Author: Bradley Allen

Comment:“You’re not the boss of me.” That’s what the email said – or at least the part of the email on which I was focused. Fairly new to the ILWU, I was a bit taken aback by this communication from Local 6 Secretary-Treasurer, Fred Pecker. I had interacted with Fred on a number of occasions…

By Bill Herbert williamandrewherbert[at]gmail.com Rahsaan Roland Kirk said it the best at the Keystone Korner in San Francisco in 1973: “Bright Moments is like hearing some music that ain’t nobody else heard, and if they heard it they wouldn’t even recognize that they heard it because they been hearing it all their life but they…