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‘Hands off Social Security!’
Published May 4, 2005 5:20 PM
Chanting “Social Security, yes! War profits, no!” about 30
demonstrators challenged Vice President Dick Cheney at an invitation-only town
hall meeting on Social Security held at Campbell High School in Smyrna, Ga., May
2. The protest garnered media coverage on all the local television stations as
well as in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The demonstrators, who ranged
in age from high school students to retired seniors, made the connections
between the campaign of lies of the Bush administration leading up to the Iraq
War, the war profiteering of companies like Halli burton—Cheney’s
former roost—off the blood of U.S. soldiers and Iraqi citizens, and the
attacks on programs that benefit workers and the poor like Social
Security.
The demonstration was organized on short notice by the Georgia
Peace and Justice Coalition and the International Action Center.
On May 3,
Bill Lucy, secretary-treasurer of national AFSCME and leader of the Coalition of
Black Trade Unionists, was the featured speaker at a community forum on Social
Security held at First Iconium Baptist Church in Atlanta. He issued a call for
all workers—employed, retired, unemployed, disabled or in school—to
fight any attempts to privatize Social Security, which would send billions of
dollars of workers’ money to Wall street brokers.
—Dianne
Mathiowetz
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