This is a link to a podcast interview I did with activist, author, and radio show host Wade Rahtke. We discuss the current political situation in the UAW at the end.
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Posts by Rob McKenzie
You should inform your members that murdering another member is "conduct unbecoming a union member."
Coretta Scott King... Walter Reuther was to black people the most widely known and respected white labor leader in the nation. He was there when the storm clouds were thick. We
remember him in Montgomery. He was in Birmingham.
He marched with us in Selma and Jackson, Mississippi
and in Washington."
Since my Facebook page "Labor, Power & History" was hacked, deleted, and then disabled by Meta, I have launched a website with the same name. It is far from perfect, but at least functional.
robmckenzie.net
“'The guy, I’m telling him like, "Please step off the school grounds," and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he knocked me down,' an official at Roosevelt High School said. 'They don’t care. They’re just animals. I’ve never seen people behave like this.'"
Walter Reuther 1967: “A new concept of union organization has been developing in areas such as Delano and Watts, CA. Properly nurtured and motivated, it can spread across the nation, changing the social character of the inner-city structure. This new organizing effort is called “community union.”
In 1970, they killed labor leader Walter Reuther, and now they're trying to kill a book about it.
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Walter Reuther was wounded by a shotgun blast in 1948. No one was ever convicted of the attack, and the FBI refused to investigate. Reuther's enemies were successful in assassinating him in 1970 in a sabotaged plane. The FBI was responsible for an investigation but never conducted one.
Was UAW President Walter Reuther Assassinated? and What Would a Pro- Worker Tariff Policy Look Like? kkfi.org/program-epis...
Book launch for "The Assassination of Walter Reuther" drive.google.com/file/d/1Txz6...
Walter Reuther devoted his life to building a more just, democratic, and humane society — and he made powerful enemies along the way. The unanswered questions about his death are about the forces determined to silence a voice for working people. us02web.zoom.us/.../register...
This partially declassified FBI memo falsely identifies Reuther as a communist just months before his assassination. Researchers recently learned that the redaction "referred to another government agency" was made by the CIA. The FBI has refused to declassify this.
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This partially declassified FBI memo falsely identifies Reuther as a communist months before his assassination. Researchers recently learned that the redaction "referred to another government agency" was made by the CIA. The FBI has refused to declassify this fully.
us02web.zoom.us/.../reg.../X....
Walter Reuther was the most progressive and effective labor leader of his era, an ally of the Kennedys and MLK. This book raises the most serious questions that his final plane flight was not an accident, but an act of sabotage. James DiEugenio, writer JFK Revisited, us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
"Walter Reuther was the most progressive and effective labor leader of his era..This book raises the most serious questions that his final plane flight was not an accident, but an act of sabotage." James DiEugenio. The Assassination of Walter Reuther: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
The UAW’s Walter Reuther was killed. The FBI wouldn’t investigate; the NTSB suppressed critical information. Author Rob McKenzie will talk about it on August 28, 2025, and you’re invited! The Assassination of Walter Reuther: Why They Did It, How We Know ZOOM us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
My new book. A book launch will take place in Detroit on August 28, 2025. https://algora.com/product/the-assassination-of-walter-reuther/
New JFK File: A Spy Called 'Howard' Publicized Oswald, Targeted Americans, and Recruited Assassins
open.substack.com/pub/jfkfacts...
www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/0...
New JFK Files: 'Those Who Say There's Nothing Here, Don't Know What They're Talking About'
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This is really smart by @sanders.senate.gov Go to republican districts and push voters to pressure their republican reps.
www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...
This laborvideo reports that the Solidarity Center has been completely shut down.
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Why is the USA the only country in the world with bird flu H5N1 ripping through cattle herds?
Because in the United States, it’s legal to feed chicken shit to cattle.
That’s why. That’s literally the reason
www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
I see very little disruption in the profession and wonder why historians are such avid defenders of the status quo.