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redvet wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:43:50 -0700, news@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
> PORT WORKERS MAY DAY ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Clarence Thomas and Jack
> Heyman, Co-Chairs
> Phone: 510.333.4301 * Fax: 510.215.2800
> Email: news@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> MEDIA ALERT
>
> April 23, 2008
>
> The Port Workers May Day Organizing Committee is proud to announce
> that Cynthia McKinney, former Congresswoman from Georgia; Danny
> Glover, renowned actor and political activist; and Cindy Sheehan,
> Gold
> Star mother whose son Casey was killed in Iraq four years ago, will
> be
> among the featured speakers at our "No Peace, No Work"
> Holiday mobilization in San Francisco on May 1st.
>
> The West Coast longshore workers have voted to stop work to protest
> against the ongoing war and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan. The
> Port Workers May Day Organizing Committee and the other rank-and-file
> committees in ports up and down the West Coast have received pledges
> of support from labor councils, local unions and anti-war,
> anti-racist, immigrant and other social justice organizations across
> the country and around the globe.
>
> The "March with Longshore Workers" will assemble at 10:30 a.m. on
> Thursday, May 1st, at the Longshore (ILWU) hall at Mason & Beach, and
> will march down the Embarcadero for a noon rally at Justin Herman
> Plaza.
>
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>
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> veterans of all eras, reservists, and active duty GIs.
> 2. VVAWAI has vowed to bring the lessons paid for in blood into direct
> opposition to any wars or war preparations by the U.S. and all
> imperialist powers, East or West.
> 3. VVAWAI upholds all resistance to imperialist war by GIs,
> reservists, veterans and the anti-war/peace movement.
> 4. Just as we upheld the righteous struggle of the people of South
> East Asia fighting for their liberation, we uphold the just struggles
> of people around the world as they fight for their liberation today.
> 5. As veterans, we know that racism and the subjugation of women are
> twin pillars of crimes against humanity. We vow to oppose these and
> all other forms of oppression.
>
> VVAWAI
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