إن لله ما أخذ وله ما أعطى وكلّ شيء عنده بأجل مسمّى انا لله و انا اليه راجعون اللهم اغفر له وارحمه وعافه واعف عنه وأكرم نزله ووسّع مُدخله واغسله بالماء والثّلج والبرد ونقّه من الخطايا كما نقّيت الثّوب الأبيض من الدّنس وأبدله داراً خيراً من داره وأهلا خيراً من أهله وزوجاً خيراً من زوجه وأدخله الجنّة و اعذه من عذاب القبر و عذاب النار
Brother Joe was a student of working class struggle . He learned from his youth in the struggles in Algiers . When Joe went to school in Paris he went and helped organized the biggest strike France had ever seen . The worker’s movement in Paris almost took power where the Workers and their unions with community groups would have been the Government instead of the corporation owners and their agents . Brother Joe came to the USA and joined Unite-Here Local26 at the old Howard Johnson”s in Cambridge he helped organize the union there . He later Joined Harvard With his friend from St. Kitts Winston Maynard . Joe became a relentless fighter; telling us he seen that workers when organized can beat any Owner for they are so greedy and wretched to workers and our communities . Joe would at the end of a long sometimes real long conversation Joe would end with “If we stay united and keep fighting we will win. WE LOVE YOU JOE!