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Dear CLUW e-Activist: At our national convention in Los Angeles which ended on October 17th, CLUW delegates passed two resolutions about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. CLUW formally opposed the Iraq War at our 2005 Convention, and affiliated with US Labor Against the War, the first organization within the American labor movement ever organized around opposition to US foreign policy. Carol Rosenblatt, CLUW Executive Director, serves on the Steering Committee of USLAW, and Kathy Black, Philadelphia Chapter President, is a national Co-Convenor.One resolution pledges solidarity with Iraqi workers who are fighting for the legal right to organize. It also calls for an international campaign, and urges signatures on a petition to Secretary of State Clinton, which is available at ww.uslaboragainstwar.org. Please sign it! The other resolution supports Rep. Jim McGovern's (D-MA) HR 2404, requiring that an exit strategy from Afghanistan be submitted to Congress by the Administration. It urges diplomacy over military combat, and that war funding be used to fix our own economy and help Afghans rebuild their country. Very few labor organizations in the US have passed a resolution regarding our presence in Afghanistan. Once again, CLUW is in the forefront! Both these resolutions will be available on the CLUW website shortly along with all other convention resolutions adopted by the delegates.
Attend the US Labor Against the War AssemblyUS Labor Against the War will be holding its Third National Assembly in Chicago, December 4-6, 2009. All the details are available on the home page of its website, ww.uslaboragainstwar.org. We urge more CLUW Chapters to affiliate with USLAW, and to send delegates to this meeting which will set the course for USLAW's work for the next two years. In attendance will be Union representatives from Iraq and Pakistan, Iraq and Afghanistan War veterans, policy experts, and anti-war unionists from around the country. Please join us!!!
Karen J. See |
