S.F. forum weighs May Day, Obama

Monica Moorehead, managing editor of Workers World newspaper, and Clarence Thomas, International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 10 executive board member in San Francisco and national co-chair of the Million Worker March, both spoke at a Workers World Party meeting June 14, held at the Women’s Building in San Francisco. Thomas spoke on the significance of the West Coast Longshore Workers’ Shutdown Against the War this past May Day and his union’s militant history of shutting down the docks against all forms of injustice.

Moorehead spoke on why all currents within the progressive movement should be prepared to defend Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama and his spouse, Michelle Obama, against vile, racist attacks which also target the Black community. She also explained why neither Obama’s platform nor that of Republican presidential nominee John McCain will solve the economic crisis of foreclosures, health care, rising food and gas prices at home or the war abroad.

Following the meeting, copies of “Marxism, Reparations, and the Black Freedom Struggle” were sold and then the books were signed by Thomas and Moorehead, who were contributors to it.

—Report & photo by Tova Fry