![]() Have been through a thousand campaigns and movement groups since then, and can’t believe i’ve been so dumb so often. ![]() And active as the novice food drive coordinator in a long, bitter, ugly hospital workers’ strike, whose main public demand was pay raises up to the federal minimum wage (we lost badly). The wife lost it and screamed, ” People like you don’t need graduations!” A month later was living in a different state to find a job and avoid the “colored” military draft. Was fired for taking a night off for my own high school graduation. At the same time was working as an Asian houseboy for the family of a Jewish used car dealer (stereotypes abound for a reason). Where as the lone uneducated leftist i had tried unsuccessfully to sell copies of the socialist labor party newspaper (the only one i could get) every week to my classmates. It had started years earlier for me in high school in L.A.’s 1950’s San Fernando Valley. Even in the Bay Area that was the custom and law back then. “In the Fall 1961, i found myself with other militant Sit-In veterans in the reborn Oakland chapter of Congress of Racial Equality, picketing a major store which had refused to hire New Afrikans. ![]() Sakai is a revolutionary intellectual with decades of experience as an activist in the U.S. ![]()
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