{"id":368112,"date":"2018-07-05T10:44:54","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T09:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/family-of-jacoby-hennings-to-celebrate-young-autoworkers-life\/"},"modified":"2018-07-05T10:44:54","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T09:44:54","slug":"family-of-jacoby-hennings-to-celebrate-young-autoworkers-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/family-of-jacoby-hennings-to-celebrate-young-autoworkers-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Family of Jacoby Hennings to celebrate young autoworker\u2019s life"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h4>\u201cThis is a day to honor Coby\u201d<\/h4>\n<h2>Family of Jacoby Hennings to celebrate young autoworker\u2019s life<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Jerry White<br \/>\n    <br \/>5 July 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>The family of Jacoby Hennings is holding a memorial picnic this Sunday to celebrate the life of the young autoworker who died at Ford\u2019s Woodhaven Stamping Plant, just outside of Detroit, on October 20, 2017. Large numbers of family members, friends and co-workers are expected to attend the \u201cCoby Day\u201d event, which will be held on Sunday, July 8, from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m., at Kennedy Park in the Detroit suburb of Eastpointe, Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wish I didn\u2019t have to organize an event like this,\u201d Shemeeka Hennings, Jacoby\u2019s mother, a long-time Chrysler worker, told the <em>World Socialist Web Site<\/em>. \u201cMy son should still be here. We\u2019ll never recover from this loss. But we are not the only ones who loved Coby, a lot of other people did too. This is a day we set aside to remember and honor Coby. We welcome everyone to join us,\u201d Shemeeka said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"imageFull\" style=\"width:480px; oveflow:hidden;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/asset\/f91a200d-a680-4d39-9a60-ca49796f08fF\/image.jpg?rendition=image480\" srcset=\"\/asset\/f91a200d-a680-4d39-9a60-ca49796f08fF\/image.jpg?rendition=image960 2x\" width=\"480\" style=\"width:480px;\" \/><span>Shemeeka and Bernard Hennings Jr.<\/span><\/div>\n<p>The July 8 memorial picnic, Shemeeka continued, would be \u201ca day of fun for everybody, family and kids, with games and slides. Coby loved fireworks. There will be a microphone, and people will be able to speak. It will be free, because if we were asking for anything it wouldn\u2019t be a Coby Day. Coby was a giving person and he would walk right up and give you anything if you needed it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More than eight months since the death of the Hennings, a 21-year-old temporary part-time worker (TPT), the full circumstances surrounding the incident are still not known. Officials from the United Auto Workers, Ford and the Woodhaven police say the young man took his life after a \u201clabor dispute\u201d in a UAW office in the Ford plant. While the police quickly closed their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/02\/22\/henn-f22.html\">investigation<\/a>,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/07\/05\/memo-j05.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u201cThis is a day to honor Coby\u201d Family of Jacoby Hennings to celebrate young autoworker\u2019s life By Jerry White 5 July 2018 The family of Jacoby Hennings is holding a memorial picnic this Sunday to celebrate the life of the young autoworker who died at Ford\u2019s Woodhaven Stamping Plant, just outside of Detroit, on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-368112","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}