September + October Study Group: Detroit: I Do Mind Dying by Dan Georgakas and Marvin Surkin

Link to a PDF version of the book.

Schedule:

Chapters Intro + 1–5: Sunday, September 26th @ 7PM EST

Time: Sep 26, 2021 07:00 PM America/Detroit

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Meeting ID: 859 1196 0193

Chapters 6-12: Sunday, October 24th @ 7PM EST

Zoom link to be posted the day of.

Study Group discussions take place the fourth Sunday of each month.

Engagement:

In-progress Reading Guide

Further Resources Spreadsheet

For September and October 2021, we will be covering Detroit: I Do Mind Dying by Dan Georgakas and Marvin Surkin. This cycle will be co-led by Gabby, an organizer of the IWW.

Information of reading sections and sessions is on the left.

About the book: “Black autoworkers fight back against exploitation and oppression on the shop floors in the '60s and '70s.

Detroit: I Do Mind Dying tracks the extraordinary development of the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers as they became two of the landmark political organizations of the 1960s and 1970s. It is widely heralded as one the most important books on the black liberation movement.

Marvin Surkin received his PhD in political science from New York University and is a specialist in comparative urban politics and social change. He worked at the center of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers in Detroit.

Dan Georgakas is a writer, historian, and activist with a long-time interest in social movements. He is the author of My Detroit, Growing up Greek and American in Motor City.”

Description taken from Haymarket Books