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Labor’s Allies Make a Difference
Labor
leaders joined Dallas environmentalists from the Sierra Club and Blue Skies
Alliance
for a protest in Ferris Park March 28, 2001
The Sierra
Club and Blue Skies Alliance held a rally in Ferris Park in downtown Dallas on
March 28. Nicole Holt and Katy Hubener blasted President Bush’s environmental
policies while activists dressed as “Bush” and “Big Oil” congratulated one
another. They had a mock $38,015,275,000.00 check made out to “Polluting
industries” from “American taxpayers,” a check list of Bush’s environmental
misdeeds, and a life size inflatable oil pump for a backdrop. The check listed
read, "Thank you Mr. Bush for:
v rolling
back the Clean Air Act
v making
bigger payments to dirty industries
v cutting
money to clean energy
v closed
door energy meetings
v keeping
diesel dirty
v keeping
fuel economy low”
Unionists
and others joined the group. For more information contact www.blueskiesalliance.org.
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Dallas
Peace Activists Set Hot Pace
Pax
Christi leader Joyce Hall led 60 Dallas activists through a series of
religious
services in the downtown area on March 29
Even though
most union leaders pledge their support to President Bush’s war policies, some
of labor’s best allies come from the peace movement. The Dallas Coalition for a
Just Peace has held events on undemocratic globalization and on the sudden
erosion of American civil liberties – both topics that are dear to unionists.
Coalition activists joined Pax Christi for the annual Good Friday "Walk
for Justice" in downtown Dallas on March 29. Sixty activists gathered for
religious services at a long list of corporate and government buildings.
On Earth Day, April 20, some of the activists will
cooperate with environmentalists at an all-day event on Flagpole Hill at White
Rock Lake. Others are going to the April 20 National March on Washington.