Note that there was virtually no organized labor presence at Saturday's actions, although one AFSCME local did endorse. Not that these folks necessarily respond to being trotted out by their leadership, who are often in hot water with the rank and file for not drawing a hard enough line with management, and with some locals like Teamsters local 743, for being a bunch of mobbed up, brutish crooks as well. On the other hand, I saw a surprising number of people in union jackets, and they clearly came on their own, even tho the projects most associated with relations with their leadership made no effort to get those bases out. This is another really important constituency that the peace movement must speak to.
Re: DEFEAT! β ANTI-WAR PROTESTERS ACQUIESCE TO STATE/POLICE AUTHORITY!
22 Mar 2005
Date Edited: 22 Mar 2005 06:00:42 PM