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"The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people." Cesar Chavez |
:: Friday, May 14, 2004 ::
‘Women of steel’ vow to oust Bush By Tim Wheeler, People's Weekly World
Mother Jones, the legendary labor agitator, made an unexpected appearance May 2 at the “Women of Steel” election conference here aimed at ousting George W. Bush from the White House next Nov. 2.
Peering over her spectacles and wagging her finger at the 500 labor union women in the Omni-Shoreham Hotel ballroom, she exclaimed, “I’m not here to be a humanitarian. I’m here to be a hell-raiser.”
Actually, it was Sharon Stiller, assistant to the president of the United Steelworkers of America (USWA) and first woman to sit on the union’s executive board. She was dressed up as Mary Harris Jones, the Irish-born “Miners’ Angel,” the spirit of fightback for exploited workers in the early decades of the last century.
Clearly, the crowd was in a hell-raising mood. Most delegates wore lapel buttons calling on voters to dump Bush. They applauded every call for his removal.------------------------------------------- posted 6:40 AM :: reference link ::
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