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From Hammer & Hoe to #BAmazonUnion: a conversation with Dr. Robin D.G. Kelley - 3/16/2021
On March 16th, 2021 Dr. Robin D.G. Kelley, author of “Hammer and Hoe: Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression" and Gary B. Nash Professor of American History at U.C.L.A. joined Asantewaa Nkrumahj Ture of Black Alliance for Peace and Ted Kelly of Workers World Party to discuss the history and significance of the #BAmazon Union struggle led by majority Black workers in Bessemer, Alabama who are taking on Amazon and fighting for a union.
Alabama — particularly the Birmingham-Bessemer area — has a centuries-old tradition of Black-led organizing against enslavement, racist land seizures, Jim Crow racism, prison-convict labor, segregation laws and Ku Klux Klan violence. Within living memory of the Amazon workers and their families is their starkly dedicated struggle against white-supremacist assassinations and bombings of Black churches and homes during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.
In 1990, Dr. Robin D.G. Kelley published the phenomenal book “Hammer and Hoe: The Alabama Communist Party 1928-1951,” documenting the 23-year history of the Alabama Communist Party, a chapter of the Communist Party USA.
Formed and molded by Black sharecroppers and laborers such as Black revolutionary Hosea Hudson, the ACP went above and beyond fighting for the rights of laborers and workers, Black and white, to the rights to housing, food and equal pay.
We are also joined by Saladin Muhammad of the Southern Workers Assembly, Devin Cole of WWP Central Gulf Coast and STRIVE, and Susan Abulhawa, Workers World Party member and author of "Mornings in Jenin" and "Against the Loveless World."
Learn more about building March 20th solidarity actions at supportamazonworkers.org.
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On March 16th, 2021 Dr. Robin D.G. Kelley, author of “Hammer and Hoe: Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression" and Gary B. Nash Professor of American History at U.C.L.A. joined Asantewaa Nkrumahj Ture of Black Alliance for Peace and Ted Kelly of Workers World Party to discuss the history and significance of the #BAmazon Union struggle led by majority Black workers in Bessemer, Alabama who are taking on Amazon and fighting for a union.
Alabama — particularly the Birmingham-Bessemer area — has a centuries-old tradition of Black-led organizing against enslavement, racist land seizures, Jim Crow racism, prison-convict labor, segregation laws and Ku Klux Klan violence. Within living memory of the Amazon workers and their families is their starkly dedicated struggle against white-supremacist assassinations and bombings of Black churches and homes during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.
In 1990, Dr. Robin D.G. Kelley published the phenomenal book “Hammer and Hoe: The Alabama Communist Party 1928-1951,” documenting the 23-year history of the Alabama Communist Party, a chapter of the Communist Party USA.
Formed and molded by Black sharecroppers and laborers such as Black revolutionary Hosea Hudson, the ACP went above and beyond fighting for the rights of laborers and workers, Black and white, to the rights to housing, food and equal pay.
We are also joined by Saladin Muhammad of the Southern Workers Assembly, Devin Cole of WWP Central Gulf Coast and STRIVE, and Susan Abulhawa, Workers World Party member and author of "Mornings in Jenin" and "Against the Loveless World."
Learn more about building March 20th solidarity actions at supportamazonworkers.org.
Hippety Hop by Alexander Nakarada | www.serpentsoundstudios.com
Music promoted by www.free-stock-music.com
Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Grey by Patchworker f.k.a. [friendzoned] | @patchworker
Music promoted by www.free-stock-music.com
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported
creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US