Longshore Caucus calls
for Iraq war protest at ports on May 1 No
Peace, No Work Holiday
Nearly one
hundred Longshore Caucus delegates voted on February 8 to
support a resolution calling for an eight-hour "stop-work"
meeting during the day-shift on Thursday, May 1 at ports in CA,
OR and WA to protest the war by calling for the immediate, safe
return of U.S. troops from Iraq.
“The Caucus has
spoken on this important issue and I’ve notified the employers
about our plans for 'stop work' meetings on May 1,” said ILWU
International President Bob McEllrath.
Caucus
delegates, including several military veterans, spoke
passionately about the importance of supporting the troops by
bringing them home safely and ending the War in Iraq.
Concerns were also raised about the growing cost of the war that
has threatened funding for domestic needs, including education
and healthcare.
Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz and Harvard
economist Linda J. Bilmes recently estimated that the true
cost of the War in Iraq to American taxpayers will exceed 3
trillion dollars--a figure they describe as "conservative."
The union’s International Executive Board recently endorsed
Barack Obama, citing his opposition to the War in Iraq as one of
the key factors in the union's decision-making process.
Caucus delegates are democratically elected representatives from
every longshore local who set policy for the Longshore Division.
ILWU International President Robert McEllrath has written
letters to President John Sweeney of the AFL-CIO and President
Andy Stern of the Change-to-Win Coalition, and to the
presidents of the
International Transport Workers Federation and the
International Dockworkers Council to inform them of the
ILWU's plans for May 1.
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A visionary
and a far-sighted person, Jagdish Gandhi has been
building bridges of peace across the globe for nearly
sixty years. For his long-standing contributions to
education in peace, the United Nations awarded the
prestigious UNESCO Prize for Peace Education in the year
2002 to his unique creation - the City Montessori
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The first
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over 32,000 students. CMS was awarded 'UNESCO Prize for
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and tolerance. Having failed to move the politicians of
the world, the second step he took was to approach the
World Judiciary as he believes that World Judiciary is
the only and the last hope for survival of humanity and
therefore he is organizing every year for the past seven
years, the World Judiciary Summits and the International
Conferences of Chief Justices of the World of which the
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among U.S. and Iranian religious leaders discussing peace
Tehran,
Iran
, February 20, 2007 – Religious
leaders from the
U.S.
and
Iran
met here today to discuss the importance of faith groups finding common
ground in peacemaking, particularly in light of the growing political
tensions between the
U.S.
and
Iran
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