Clinton the "Phantom Liberal", or, the utility of surveys

Michael Eisenscher meisenscher at igc.apc.org
Fri May 15 17:37:42 PDT 1998


What this story does not report is that the ten people arrested were all union leaders and they were led by Brian McWilliams, President of the ILWU, who also called for a nation-wide boycott of all Australian beef and produce, and pushed the AFL-CIO leadership to adopt it.

At 08:05 AM 5/15/98 -0700, Nathan Newman wrote:
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
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>>As far as I can tell, there hasn't been any coverage of the Australian
>>wharfies strike in the U.S. corporate media.
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>This is from the April 9 SF CHRONICLE and comes under the "If you don't
like the
>news, make your own" category:
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>SAN FRANCISCO
>Protesters Arrested At Australian Consulate
> Thursday, April 9, 1998
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>Ten picketers were arrested at a maritime labor demonstration outside
>Australia's Consulate in downtown San Francisco yesterday afternoon.
>Police released the protesters without citing them and no charges were filed,
>officers said.
>Police said the arrests were made after a sit-down in front of the doors at One
>Bush Street, where the Australian government has its consulate and trade
office.
>The incident, at 5 p.m., occurred during a protest by about 50 labor
supporters,
>called by the International Transportworkers Federation, a worldwide body of
>waterfront unions, to condemn policies in Australia.
>Unionists said the Australian authorities had assisted Patrick Stevedoring Co.,
>a major dockside employer, in firing 2,100 workers.
>Australian Consul General Joe Hlubucek met with the group's representatives but
>consul representatives would not comment further on the matter.
>Gunnar Lundeberg, president/ secretary treasurer of the Sailors' Union of the
>Pacific, which backed the demonstration, said, ``the Tory government in
>Australia has taken aim at the maritime unions in a general anti-labor
>offensive. Australia's labor traditions are too strong and too connected with
>ours, for us to sit back and watch this happen.''
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