An injury to one is an injury to all On December 1st, the United Steelworkers of America held a rally in conjunction with environmentalists at Seattle's Pier 63. Grabbing his cell phone Judd called Mayor Schell and asked the demonstrators be released into his custody and allowed to take refuge in the Labor Temple. But Schell, under pressure from the Secret Service and under the microscope of international media, refused to budge. The protesters, including many unionists, were handcuffed and hauled off to the county jail. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed.
Labor is the supporter of capital, and deserves the Higher Consideration.
The WTO is undermining National sovereignty and can override laws made by the United States and any other nation. Then we will lose what freedoms we have left and have a much greater problem that will be harder if not impossible to correct. The WTO sets the global corporate economic agenda From the October 1999 Dispatcher, story by Steve Stallone WTO rally pictures Check out pictures of the Dec. 3rd rally in protest of the WTO and the police using teargas and harassing peaceful protesters. WTO rally pictures Check out pictures of the Nov. 30th AFL-CIO rally. Individuals and organizations calling for the complete cancellation of debts of the poorest countries by the end of the year 2000.