Melrod, Jon: - Born into the political and cultural quiescence of the 1950s, Jonathan Melrod grew up in apartheid-like Washington DC.
Graduating cum laude with a JD, he opened a law firm in San Francisco successfully representing hundreds of political refugees..
After a mass workforce cutback imposed by AMC\'s joint venture partner Renault, he left to attend Hastings college of the law in San Francisco in 1985.
Despite FBI surveillance and interference, Jon organized a militant rank-and-file caucus and rose through union ranks to a top leadership position in UAW Local 72.
For thirteen years, he immersed himself in the day-to-day struggles of Milwaukee\'s working class, both on the factory floor and in the political arena.
He left the campus for the factory in 1973.
Active in the student movement that opposed the Vietnam War and a supporter of black liberation, Jon embraced the ideology that the working Class held the power to radically transform society.
Melrod, Jon: - Born into the political and cultural quiescence of the 1950s, Jonathan Melrod grew up in apartheid-like Washington DC