S.F. march points the way forward
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SAN FRANCISCO—The demonstration on downtown Market Street stretched for miles and took two-and-ahalf hours to complete as 50,000 protesters marched to a Civic Center rally co-chaired by Jack Henning, executive secretary-treasurer of the California AFL-CIO, and Pat Norman, a well; known Black lesbian political activist.
It was the largest Bay Area action in recent years. But even more impressive was the wide variety of groups and individuals in the march. Attracted by the broad appeal of the coalition, many thousands were demonstrating for the first time.
Thousands of students swelled the huge anti-apartheid contingent. Many of them had been involved in the recent explosive anti-apartheid activities on Carl Finamore is a member of the staff and the steering committee of the Spring Mobilization. unions gent.
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The dozens groups Am-l several Bay Area campuses [see Socialist Action, page 3].
Seventy-five United Farm Workers proudly carrying their union banners joined 400 members of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's and members of over 50 other in an impressive labor continfirst and by far the largest con, organized around "No U.S. ntion in Central America and the ean.," was by itself larger than protests against U.S. intervenSan Francisco Mime Troupe and of bands, dance, and cultural accompanied the march and contributea to the upocal ana millant nature of the action. In addition to some floats, several buses, driven by union members from the Transport Workers Union and the United Transportation Union, rolled alongside the demonstrators.
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