<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Please submit the resolution at the end of this e-mail for consideration for endorsement by the GP of SCC at the next meeting. Thanks.<br><br></div>Sincerely,<br><br></div>JohnThielking<br><div><div>
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<div><div dir="ltr"><font style="font-size:16pt" color="#D24726" size="4"><b>DISRIBUTE WIDELY!</b></font><br><br><div><hr>Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 14:44:20 -0700<br>To: <br>From: <a href="mailto:alanbenjamin@earthlink.net" target="_blank">alanbenjamin@earthlink.net</a><br>
Subject: Organizing Union Opposition to U.S. Intervention in Ukraine . . .<br><br>
<div><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="+1">[please excuse
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<div><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="+1">Dear unionists and
labor activists,</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="+1"><br></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="+1">I thought you might
be interested in the message below regarding U.S. intervention in
Ukraine, which I received this morning from the chairperson of the
Ohio State Labor Party. Please also note the resolution adopted
unanimously by the San Francisco Labor Council that follows the OSLP
statement. The SFLC resolution calls for an end to U.S. intervention
in Ukraine.</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="+1"><br></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="+1">It would be very
important for labor bodies across the country, particularly unions
affiliated with USLAW, to take a stand against the growing U.S.
intervention in Ukraine.</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="+1"><br></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="+1">As many of you may
know, this intervention has involved funding and fomenting a coup
against a democratically elected government (whatever one may think of
that government), earmarking millions upon millions of our tax dollars
toward this end, and now sending U.S. mercenaries to the region.
According to the May 4 issue of the German newspaper<i> Bild</i>, more
than 400 U.S. operatives of Academi (ex-Blackwater) were seen
organizing the massacre of civilians in Eastern Ukraine -- a report
that has not been contradicted by U.S. officials.</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="+1"><br></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="+1">The<i> Wall Street
Journal</i> and other news media have published polls showing that the
overwhelming majority of the American people are opposed to the
continued -- let alone expanded -- U.S. military intervention the
world over; they want our tax dollars to create jobs and provide
vitally needed social services here at home.</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="+1"><br></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="+1">So let's get our
unions and labor councils to pass resolutions against U.S.
intervention in Ukraine, and let's join -- and where possible get our
unions to join -- the demonstrations called by UNAC, ANSWER, UFPJ,
Code Pink and other antiwar groups around this central demand: End
U.S. Intervention in Ukraine Now!</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="+1"><br></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="+1">In
solidarity,</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="+1"><br></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="+1">Alan
Benjamin</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="+1">Labor
activist</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="+1">San Francisco,
Calif.</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="+1">To: U.S. Labor
Against the War (USLAW) Co-Convenors and the rest of the USLAW
Steering Committee</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="+1"><br></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="+1">From: Ohio State
Labor Party (OSLP)</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="+1">Subject:
Ukraine</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="+1"><br></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="+1">Greetings:</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="+1"><br></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="+1">The last paragraph
of the statement on Ukraine adopted by the USLAW Steering Committee on
April 2, 2014 notes, "USLAW officers and Steering Committee will
continue to follow developments in the Ukraine and will issue
additional statements or calls to action as circumstances
require."</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="+1"><br></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="+1">As an affiliate of
USLAW, the OSLP emphatically believes that an additional statement
should be issued now by USLAW that would contain the following
points:</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="+1"><br></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="+1">First, a clear-cut
and unambiguous call for the U.S. government to end its intervention
in Ukraine.</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="+1"><br></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="+1">Second, the
U.S. working class has no stake or interest in intervening in Ukraine
in support of the Kiev regime.</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="+1"><br></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="+1">Third, the
regime in Kiev that Washington is supporting with funds, intelligence
and other forms of aid is anti-working class to the core and is
strongly influenced by the Svoboda Party and other fascist and
neo-Nazi formations.</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="+1"><br></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="+1">Fourth, the
billions of dollars that the U.S. is providing to bolster the Kiev
regime should go instead for jobs, infrastructure, extension of
unemployment compensation, food stamps, education, Social Security,
Medicare, Medicaid and other essential safety net programs at
home.</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="+1"><br></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="+1">Five, that
Washington should stop such provocative actions as deploying U.S.
