
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Part 2 of our interview with Terry Davis, about the multi-racial coalition of workers who established a democratic, militant union at the Stewart-Warner auto parts plant in Chicago in the 1970s and 1980s. In Part 2, Sister Davis talks about how workplace organizing makes multiracial unity objectively important, what organizers learned from the Black Power movement, and lessons for today’s organizers.
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