On Dec 14, 2011, at 7:48 AM, Jim Devine <jdevin...@gmail.com> wrote: > during the Seattle World Trade Organization protests, the > International Longshore and Warehouse Union threatened to shut every > port from Hawaii to Alaska if the city of Seattle didn't let the > protesters they had arrested out of jail. It worked. And for people > like me, unions suddenly became relevant.
The union folks were supposed to have a huge rally outside of downtown Seattle during the WTO, but when the cops started shooting rubber bullets into the crowds union members stopped short on their walk to the rally venue and turned around to go back downtown where the action was. I was in their midst; two blue satin jacketed members of the Steam and Pipefitters Union were walking and talking behind me. I heard one say, "Thomas Jefferson said to err on the side of revolution." Dan Scanlan _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
