“No Peace, No Work!”
That’s the message being sent by the ILWU, the West Coast-based International Longshore and Warehouse Union.
I only found out about this from a diary over at Planet Orange by Sarge in Seattle, and if this event has already been featured and discussed here, I apologize. I also apologize in advance if I am violating site standards by reposting the Kossack’s diary here; but this is so important I felt I should, as I would not plagiarize his and rewrite it as if it were my own. So here goes…
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War Protest: Westcoast Longshoremen to Close Ports
by Sarge in Seattle [Subscribe]
Fri Apr 25, 2008 at 04:40:12 PM EDT
I received this letter by email. The letter is a couple of weeks old, so, if this is old news to anyone, my apologies. I hadn’t heard anything about this, so I thought others might want to know.
Jack Heyman
Wednesday, April 9, 2008SF Chronicle Submissions
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Sunday InsightWhile millions of people worldwide have marched against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and last week’s New York Times/CBS News poll indicated that 81 percent believe the country is headed in the wrong direction – key concerns being the war and the economy – the war machine inexorably grinds on. Amid this political atmosphere, dockworkers of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union have decided to stop work for eight hours in all U.S. West Coast ports on May 1, International Workers’ Day, to call for an end to the war.
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