Dan Georgakas (Greek: Νταν Γεωργακάς; March 1, 1938 – November 23, 2021)[1] 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.
[5] 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.
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.
It highlights: conditions of line work, corruption of union apparatus, daily racism in American society.
[4] Georgakas had long served on the editorial board of Cineaste magazine and specializes in Latin American cinema.