destroyers in the Black Sea, supporting NATO troop deployments
eastward, stationing jets and missile bases in eight countries
encircling Russia and scheduling U.S./NATO war games in the
region.</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="+1"><br></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="+1">Sixth, all the
polls show the U.S. public's overwhelming opposition to U.S.
intervention in Ukraine.</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="+1"><br></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="+1">Seventh, the
U.S. antiwar movement is united in opposing U.S. intervention in
Ukraine, the latest example being the resolution unanimously adopted
on May 12, 2014 by the San Francisco Labor Council, one of USLAW's
major affiliates. This resolution is being sent to the national
AFL-CIO calling upon it to circulate the resolution widely throughout
the labor movement. (The resolution is re-printed below.)</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="+1"><br></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="+1">Eight, USLAW
should call upon the labor movement to educate, organize and mobilize
to end U.S. intervention in Ukraine.<br>
<br>
Most of these points were not addressed by USLAW's earlier statement.
We believe it is high time that they be addressed now.<br>
<br>
Jerry Gordon</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="+1">Chair,
OSLP</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="+1"><br></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="+1">[The above statement
was unanimously adopted by the OSLP Executive Board on May 18,
2014.]</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="+1"><br></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="+1">cc: Donna Dewitt,
Dennis Serrette, Alan Benjamin, OSLP Executive Board</font><br>
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<div><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="+1"><br></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="+2"><b>Resolution on
Ukraine and Russia</b></font><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="+1"><b><br>
<br>
</b>(adopted unanimously by the Delegates Meeting of the San Francisco
Labor Council, AFL-CIO, on Monday, May 12, 2014)<br>
<br>
Whereas the United States and other Western countries have intervened
in the internal affairs of Ukraine, and behind the uprising are
millions of dollars of our tax money used in the covert campaign to
destabilize and topple the democratically elected former regime,
and<br>
<br>
Whereas this money comes from the federal budget where it competes
directly with funds for human needs programs that directly benefit
education and other services and public sector employees as well as
students and their families, and<br>
<br>
Whereas the Western Powers have historically attempted encirclement
and the weakening of Russia by incorporating Eastern European
countries into NATO, and<br>
<br>
Whereas intervention by Western powers and threats of war are contrary
to the interests of the Ukrainian, Russian, and American people and
undermine peace and stability in the region, and<br>
<br>
Whereas the new Ukrainian government, backed by the United States and
European powers, has a fascist-minded element that threatens much of
the population, and recalls racist, anti-Semitic and xenophobic views
that go against our fundamental values, and<br>
<br>
Whereas fascist movements historically have sought to destroy the
organized labor movement, and</font><br>
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Whereas the region is now a tinder box easily ignited, and<br>
<br>
Whereas war in Europe will have horrific consequences to the world
economy, to the human race and the planet, and<br>
<br>
Whereas a peace oriented, productive economy serves not only the needs
of all faculty and students, union members and all workers, but also
all strata of society, except war-profiteers and the super-rich,<br>
<br>
Therefore be it Resolved that the San Francisco Labor Council urges
the U.S. government to use diplomacy with Russia and Ukraine to work
out a peaceful resolution of the brewing conflict, one that respects
the sovereignty, democratic right to self-determination, and security
of all the peoples of Eastern Europe, and<br>
<br>
Be it Further Resolved that the San Francisco Labor Council urge the
U.S. government to stop all military aid to the new Ukraine
government, and<br>
<br>
Be it Finally Resolved that the San Francisco Labor Council will send
copies of this resolution to Bay Area Congressional Representatives,
Senators Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein, Secretary of State John
Kerry, Senator John McCain, Senator Mitch McConnell, President Barack
Obama, and the national AFL-CIO.<br>
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Submitted by Allan Fisher, AFT 2121<br>
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