Original Event Date and Time: November 18, 2021 | 5:00 pm Pacific Time
Topic: Book Event: "Mobilizing in Our Own Name: Millions Worker March"

The Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies hosted a Zoom Webinar with labor activists Gabriel Prawl, Chris Silvera, Clarence Thomas, Brenda Stokely, and Trent Willis to discuss the new book "Mobilizing in Our Own Name: Million Worker March." The event was moderated by Professor Peter Cole (Western Illinois University).

Speakers

Clarence Thomas
Retired member of the ILWU Local 10, and author, "Mobilizing in Our Own Name"

Clarence Thomas is a 3rd generation retired member of International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 10 in San Francisco and a leading radical African American trade unionist. Past secretary-treasurer and executive board member of his local, he has led or been a part of many historical rank-and-file struggles and solidarity actions at the point of production. A labor and community activist, Thomas has championed the struggles of African Americans, the oppressed, and the working class at home and abroad.

Gabriel Prawl
President, A. Philip Randolph Institute (Seattle), former President ILWU Local 52, and Pacific Northwest co-convener of the MWM.

Chris Silvera
Secretary-Treasurer International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 808, and East Coast co-convener of the MWM.

Brenda Stokely
Past President AFSCME DC 1707, Local 205, East Coast co-convener of the MWM.

Trent Willis
President ILWU Local 10, co-founder of the MWM.

Host

Peter Cole
Professor of History, Western Illinois University

Peter Cole is a Professor of History at Western Illinois University and Research Associate at the Society, Work and Development Institute, University of the Witwatersrand. He is the author of “Wobblies on the Waterfront (2007),” “Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area (2018),” “Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly (2021),” and editor of “Wobblies of the World (2017).”