OXFORD, Miss. — Ua makemake koʻu hoa kahiko ʻo Ray Smithhart i ka hoʻohenehene o ka mea hana kaua uniona Nissan e hāʻawi makana ana i $100,000 i ka Medgar and Myrlie Evers Institute.
Ua ʻike ʻia i kona mau makahiki hope ma ke ʻano he "dean o nā mea hoʻonohonoho hana o Mississippi," ua hana pū ʻo Smithhart me ka martyr pono kīwila ʻo Medgar Evers i ka hopena o nā makahiki 1950 a me nā makahiki 1960, e hoʻopaʻa ana i kahi loulou ma waena o nā neʻe hana a me nā pono kīwila a Martin Luther King Jr. i kī no ka wā e hiki mai ana o lāua.
"Ua haʻi mai ʻo Medgar Evers iaʻu ʻo wau ke kanaka keʻokeʻo mua i kamaʻilio pū me ia," i ʻōlelo mai ai ʻo Smithhart iaʻu i ka wā o kahi ninaninau i ka makahiki ma mua o kona make ʻana i ka makahiki 88 ma 2005. "He mau pilina maikaʻi kā mākou."
ʻO ia ke kumu e ʻakaʻaka ai ʻo ia i ka lani. ʻO Nissan, i hui ʻia a puni ka honua akā e hakakā nei i ka unionization ma kāna mea kanu ma Canton, Miss., Ua hāʻawi i kāna hāʻawi i ka Evers Institute i ka mahina i hala. "Ke kamaʻilio nei kēia hui a nānā i ka hoʻonaʻauao ʻōpio, ka ʻokoʻa, a me ka hoʻolauleʻa lāhui, a ʻo ia nā mea like a Nissan e nānā ai," wahi a ka ʻōlelo a Nissan Jeffrey Webster.
Inā e ola ana ʻo Smithhart i kēia lā, e noi paha ʻo ia iā Nissan e nānā hohonu i nā manaʻo o Medgar Evers. "Pono ka poʻe a pau i ko lākou pono kīwila, ʻoi aku ka poʻe hana," wahi a Smithhart, ka mea i lawelawe ma ke ʻano he pelekikena o kahi United Rubber Workers kūloko a me ke kākau ʻōlelo puʻukū o ka mokuʻāina ʻo AFL-CIO.
Ke hōʻailona nei ʻo Mississippi a me ka lāhui i ka 50th ka lā hoʻomanaʻo o ka pepehi ʻana iā Evers me ka lōʻihi o ka hoʻomaikaʻi ʻana i ka mea hana hope a me ke kākau ʻōlelo kahua o ka Mississippi NAACP. Ua pepehi ʻia ʻo Evers ma mua o kona home ma Jackson, Miss., i ka lā 12 o Iune, 1963. Aia nā hanana i ka makahiki makahiki Medgar Evers Dinner ma Jackson i kēia mahina aʻe. Ma waena o ka poʻe ma ka lima ka mea hoʻokani Hollywood a me ka mea hana hana ʻo Danny Glover, he mea kākoʻo leo o ka hana uniona ma Nissan.
"Ke noʻonoʻo nei wau e pili ana iā Medgar Evers," i ʻōlelo ai ʻo Glover i kahi hui o nā limahana Nissan pro-union i Iulai i hala. "He 37 wale nō kona mau makahiki i kona wā i make ai. Aia ʻo Medgar Evers ma ʻaneʻi e kākoʻo iā ʻoe."
Ke kūkulu nei nā mea hana, nā alakaʻi kaiāulu a me nā United Auto Workers i ke kākoʻo e kiʻi iā Nissan e ʻae i ke koho balota kūpono no nā limahana 5,000 ma kāna hale kanu Canton. Ua ʻōlelo ka poʻe hana ke hana nei ka ʻoihana i kahi hoʻolaha anti-union ikaika i loko o ka mea kanu e komo pū ana me nā hui hoʻokahi me nā mana, nā wikiō a me nā hoʻoweliweli o ka pani ʻana o nā mea kanu a me nā layoffs inā koho nā limahana e hui i kahi uniona.
