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From Here To There: The Staughton Lynd Reader
isbn: 9781604863536 (EPUB), 9781604863529 (MOBI) formats: epub mobi
published: 04/2010 pages: 320 price: 11.50 euros |
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Staughton Lynd taught history at Spelman College and Yale in the 1960s and coordinated the hugely successful Freedom Schools during the Mississippi Summer Project of 1964. After moving to New Haven, Lynd became a spokesperson for opponents of the Vietnam War. As a result of these activities, Lynd was blacklisted as a university professor and he and his wife became lawyers. Since 1976 they have lived in Youngstown, Ohio, working with and representing local victims of deindustrialization, and prisoners confined at Ohio’s first super-maximum security prison.
Together with Marty Glaberman, Stan Weir, and Daniel Gross of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), he developed and publicized "solidarity unionism": the idea that workers should rely on their own direct action and seek horizontal relationships with similar groups in other workplaces.
Staughton Lynd turned 80 in November 2009. Throughout, he has affirmed that another world is possible and sought means to get from here to there.
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