Hundreds Of Thousands Rally and March Against The War in the US
By Steve Zeltzer - January 27, 2007
Hundreds of thousands of people rallied and march in the US today to demand and end to the US war on Iraq and against the Bush administration's plan to escalate the war with additional 22,000 troops.
The demonstrations, which took place in dozens of cities, were also joined for the first time nationally by the AFL-CIO. Representing AFL-CIO president John Sweeney, Fred Mason, President of the Maryland AFL-CIO and a leader of the US Labor Against the War called on Bush to "resist the bullying of President Bush" and called on the Congress to "stop funding efforts directed towards war".
He along with AFSCME President Gerald McEntee, NEA President Reg Weaver as well as SEIU president Andy Stern have all spoken out against the war escalation but have done very little to mobilize their membership. In fact, the Washington rally would have swelled by hundreds of thousands of workers if these unions which say they are opposed to the war had organized their apparatus to participate with contingents and funding for buses. Only a small number of locals such as SEIU 1199 and the NY UFT supported busses going to the demonstration in D.C. For more information please click here: www.transportworkers.org
Posted at January 30, 2007 03:37 PM