------------------------- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the April 3, 2003 issue of Workers World newspaper -------------------------
UNIONISTS MARCH IN NYC PROTEST
Special to Workers World New York
Mary Lewis, a member of UAW Local 2110 at Columbia University, explained why she came. "I was sitting home last night, watching the horrible devastation of Baghdad, crying. I saw them plant the American flag in Iraqi soil." Ms. Lewis, a 63-year old African American who hadn't protested for a long time, continued, "I knew then that I'd have to march against this colonial war."
A number of union locals and district councils organized official contingents in the massive March 22 anti-war demonstration in New York, among them UAW Region 9A; the Professional Staff Con gress of the City University of New York, AFT Local 2334; Local 100 of the TWU, which represents workers in New York City's public transit; AFSCME District Council 37, representing many city workers, District Council 1707, representing social service workers, Local 1930, the Library Guild, and Local 2626, Electronic Data Processors; and SEIU 1199, representing health and hospital workers;.
People doing similar work marched together in Doctors and Nurses Against the War, the Progressive Librarians Guild, Teachers Against the War--a dissident caucus within the United Federation of Teachers, whose leaders support the war--and Educators against the War.
New York City Labor Against the War, which originated the call for labor to come out for March 22, also had a separate contingent.
Thousands of union members came out to protest this vicious, racist war. Many of the union members in the contingent felt it was a good start in drawing their unions into the anti-war movement. n
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