RE: Was the civil rights struggle "a mass proletarian movement"?

[Mike Friedman <mikedf@xxxxxxxx>]

> I see the very same thing today in the immigrant movement in Atlanta. At
Sounds something like "Salt of the Earth."


> a shop steward training for UNITE that I attended as a volunteer
> interpreter, the immigrant rank and files leaders were asked by the
> union official leading one part of the session why shop stewards should
> help organize other plants (this is in the large industrial laundry
> sector). The answers, much to my surprise, were all *national*: things
> like "because we Latinos have to stand up," "we've been oppressed too
> long," "its the only way we're going to get respect," "even if I don't
> get my rights, my children will have them," etc.


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