[Peace] Fwd: [SRRTAC-L:7985] Petition to AFL-CIO on Palestine crisis (fwd)

[Al Kagan]

For the unionists amongst us.

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>Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 15:28:06 -0400 (EDT)
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>Subject: [SRRTAC-L:7985] Petition to AFL-CIO on Palestine crisis (fwd)
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>AFL-CIO Leaders Don't Speak for Me in Their Support of Israeli 
>Actions in Palestine.
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>To:  AFL-CIO Executive Council and Officers
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>The Executive Board
>AFL-CIO
>Washington, D.C.
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>We, the undersigned labor unionists, deplore the fact that AFL-CIO 
>President John Sweeney recently associated U.S. labor's name with 
>support for the Israeli invasion of the West Bank which has resulted 
>in the widespread death and destruction of the Palestinian people 
>and property.
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>We are shocked that President Sweeney appeared at a Washington, D.C. 
>press conference with Bush administration officials, and among 
>others, Benjamin Netanyahu of the Israeli extreme right-wing.
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>It would be more appropriate for the highest official in U.S. labor 
>to be meeting with peace groups in Israel and the United States. It 
>would be a sign of great leadership to call for teach-ins in every 
>U.S. Labor Council so that workers could learn and debate the 
>complexities of the Mid-east crisis.
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>We fail to see how collaboration with U.S. foreign policy in this 
>horrific aggression can advance the cause of world peace or improve 
>the lives of the U.S. people or the Israeli and Palestinian people.
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>All the world knows the murderous assault on the Palestinians with 
>the most modern tanks, helicopters, and missiles is financed by our 
>taxes. It is imperative that our labor leadership demand the 
>demilitarization of our economy and specifically educate workers on 
>the perils of an almost $400 billion military budget that undermines 
>funding for our schools, housing, health care, and social security. 
>The present situation invites the U.S. military industrial complex 
>to reach into every corner of the globe to protect U.S. 
>multi-national corporations as they loot the world's resources and 
>exploit foreign labor.
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>We recognize that to dissent from U.S. foreign policy would be an 
>act of courage. It would also be an electrifying act of hope for 
>working and poor people everywhere who have so much to lose from 
>what appears to be permanent war.
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>Sincerely,
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Al Kagan
African Studies Bibliographer and Professor of Library Administration
Africana Unit, Room 328
University of Illinois Library
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