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DESCRIPTION:10/1 SF ILWU Local 10 Educational  "How Labor and the Left Transformed 
 \n\nHawaii”\n\n"How Labor and the Left Transformed Hawaii”\n\nSaturday, 
 Oct. 1 - 11 am \n\n\n           Speaker Dr. Gerald Horne\n\n         ILWU 
 Local 10 Union Hall \n\n    400 North Point, San Francisco\n            -in 
 the rear building, upstairs in the Henry Schmidt room-\n\nCommentator 
 Harvey Schwartz, Curator of the ILWU Oral History Collection\nSponsored by 
 International Longshore and Warehouse Union L.10 Education 
 Committee\n\nGerald Horne pulls no punches. Do not miss this chance to hear 
 an \nexceptional scholar tell a true history of labor in Hawaii, as 
 detailed in \nhis recently published book Fighting in Paradise. This is a 
 story seldom \nheard – a picture of how the people made 
 history!\n\n“Gerald Horne offers readers an eye-opening account 
 explaining how the labor movement and the left \nplayed decisive roles in 
 moving Hawaii from feudal colony to the most progressive state in the 
 union.” - Nelson \nLichtenstein, Director, Center for the Study of Work, 
 Labor, & Democracy, U.C. Santa Barbara.\n\nDr. Gerald Horne is the author 
 of approximately 30 books and the Moores Chair of History and African 
 American\nStudies at the University of Houston. He received his PhD from 
 Columbia University and a J.D. from U.C. Berkeley.\n\n    	Dr. Horne shows 
 in The White Pacific: U.S. Imperialism and Black Slavery in the South 
 \nSeas After the Civil War (a companion book to Fighting In Paradise) how 
 Confederates left the \nU.S. after the Civil War and enslaved Polynesians 
 and Melanesians in Fiji and Australia. When \nthe Hawaiian Kingdom tried to 
 organize a diplomatic campaign against South Pacific slavery, \nit was 
 overthrown by the U.S. in the early 1890's. Hawaii became an apartheid 
 state with \nplantations.\n    	In Fighting In Paradise, Horne documents 
 how the ILWU mounted successful \norganizing drives among plantation and 
 dock workers in the early 1930's and broke the \napartheid system. Racial 
 and ethnic divides among workers were bridged by the ILWU \nthrough 
 acknowledging differences and embracing them. Horne writes that the ILWU 
 led the \nlargest progressive movement in the U.S., rescuing Hawaii from 
 apartheid and bringing it into \ndemocracy. Hawaii's extensive social 
 welfare system and the power of unions to shape the \nstate politically are 
 a direct result of those struggles.\n 
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SUMMARY:SF ILWU Local 10 Educational "How Labor and the Left Transformed Hawaii"
LOCATION:The ILWU Local 10 Education Committee will be having a presentation on "How 
 Labor And The Left Transformed Hawaii"
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/09/21/18690965.php
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