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Via Workers World News Service
Reprinted from the Dec. 28, 2000
issue of Workers World newspaper
-------------------------Unions endorse SF counter-inaugural
J20 is not just in Washington.
In San Francisco, the International Action Center has called for a West Coast Inauguration Day protest. There will be a noon rally at Civic Center Plaza followed by a march.
On Dec. 18, the San Francisco Labor Council passed a resolution endorsing the San Francisco and Washington counter-inaugural demonstrations and urging unions across the country to get involved. The resolution reads in part:
"George W. Bush was selected president after an extremely close election marred by the disenfranchisement of many voters in Florida, including thousands of African American voters, which has led many to believe Bush essentially stole the election with the complicity of the U.S. Supreme Court and the Republican-controlled Statehouse and Legislature in Florida, and to view his presidency as therefore illegitimate...
"Bush has earned the nickname 'Governor Death' and worldwide condemnation for his role in finalizing the death-row executions of more people in Texas under his watch than in the other 49 states combined. ...
"Bush has pledged to pursue 'globalization' policies, such as the expansion of NAFTA, cutbacks in social services, privatization of publicly owned resources at home and abroad, and other policies that will destroy good jobs, impoverish the working class and result in more and more unemployed workers coming under the control of a repressive criminal justice and prison system...
"Mass demonstrations to protest Bush's inauguration will be held on Jan. 20, 2001, in Washington and San Francisco, with hundreds of community, labor, civil rights and religious organizations participating. ... The demonstration will denounce other Bush policies and counter them with demands to abolish the death penalty and grant a new trial for death-row prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal."
For more information on the West Coast protest, call (415) 821-6545
or visit the Web site www.actionsf.org.--Workers World
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