Mobilizing in OUR OWN NAME: Million Worker March

by Clarence Thomas

Today's workers can no longer continue to depend on politicians to address issues of systemic racism, income inequality, corporate greed, workers rights, universal health care, slashing the military budget, and ending the murder of African Americans and people of color by police. The initiators of the Million Worker March (MWM) understood this which is why they challenged the Democratic Party and others to organize the MWM. This anthology is about radical African American trade unionists from one of the most renowned radical labor organizations in the world, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 10, which defied the Democratic Party and the AFL-CIO, and mobilized the MWM on October 17, 2004 at the Lincoln Memorial. The writer understands that now more than ever workers around the world must act in unity in our own interests. Workers must build an international rank-and-file fight-back movement to defend the rights of workers internationally to achieve economic security and a peaceful world. The MWM called for an independent mobilization of working people, with a workers agenda, to address the unrestrained class warfare by the captains of capital. This historic event, which was viewed on C-Span, attracted thousands of workers, immigrant rights groups, anti-war activists, community organizations, social movements, youth, and trade unionists from around the world. This anthology captures radical workers' actions and struggles written by activists as those events were happening through news articles, interviews, photos, posters, leaflets, and video transcripts. Through these documents, the story is told of the MWM Movement, its roots, and the branches that have grown from it mobilizing in our own name. It is intended to create a historic account and give impetus to the struggle ahead.

354 pages, Paperback

Published May 11, 2021

About the author

Clarence Thomas (J.D., Yale Law School, 1974; A.B. English literature, College of the Holy Cross (Worcester, Massachusetts), 1971) is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, having served since 1991; since the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy, Thomas has been the senior-most Associate Justice on the Court. Justice Thomas is the second African American to serve on the nation's highest court, after Justice Thurgood Marshall, whom he succeeded.

Thomas grew up in Georgia, and graduated from college and law school in New England. In 1974, he was appointed an Assistant Attorney General in Missouri (primarily handling tax matters), and subsequently practiced law there in the private sector. In 1979, he became a legislative assistant to Missouri Senator John Danforth, and in 1981 was appointed as Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education. The following year, Thomas became Chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, in which position he served for eight years until joining the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 1990.

Nominated to the Supreme Court by President George H.W. Bush in 1991, Thomas's confirmation hearings were bitter and intensely fought.

Since joining the Court, Thomas has taken an originalist approach to judging, seeking to uphold what he sees as the original meaning of the Constitution and statutes. Moreover, he has often approached federalism issues in a way that limits the federal government's power and expands power of state and local governments, while his opinions have generally supported a strong executive within the federal government.

Reviews

[Sandra Rivers]

The FRUITCAKE, FAR RIGHTWING NUT, SCOTUS clarence thomas is NOT the author of ‘MOBILIZING IN OUR OWN NAME
The author of MOBILIZING IN OUR OWN NAME - - The MILLION WORKER MOVEMENT‘ is ANOTHER CLARENCE THOMAS Leader of the International Longshoremen and Warehouse Union {ILWU} Local 10 - of Oakland-SF, Calf.)
This is plain as day from the cover and photos with the book cover.
This is an EGREGIOUS mistake!!!!