WWP campaign reaches California, Tennessee
Special to Workers World
If workers ran this country, there would be good housing and
free, quality health care and education for all. Instead, we
have poverty, racism and a bloody war in Iraq for corporate
profits that is eating up billions of dollars every week.
Neither George W. Bush nor John Kerry will change that.
Representatives of the Workers World Party election campaign
brought this fighting socialist message to a number of venues
in mid-October.
Presidential candidates John Parker and Teresa Gutierrez
were in the Bay Area on Oct. 13, accompanied by LeiLani Dowell,
a member of WWP who is also the Peace and Freedom Party
candidate for Congress in San Francisco's Eighth Congressional
District. They brought their campaign message of "Money for
jobs, not war in Iraq" to a group of students at Berkeley High
School and then attended a "meet the candidates" event at the
African American Art and Culture Complex in San Francisco.
Later that week, the candidates flew to Washington to attend
the Million Worker March. Parker told a rally in front of the
Hotel Washington that the low-paid hotel workers, who are
fighting for a better contract, were setting an example for all
of labor.
On Oct. 15 at Eastern Tennessee State Uni versity in Johnson
City, Workers World Editor Deirdre Griswold, herself a former
WWP presidential candidate, represented the Parker-Gutierrez
campaign at a debate of third-party candidates org anized by
the Green Party. She urged the largely student audience to not
just vote but to get involved in the many struggle movements
that are challenging the reactionary policies of big business
and its two-party system.
Reprinted from the Oct. 28, 2004, issue of
Workers World newspaper
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