[lbo-talk] An Appeal to the U.S. Antiwar Movement

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri May 13 10:27:26 PDT 2005


Marvin Gandall wrote:


>ChuckO:
>
>>A well-organized campaign of civil disobedience could cause
>>significant disruptions, dramatize the fact that resistance is
>>happening, and win a few small victories that are important to
>>morale in the movement. This campaign could organize, for example,
>>union members to strike at ports on both coasts.
>------------------------
>Wow! Quite the example! Has there been any discussion of a general
>dock strike against the war in Iraq within the unions concerned? How
>much support do you detect for it among the workers?

I bet it'd be easier to have American workers load war cargo for free than it would to have them refuse on anti-imperial principle. Maybe I'm wrong.

Doug



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