Page comments Comment by 'E.E.W. Clay' on Where auto history was made, calls to “Retool for Peace” As we read and support the struggles of workers-all manner of workers in all places in the world- in El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, Canada, including auto workers in Korea, we are harmed materially and spiritually, when we learn of murderous, vicious, racist repression. Yet, we know that this repression we have suffered in the United States of America, with the almost endless lynchings, shootings, legal travesties, jailings, beatings, illegal detentions-the Cuba 5 and Mumia come to mind-in struggling to gain Constitutional, civil, labor and voting rights. We know of a elaborate network of thought control, physical control, culminating in a racist, anti-democratic, anti-communist, anti-immigrant, exploitive system called capitalism. Materially, we workers are more and more robbed of our resources, in a race to make us ghosts, so much so that we cannot know our spiritual selves, our education born of struggles of the united workers at Ford, our art and education which sprung forth out of such struggles, the fight for education for our minds and hands to know how, where, why and when to fight, in unity. Now the wholesale anti-democratic, nigardly, austerity lies have taken a grotesque form of a fascistic, racist, tea-Party movement for the super-rich to take any remaining collective human rights of the workers, destroying labor, civil, and social rights legislation, with it, all public wealth and well-being, supplanting it with: PRIVATE PROPERTY. They have made it clear that we workers like the leader John Dick, suggests, must recreate a massive PUBLIC PROPERTY outlay for Detroit, and all working class communities, with the need and knowledge the internet has brought, reminiscient of the explosion of public libraries, public post offices, public schools, public communication, public transportation and infrastructure, of the sown struggles of the 30s; and gains reaped of the 40s; revolutionary, enviromentally safe energy technologies, with the necessary attendant explosion in dance, song, pictures, with all the miracles of light, sound and color which comes from workers'-art, and that art of their children. We cannot forget both the material and spiritual gifts the workers of the 30s and 40s left us-rapidly approaching one hundred years ago. More than anything, they reinforce our understanding of why we have to now "Retool for Peace", for progress, stopping war, for today. Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:55:39 -0400 E.E.W. Clay