Last week, a 40-person group comprised of union bosses and other leaders of Marxist organizations were arrested in Washington, DC.
According to the unabashedly-socialist website People’s World, for several hours, the union bosses and other Marxists sat in their DC jail plotting to ‘remake America.’
In a jail cell in the nation’s capital Thursday, top leaders of 40 powerful labor and progressive groups found they had plenty of time (six hours) to talk and hash out plans for essentially remaking America.
Communications Workers of America President Larry Cohen and Greenpeace Executive Director Phil Redford were among the 40 immigrant rights, labor, faith and community leaders arrested Aug. 1 for bringing traffic to a halt in the streets around Capitol Hill. Protesting what they say are unjust immigration policies, they told House Republicans that they intend to fight relentlessly for a comprehensive bill that benefits 11 million undocumented immigrants.
At a press conference today, Cohen and Radford announced that more than 80 organizations have now joined The Democracy Initiative – a coalition formed earlier this year by the CWA, Greenpeace, the Sierra Club and the NAACP.
The two said the 40 jailed activists agreed strongly yesterday that the coalition’s aims should be getting: big money out of politics; immigration rights; voting rights; and stopping GOP obstruction in Congress. Everyone in the holding cell, they said, was celebrating what they considered at least one victory already against Republican obstructionism – Tuesday’s Senate confirmation of all five of President Obama’s nominees to the National Labor Relations Board and nominees for other Cabinet positions including the Environmental Protection Administration. [Emphasis added.]
Read the rest at People’s World.
