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STOP THE WAR! END THE FUNDING!
PSC DELIVERS 1,300 PETITIONS & RALLIES
AT SENATOR HILLARY CLINTON'S NYC OFFICE
Barbara Bowen and Lenny Dick delivering
1,300 petitions to Clinton aide Cleon EdwardsThursday, May 24, 2007. After a spirited rally and picket line, the PSC delivered 1,300 petitions to Senator Hillary Clinton's NYC office calling for de-funding the war, immediate withdrawal, full veterans' benefits, redirecting tax dollars and money for reconstruction under Iraqi control. The petition was part of a national campaign by U.S. Labor Against the War, an organization of 180 union locals and several state federations and municipal labor coalitions representing over 4 million trade unionists.
Later in the day, Senator Clinton became one of only 14 senators to vote AGAINST* supplemental funding for the war requested by the Bush administration. A large and growing anti-war movement has put increasing pressure on the Democratic congress -- and will continue to do so until the war is de-funded and the troops are brought home.
*Four Democratic presidential candidates in Congress voted against the supplemental funding -- Clinton, Dodd, Kucinich and Obama. A fifth, Biden, voted for it. Click here to see how your representative and senators voted.
"Stop the war! -- chanting loud and clear.
Click image to see flier
Picket line.
"Bring the Troops Home Now!" --
Banner of U.S. Labor against the War.
Two generation march against war.
UFTers to Stop the War join the rally.
If you fund it, you own it --Code Pink joins the rally.
Kathe Burick, City College of San Francisco (AFT
#2121) and Barbara Bowen address the rally.