Ua kūʻē ʻo Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn i ka hui ʻana ma nā mea kanu o ka hui ma Mississippi a me Tennessee ʻoiai ʻo kāna poʻe limahana ma nā wahi ʻē aʻe o ka honua i hui pū ʻia.
Ua lawe ka UAW i ka moʻolelo Canton i ka honua. Ua mālama ʻia nā rallies ma Atlanta, New York, Detroit, a hiki i Brazil. He mau haneli i hele mai no kahi ʻaha euanelio ma ke kula ʻo Tougaloo i Ianuali i hōʻike ʻia iā Glover a me kahi pūʻulu o nā haʻi, nā haumāna, nā mea hana, a me nā limahana.
ʻO ka makana $100,000 i ka Evers Institute he hōʻailona paha ia e manaʻo nei ʻo Nissan i ke kaomi. Ua hoʻolaha hou aku nei ka hui i kahi haʻawina hoʻonaʻauao $500,000 i ka Apana Kula Aupuni ʻo Canton. Ua hōʻike ʻo Nissan i $84.4 biliona i ka loaʻa kālā a me $4.37 biliona ma ka loaʻa kālā hana no nā mahina ʻeiwa i pau i Dekemaba 2012.
ʻAʻole naʻe nā mea āpau no ka pilina o Nissan me Canton ʻeleʻele nui. ʻO ka hoʻoikaika ʻana a nā luna kānāwai o ka mokuʻāina e kākoʻo i kahi $100 miliona hoʻonui mea kanu a me ka hoʻolālā kākoʻo o ka mea hoʻolako ma Madison County ua hoʻokumu i nā alakaʻi kālai'āina kūloko, ka poʻe e huhū mau nei i kahi pāpā i kākoʻo ʻia e Canton e hoʻohui i ka mea kanu.
ʻO nā hāʻawi kālā a Nissan, hoʻokipa ʻia e like me lākou, ʻaʻole e ʻōlelo e pili ana i ka nīnau kumu o nā kuleana o nā limahana, ʻo ia hoʻi kahi hihia kīwila.
Ua make ʻo Evers i ke kumu o ia mau pono. ʻO Smithhart hoʻi, aia ma ka laina mua, e hoʻohui ana i nā pūnāwai wai, e koi ana i nā alakaʻi o Jackson e hoʻolimalima i nā mākaʻi ʻeleʻele. I ka makahiki 1962, ki aku nā goons i 200 pellets i loko o ke kaʻa o Smithhart kokoke i Ripley. Ua haʻi aku kahi mākaʻi o Port Gibson iā ia "ʻaʻohe mea e lohe hou" iā ia inā ʻaʻole ʻo ia e haʻalele i ke kūlanakauhale.
"ʻAʻole au e ʻae i nā pūʻali kūʻē i ka uniona e hoʻoweliweli iaʻu," wahi a Smithhart. "Ua kū wau i koʻu kūlana, a ʻaʻole lākou makemake."
Ua haʻi mai ʻo Claude Ramsay, ka pelekikena o ka mokuʻāina ʻo AFL-CIO i kēlā manawa a me kekahi hoa ʻē aʻe o Evers, i ka wā o ka ninaninau 1981: "E kāhea mai lākou iaʻu a hoʻoweliweli mai iaʻu. ua haʻi aku au iā lākou e lawe au i ʻelua o lākou me aʻu."
"Ua hoʻololi ka poʻe hana i ka pōʻino a me ke kaumaha i ka manaolana a me ka holomua," wahi a Martin Luther King Jr. "ʻO nā pūʻali koa ikaika ʻelua a me ka hui pū ʻana o ka ʻāina, ʻo ia ka neʻe hana a me ka neʻe kūʻokoʻa Negro."
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