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Re: RAT Hello Seattle, i must be going...



Glad                 cjeffriesseanet.com  heard and reported black woman 
labor leader
in Seattle: 
>  "We have achieved a victory this week... we have taken back our streets.  
>  We have showed the WTO and the world that our voices will not be 
>  silenced.  They hit us with tear gas, and they could not silence us.  
>  They shot at us with rubber bullets, and they could not silence us.  They 
>  set up curfews and zones, and we broke right through 'em!"
>  
>  That is the last thing I was led to expect a labor union spokesperson to 
>  say.  I hope I'm conveying something of what a powerful statement that 
>  was for her to make today.
>