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Progressive Labor Needs To Stand Up for Barack Obama

Friday, August 22, 2008

Believe it or not, we might be losing this election right now. Barack Obama is not going to coast to an easy victory here in Wisconsin or nationally. Sure, the American people are fed up with George Bush - and John McCain is promising four more years of Bush policy. But Obama still has to overcome one of the most insidious forces of the dark side of America's flawed humanity: racism.

And we need to be honest - it might even be affecting the men and women of organized labor. While we as an institution are among the most integrated justice-oriented, there are some workers that have been swayed by the path of least resistance in politics that is modern American racism. So we need to stand up to confront that.

Progressive labor that is with Obama in this election needs to stand up, step up, and educate our brothers and sisters about what really matters in this election and why racism is just fundamentally at odds with the principles of justice and solidarity that underpin the labor movement.

There are some fine leaders in the labor movement today, but few are better than the president of the United Mine Workers and Secretary-Treasurer of the AFL-CIO, Rich Trumka. In two videos, Rich addresses these two issues - why this election is vitally important and why Barack Obama is the right choice for workers, and the potential reality and divisiveness of racism.

Racism is real in the labor movement, and it's just plain wrong...

posted by TAA Political Action

 

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