Walter Philip Reuther, born on september 1 in 1907, was an American leader of organized labor and civil rights activist who helped build the United Automobile Workers (UAW) into one of the most progressive labor unions in U.S. history. He saw labor movements not as narrow special interest groups but as instruments to advance social justice and human rights.
Reuther leveraged the UAW's resources and influence to advocate for workers' rights, civil rights, women's rights, universal health care, public education, affordable housing, environmental stewardship and nuclear nonproliferation around the world. Reuther survived two attempted assassinations, including one at home where he was struck by a 12-gauge shotgun blast fired through his kitchen window.
Reuther was an ally of MLK Jr. and César Chavez, marching with the former on several occasions. A lifetime environmentalist, Reuther also played a critical role in funding and organizing the first Earth Day on April 22nd, 1970.
Despite Reuther's advocacy for social justice, he did not seek systemic change. Socialist autoworker Beatrice Hansen had this to say of Reuther in 1955:
"Yes, Reuther, like the capitalists, is satisfied to live with things substantially as they are, instead of fighting to change things fundamentally, the way [Eugene V. ] Debs did. Reuther shrugged his shoulders after the Ford settlement and said, 'You never get everything.'
What a far cry that is from Eugene Debs, whose mission it was to educate the workers so that they would not stop fighting and would not be satisfied until they had succeeded in forever wiping the system of wage exploitation from the face of the earth!"
Reuther died in plane crash on May 9th, 1970, and when an inspection revealed that parts of the plane were installed incorrectly, some speculated he had been assassinated. Public intellectual Michael Parenti wrote "Reuther's demise appears as part of a truncation of liberal and radical leadership that included the deaths of four national figures: President John Kennedy, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, and Senator Robert Kennedy."
"There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow man. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well."
- Walter Reuther
https://aflcio.org/about/history/labor-history-people/walter-reuther
https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/document/swp-us/misc-1/hanonreuth.htm
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oh, i was looking at billboards the other day, kinda forgot it said it would be coming back tomorrow, i was like "did this season already happen?" then "why'd they split it in two?"
24 is what you expect of any 2-cour anime, the weird part is that it was split in 3. I suppose they want to hype the ending like they did for BCS.
they should've done week to week, but it is what it is
i should probably catch up some time, but i cba to watch anime
That's what everyone's saying, it seems Netflix is trying to have it both ways by not releasing the ending. tbh I don't think it's terribly important, I don't keep up with regularly scheduled shows and everybody can read the manga already.
Rem’s “oh shit Jojo’s coming back” kinda shows how bad an idea the binge format is for anime