Maine Working Families Turn Out to Protest Palin

by via admin, AFL-CIO

Sat, Oct 18, 2008 9:10AM

Friday, October 17, 2008 : John Lawson from USW Local 261, reports on a successful event in Bangor, Maine, in which union members and community allies turned out to protest a visit by vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.

As the parking lot started to fill with protesters, we knew we had done our job getting the word out to people to join us in protesting a visit to Maine by Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Union members included were those from the Communications Workers of America (CWA), United Steelworkers (USW) and SEIU, while allied partners represented the Maine Fair Trade Campaign and students from the College of the Atlantic. USW members from several unions took part: Locals 4-00009, 4-00080, 4-00261 and 4-01188 as well as family members.

Between 175 and 200 people marched to the crossroads at the Bangor International Airport to let the McCain/Palin vice presidential nominee know we are not going to stand for four more years of the same failed policies and lousy trade deals that have cost the workers in Maine more than 24,000 manufacturing jobs.

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§A GOP Campaign to...NoWhere

by DLi

Sun, Oct 19, 2008 12:34AM

With NeoCONs quagmired in 2 illegal wars of aggression, TheoCONs pushing religious fundamentalism in schools & churches, and now the C.E.O.-CONs openly stealing the nation's Treasury, the GOP's "failed state" regime is truly in desperado straits. So the Empire's Capitalist bosses now turn to their Democratic puppeteers to try to salvage its losses. That's why the Big money is on the Obama bandwagon, hoping the tamed "Change" candidate will temper the masses' discontent. Will Capitalism pull out yet another chance to fool the majority, to extend the reign of Imperialism for at least 4 more years? Time will tell.

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