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Georgakas had long served on the editorial board of Cineaste magazine and specializes in Latin American cinema. Georgakas had spoken at annual seminars for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW). In the late 1980s, Georgakas began co-writing the Encyclopedia of the American Left (1990, 1998) with Mari Jo Buhle and husband Paul Buhle. It highlights: conditions of line work, corruption of union apparatus, daily racism in American society. The book traces workers' struggles of the 1970s in the car factories. In 1975, Georgakas co-published with Marvin Surkin Detroit: I do mind dying: a study in urban revolution. Inspired by the civil disobedience of Henry David Thoreau, the manifesto united 528 American writers and publishers who refused to pay the 10% tax for the Vietnam War. In 1967, he signed the "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest," initiated by an editor of the New York Times Magazine.

In 1966, Georgakas and painter Ben Morea helped found the Anarchist group Up Against the Wall Motherfucker affiliated with New York City's Lower East Side. Early life ĭan Georgakas was born March 1, 1938, to Xenophon and Sophia Georgakas in Detroit, Michigan. He is the author of My Detroit, Growing up Greek and American in Motor City.Dan Georgakas ( Greek: Νταν Γεωργακάς 1938–2021) was an American anarchist poet and historian, who specialized in oral history and the American labor movement, best known for the publication Detroit: I do mind dying: A study in urban revolution (1975), which documents African-American radical groups in Detroit during the 1960s and 1970s. He worked at the center of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers in Detroit.ĭan Georgakas is a writer, historian, and activist with a long-time interest in social movements. Marvin Surkin received his PhD in political science from New York University and is a specialist in comparative urban politics and social change. It is widely heralded as one the most important books on the black liberation movement. Black autoworkers fight back against exploitation and oppression on the shop floors in the '60s and '70s.ĭetroit: I Do Mind Dying tracks the extraordinary development of the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers as they became two of the landmark political organizations of the 1960s and 1970s.