Protest U.S. intervention in the Middle East!
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The movement also emerges at a time of growing social polarization, economic insecurity stemming from capitalist decline, and a general disillusionment with the twin parties of the rich.
In this regard, it is not unusual that the San Francisco Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO, a sponsor of Jan. 26, has invited Tony Mazzochi (Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers secretary-treasurer) to speak at a labor-sponsored meeting on independent labor politics on Jan. 8. Mazzochi was one of the first trade unionists to call for the immediate wihdrawal of U.S. troops from Vietnam.
Unifying demands
"Bring the Troops Home Now!" is the unifying demand of the Jan. 26 actions, with two additional slogans, "No War in the Middle East" and "Money for Human Needs Not War," forming the political package that has united the movement as in no time in the recent past.
Local affiliates of the 160 organizations that attended the Dec. 1 New York City national conference that initiated the Jan. 26 actions have formed city-wide and regional coalitions to plan building actions the weekend of Jan. 19-21.
More than 100 activists met in Cleveland, Ohio, last week in a new formation which fused the major forces of previously competing peace and anti-intervention groups to prepare for Jan. 26. Weekly meetings of the Emergency Committee to Stop the War in Eva Akesson