SAN JOSE, CALIF.
'Bush, Sharon you will see: Palestine will be free!'
Despite a last-minute change in President George W. Bush's
location, 700 protesters came out to the Santa Clara Convention
Center in San Jose, Calif., to confront him as he was whisked
in and out of a Republican fundraiser for millionaire
gubernatorial candidate Bill Simon.
While raising more than $1 million, Bush ranted on about how
his so-called fight against terrorism had to continue.
The protesters across the street came from the environmental
movement, labor unions and the women's rights movement. They
were there to let everyone know that Simon, like Bush, is
against women's right to choose abortion. The biggest
contingent came from the large Arab community living in Santa
Clara County. The most militant of those were Palestinian
women, carrying babies, chanting, "Bush, Sharon, you will see,
Palestine will be free!"
The demonstration was called by the ANSWER--Act Now to Stop
War & End Racism--coalition, American Muslims for Peace and
Justice, the South Bay Labor Council and the Building Trades
Unions.
--Bill Hackwell
Reprinted from the May 9, 2002, issue of
Workers World newspaper
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