redvet wrote:
> ILWU Strikes for Peace
> [col./speech writ. 4/25/08] (c) '08 Mumia Abu-Jamal
>
>
> It should surprise no one that the mighty ILWU (International
> Longshoreman & Warehouse Union) is in the forefront of this 8-hour
> dock shutdown for peace.
>
> The ILWU's proud and illustrious history is one of supporting
peoples'
> movements, for life, freedom, workers solidarity and immigration
> rights, worldwide!
>
> They remember the stirring words of Eugene V. Debs (socialist labor
> leader and 1900 presidential candidate), who said, almost a century ago
"It is
> the master class that declares war. It is the subject class that fights
the
> battles." For these words, and his antiwar sentiments, Debs was cast
into
> prison.
....and got almost 1 million votes while in prison...
> That the ILWU is echoing his words today is proof of their power and
> truth - 100 years later!
>
> It also proves how little we have moved from the dawn of the 20th
> century, to the dawn of the 21st; for war is still a tool of imperial
power, to
> fuel corporate wealth and global domination.
>
> Who can deny that this is a war for oil?
>
> Who can deny that this is and illegal occupation (that is, in
violation
> of international law), more concerned with what's under the earth, than
for
> the millions living in dread upon it?
>
> For Iraq may not've been a barrel of laughs before the US invasion
and
> occupation, but it's surely hell now.
>
> And Congress, like Nero amidst the fires of Rome, does little more
than
> twiddle its thumbs.
>
> It's labor power that makes the wheels go round - and this powerful
> demonstration of the denial of labor for May Day, for peace and an end
to
> occupation in Iraq is workers' solidarity made real.
>
> Kudos to the ILWU!
>
> For Labor Power, Peace and anti-Imperialism!
>
> *******
>
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