Monday, November 21, 2011

Occupy Oakland General Strike - Occupy Oakland - Strike

UAW 2865 Resolution with Support regarding Occupy Oakland General Strike

Whereas UAW 2865 witnesses firsthand how the particular 1% (in the sort of UC Regents as well as major UC executives) conspire to help steal ever more coming from students and also staff as a result of recurring tuition hikes, lessened services, layoffs, amplified workloads, freelancing along with austerity measures; and

Whereas most people stand for the protection under the law associated with everybody to being wage work having reasonably priced health care, quality education, a words on the job, fair housing along with a well-funded open sector, and

WHEREAS: Unemployment is a highest it is because this Great Depression, plus folks are staying unemployed extended now than while in the Great Depression, 1/3 associated with California properties are usually underwater, 1/5 on the foreclosures nation-wide come in California, in addition to San Franciscans alone have misplaced practically $6 million around property value costing his or her urban center more than $74 million, and

WHEREAS: Occupy Wall Street is usually a people-powered motion which started out on September 17, 2011 around Manhattan ersus Financial District, and provides pass on for you to over 100 places with the particular United States and also actions with around 1,500 cities globally. The motion is definitely encouraged by well-known uprisings in Egypt plus Tunisia, as well as the Wisconsin protests sooner this year, in addition to goals to be able to uncover the way the richest 1% associated with consumers are composing the actual principles of your illegal world-wide economy of which is actually foreclosing with some of our future, and

WHEREAS: the particular Occupy Wall Street features galvanized open public verse including a broad-based movements protesting the corrosive electricity associated with main bankers and multinational organizations covering the democratic process, along with the role associated with Wall Street inside generating an fiscal failure containing caused the best downturn with generations, and

WHEREAS: the particular National AFL-CIO plus Change to Win coalitions possess endorsed Occupy Wall Street, a growing number of buy and sell partnership activists possess joined this movement, the two as man or women workers, and as a part of an increasing number of International and Local marriage contingents joining their unique fights for the larger requires on the motion intended for economical justice plus fairness, and

WHEREAS: Union and Community agencies mutually happen to be in the coalition because the crash of the economy to be able to induce Banks to cover criminal court expert services in order to renegotiate predatory loans with household owners, governments, plus non-profit agencies, and

WHEREAS: court security officers have used excessive drive against tranquil protesters during Oscar Grant (Frank Ogawa) Plaza and violated their initial variation privileges when greater than five-hundred open public protection representatives with guns aimed at the particular occupiers, tore down his or her tents in a very predawn raid on October 25; and

WHEREAS: public safe practices representatives to the event of Oct. 25 once more used abnormal drive hurting plus endangering this lives with demonstrators whenever they marched to the evening with October 25th that will protest the actual violence from the occupiers that will morning;

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that this union will promote their users in addition to allies that will react in help with Nov. 2 behavior and also honors since a Sanctioned Union Strike Line OccupyOakland along with Occupy Wall Street, induces partnership people as well as Local unions that will be involved in the particular movement, will actively assist any kind of unionized or maybe non-unionized worker whom refuses to help separate up, raid, or maybe confiscate the belongings with protesters, and calls on unions symbolizing DPW trades-people not to engage in these kinds of activity, and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that union as well as it's allies stand together with some of our sisters and brothers regarding Occupy Wall Street, OccupyOakland, in addition to metropolitan areas along with neighborhoods in the united states that are fed up of an unfair economy of which succeeds with regard to 1% with Americans protected huge major folks find it difficult to pay off the bills, get an education, plus increase their families, and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED in which UAW 2865 recognizes that will protest movements, just like boxing techinque outlines in addition to organizing campaigns, shouldn't have curfews, may not be 9-5 activities, plus with doing this UAW 2865 identifies but will function to protect your right pertaining to OccupyOakland for you to protest 24 hours a day, on-site and with proper protection including food, health care supplies, water, in addition to tents, and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that UAW 2865 includes recommended all of which will continue to recommend and also turn-out affiliates to help OccupyOakland rallies plus events, to supply in-kind donations like tents in addition to food, and

BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED which UAW 2865 ties its sister unions inside the UC Berkeley Labor Coalition in forwarding this kind of resolution with regard to adoption to some other area unions and also core toil bodies.

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