9/4 Labor & Immigrants Rights March on Market in SF

Labor Day, September 4, 2006, we are having a second, and hopefully bigger and better, labor and immigrants rights march this year in San Francisco on Market Street from the Embarcadero to the Civic Center, with a rally at 10 a.m. and the march at 11 a.m.

For more in this march and the immigrants rights issue, see
http://www.immigrantrights.org/

We have a great peace movement in the Bay Area but it cannot grow without a labor movement as the cause of these endless wars is the capitalist profit motive, which only labor can eliminate. We witnessed 2 milestones this year, the first being a labor strike and march on the international labor day, May Day, when 100,000 marched in San Francisco and about the same in San Jose. No strawberries were picked in the Salinas area that day, many restaurants in San Francisco were closed, meatpacking factories in the Midwest closed, and hundreds of thousands more marched across the nation for the rights of workingclass immigrants, and therefore, the entire workingclass, as an injury to one is an injury to all. That labor strike put an end to all the anti-immigrant scapegoating legislation pending in Congress. The second milestone was on August 12, when the peace movement in the US finally marched against US/Israeli terrorism, with 10,000 marching in San Francisco. Now, we must unite the peace and labor movements to strengthen both.