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Summary Of Finally Got The News

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Headlines flash by the screen panning images of Negros for sale cuffed in chains; Negros who were forced to come to a country killed for being in the country; Negros who were whipped and sold off as property. Then, the images change drastically from slavery in the field to slavery inside a factory. Finally Got the News is a documentary that highlights the hidden legacy of the radical left of the 1970s; a time period when social movements challenged racism, imperialism and capitalism itself (Giroux).
The title of the documentary comes from a slogan used by the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, “Finally got the news, how your dues being used,” referring to the league’s outward hostility toward the United Auto Workers union. The slogan documents …show more content…

On May 2, 1968, a wildcat strike broke out in Dodge Main, which over the course of several days, grew into the largest work stoppage the factory had seen in decades (Loury). Meanwhile, this strategy served to catalyze only the emergent radical movements, both inside and outside the plants. Immediately after the strike, the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement (DRUM) was formed, the first of numerous Revolutionary Union Movements to spring up in Detroit that would eventually join into the League of Revolutionary Black Workers …show more content…

These events marked by both a repetition of struggles and oppression perpetrated by the United Auto Workers Union at the beginning of the decade. The repetition of struggles and oppression of the early conflict between the union and African American workers is obvious in the union’s attempt to contain activity by not helping those who participated in the wildcat strikes.
The Detroit riots came as a shock to those who didn’t live in the area and experience the woes of black workers during this time. However, those who did experience this prejudice and oppression, foresaw an inevitable uproar, perhaps of lesser magnitude (Loury). In addition to the growing outrage around police brutality, images of the riots spread throughout popular news media exposing the disappearance of “racial liberalism” in the context of urban industrialism in the United States. By communicating this crisis, Detroit’s image as a model of racial reconciliation was destroyed

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