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New York unionists meet to mobilize against Iraq war
Published Sep 21, 2007 11:35 PM
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Mike Gimbel and
Brenda Stokely.
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Brenda Stokely made a strong appeal to unionists gathered at the AFSCME
District Council 37 building in downtown Manhattan on Sept. 18 to go to their
unions and community organizations and mobilize against the continued
occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan to end the horrors inflicted on the peoples
of those countries. Stokely is a former president of DC 1707 in New York and
currently a leader of NYC Solidarity Committee for Katrina/Rita Evacuees.
Speakers included Walter Sinche, a leader of the May 1st Immigrant Rights
Coalition in New York representatives of the Troops Out Now Coalition, and
other trade unionists from the region. Former Local 375 Labor and Political
Activities Chair Mike Gimbel organized and chaired the meeting, which pledged
support for the Sept. 29 mobilization in Washington.
—Report and photo by John Catalinotto
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