[Seattle-editorial] FEATURE PROPOSAL: Labor passes anti-war resolution

[jonathan lawson]

approve.. it's another long one. I guess that's a trend though because I'm 
about to propose some long ones myself...

At 06:36 PM 8/31/2002 -0700, Susan wrote:

>subtitle:  LABOR TAKING A STAND AGAINST BUSH'S WAR ON TERROR
>title: Washington State Labor Council Passes First Statewide Anti-War 
>Resolution
>
>The anti-war movement gained a significant victory last week when the <a 
>href="http://www.seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=17416&group=webcast">first 
>statewide labor resolution against the war on terror</a> was 
>overwhelmingly passed at the <a href="http://www.wslc.org/">Washington 
>State Labor Council</a> convention.
>
>The resolution, titled  <a 
>href="http://www.seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=17418&group=webcast">"A 
>Resolution Against the War, Attacks on Civil Liberties and Cuts in Public 
>Services,"</a> calls for a campaign to repeal the <a 
>href="http://www.eff.org/Privacy/Surveillance/Terrorism_militias/20011025_hr3162_usa_patriot_bill.html">Patriot 
>Act</a>, applied pressure on local and state law enforcement agencies to 
>end their cooperation with FBI <a 
>href="http://www.eff.org/Privacy/Surveillance/Terrorism_militias/">'anti-terrorist' 
>surveillance measures</a>, and the immediate release of immigrants who are 
>being held in the U.S. without due process and/or legal justification.
>
>The American Federations of State County and Municipal Employees <a 
>href="http://home.earthlink.net/~matt304/">(AFSCME) Local 304</a> from 
>Seattle introduced the resolution, after being proposed by rank and file 
>members active in the <a href="http://www.socialism.com/">Freedom 
>Socialist Party</a>. Passage of the resolution is the culmination of work 
>by many, including San Francisco's Labor Committee for Peace and Justice, 
><a href="http://www.globalpolicy.org/wtc/analysis/0927nylabor.htm">New 
>York City Labor Against the War</a>, and Seattle's Organized Labor Against 
>the War. <a href="http://www.coalitionforworldpeace.org/stand.html">A 
>similar resolution</a>, co-sponsored by AFSCME Locals 304 and Local 2626 
>(Los Angeles), garnered about 1,000 votes at the national AFSCME 
>convention in June, 2002 and saw the creation of AFSCME Workers Against 
>the War.
>
>AFSCME Local 304 President Rodolfo Franco said at the event, "I urge other 
>unions and labor councils to pass similar resolutions and send a message 
>to President Bush: Stop wasting billions of taxpayer dollars on military 
>spending and war, money that is urgently needed to fund decent health 
>care, housing, education, job training and social services for millions of 
>unemployed and low income workers and the poor in this country and elsewhere."
>
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