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Dockworkers Shut Down West Coast Ports To Protest the War

JB Powell | Posted 05.09.2008 | Home

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JB Powell

The West Coast Dockworkers peace strike had a different edge, reminiscent of the days when the labor movement could and would affect this country's daily business to get its points across.

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The Stones Of Those West Coast Dockworkers

Leonce Gaiter | Posted 05.09.2008 | Home

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Leonce Gaiter

Democrats have been ineffectual in ending the war. The striking dockworkers remind us that change demands taking risks and making sacrifices and that you have to be mightily angry or full of conviction to do either.

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