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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> </span><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:left'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>In my opinion, the best resolution on the issue was passed by Painters Local 10 in Portland last August. Unfortunately, the left ignored it. But here it is again:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS","serif"'>International Union of Painters and Allied Trades </span></b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS","serif"'>LOCAL UNION NO. 10 </span></b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS","serif"'>11105 N.E. SANDY BLVD. </span></b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS","serif"'>PORTLAND, OREGON 97220 </span></b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS","serif"'>Website: <a href="http://www.iupatdc5.org"><span style='color:blue'>www.iupatdc5.org</span></a> </span></b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS","serif"'>PHONE: (503) 257-0589 </span></b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>● </span><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS","serif"'>FAX: (503) 262-5358 </span></b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>● </span><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS","serif"'>OOWL: (503) 262-5347<br>__________________________________________________</span></b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPS","serif"'>No Support to the Democrats, Republicans, or Any Party of the Bosses </span></b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:left'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"'>Whereas the bosses have two parties to represent their class while the millions of working people have none, and </span><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:left'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"'>Whereas the Democratic president Barack Obama sent the U.S. Coast Guard to enforce scabbing against the International Longshore and Warehouse Union during the 2013-14 lock-out of northwest dock workers, and </span><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:left'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"'>Whereas the Democratic governor Kate Brown opposed and undercut the movement for a $15 minimum wage across Oregon, and </span><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:left'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"'>Whereas in 2014 Democrats in Congress joined with Republicans to pass a disastrous pension "reform," allowing the bosses to escape their obligations and cheat our retirees, and </span><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:left'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"'>Whereas the two presidencies of the Democrat Barack Obama have been eight years of unending war in the Middle East, North Africa and Asia, causing untold human suffering, millions of refugees, and attacks on our democratic rights at home, and </span><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:left'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"'>Whereas the Democratic Party in power has deported some 5 million immigrants, a record, and </span><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:left'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"'>Whereas across the country, from Oakland to Baltimore, police under Democratic mayors regularly murder black men and women with impunity, and </span><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:left'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"'>Whereas the 2016 presidential election offers us the "choice" between a raving, bigoted clown and a career representative of Wall Street, and </span><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:left'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"'>Whereas the Democratic vice-presidential candidate, Virginia governor Tim Kaine, supports union- busting "right to work" laws, and </span><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:left'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"'>Whereas Democrats and Republicans are and have always been strike-breaking, war-making parties of the bosses, and </span><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:left'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"'>Whereas so long as the labor movement supports one or another party of the bosses, we will be playing a losing game, therefore be it </span><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:left'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"'>Resolved that IUPAT Local 10 does not support the Democrats, Republicans, or any bosses' parties or politicians, and Resolved that we call on the International Union to repudiate its endorsement of Hillary Clinton for president, and Resolved that we call on the labor movement to break from the Democratic Party, and build a class- struggle workers party </span><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:left'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","serif"'>Approved at the August 17, 2016 Regular Meeting of the Membership </span><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left;background:white'><i><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The board of directors of the nurses in Minnesota, MNA, “calls upon the NNU, [the National Nurses Union] the AFL-CIO and the wider labor movement to start an intense discussion about workplace education and information meetings and protest action on May Day, May 1, 2017, including a discussion within the AFL-CIO about a call for a nationwide strike that day.” </span></i><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left;background:white'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left;background:white'><i><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>In Philadelphia, the nurses organized in TUHNA, passed a resolution committing to “initiate a discussion within PASNAP,” their statewide union in Pennsylvania, “about the concrete steps necessary to build the resistance against the new administration’s rightwing agenda and to pivot that defensive struggle to an offensive one to win improved Medicare for All.”</span></i><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left;background:white'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left;background:white'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Small beginnings, I know, but we have to start somewhere. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>