[Peace-discuss] AFSCME, AFT, SEIU: Back Keith Ellison for DNC Chair

[C. G. Estabrook]

http://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/4857346/tdest_id/106833


> On Nov 16, 2016, at 4:51 PM, Just Foreign Policy <info at justforeignpolicy.org> wrote:
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> Dear Supporter,
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> Urge AFSCME, AFT and SEIU to support Rep. Keith Ellison to lead the Democratic National Committee. 
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> Take Action
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> Bernie Sanders [1], Elizabeth Warren [2], MoveOn [3], CWA [4], and National Nurses United [5] agree: The next head of the Democratic National Committee should be Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison.
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> Urge AFSCME, AFT, and SEIU to support Keith Ellison to lead the DNC by signing our petition at MoveOn.
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> Keith Ellison has been a champion against the TPP and failed trade policies like NAFTA that have hurt workers who voted for Trump [6]. Ellison led the fight of the Sanders forces in the Democratic Platform Committee to adopt explicit opposition to the TPP as part of the Democratic Platform. Ellison's main opponents in the DNC race are corporate lobbyists. [7]
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> Lee Saunders of AFSCME, Randi Weingarten of AFT, Mary Kay Henry of SEIU are all members of the Democratic National Committee and members of the Democratic Platform Committee. They opposed adding explicit opposition to the TPP to the Democratic Platform. [8] 
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> Urge AFSCME, AFT, SEIU to support Keith Ellison for DNC chair and oppose corporate lobbyists by signing and sharing our petition. 
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> References:
> 1. http://thehill.com/homenews/house/305435-sanders-endorses-keith-ellison-for-dnc-chairman
> 2. http://www.politico.com/tipsheets/playbook/2016/11/scoop-schumer-backs-ellison-for-dnc-trump-world-begins-to-float-cabinet-secretaries-schock-indicted-targeted-victory-splits-in-two-bday-tucker-bounds-217350
> 3. http://commondreams.org/newswire/2016/11/10/moveon-statement-dnc-leadership
> 4. http://www.cwa-union.org/news/releases/cwa-endorses-keith-ellison-for-chair-of-democratic-national-committee
> 5. http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/11/11/amid-dnc-reckoning-ellison-emerges-progressive-antidote-trump
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> 6. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lori-wallach/latest-tpp-peril-presiden_b_12883024.html; http://fair.org/home/the-final-bill-for-tpp-may-include-trump/; http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/economy-budget/305330-dems-need-alternative-to-four-decades-of-neoliberal-failure
> 7. https://theintercept.com/2016/11/15/race-for-next-dnc-chair-is-between-americas-first-muslim-congressman-and-two-corporate-lobbyists/
> 8. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/07/09/sanders-loses-on-trade-at-democratic-platform-meeting/; http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-democrats-platform-bernie-sanders-20160710-snap-story.html; https://www.thenation.com/article/democrats-toughen-trade-stance-but-reject-formal-opposition-to-the-tpp/
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