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Note: The Socialist Party USA, Greater New York City Local has endorsed this event. SP members should make every effort to come out! --- http://www.newyorksocialists.org
War Resisters League
339 Lafayette Street
New York, NY 10012
www.warresisters.org.
Contacts:
Frida Berrigan 347.683.4928
Todd Eaton 917.620.7781
Ed Hedemann 718.768.7306
February 17, 2006 For Immediate Release
NEW YORK CITY WAR RESISTERS TO HOLD IRAQ WAR FUNERAL MARCH IN BROOKLYN ON PRESIDENT'S DAY 2006
Brooklyn, NY - The New York City Local of the War Resisters League (WRL) will hold a funeral march on Monday, February 20, 2006, to protest the loss of life in the war being waged in Iraq. Gathering across from the corner of Remsen and Court Streets (in front of Brooklyn Borough Hall steps) at 11:30 am on Monday, participants will assemble coffins draped in black and in American flags, representing the Iraqi and Americans killed in the war.

Join the striking Graduate Students at NYU for a rally and picket, Thursday, January 26th, 4pm, in front of Bobst Library.
Unionized teachers and teaching assistants are coming in from all over the country to support their fellow workers at NYU. Come out to show NYU that New York City is a union town, and that we won't tolerate their unilateral decision to ignore the GSOC, who just last year they'd signed a contract with. Now the administration is pulling funding for all striking workers, essentially firing AND expelling them.
Help us demand justice for the strikers! You could be next!
The Socialist Party of New York City strongly supports the right of transit workers to free speech, free assembly and free labor.
We denounce, in the strongest possible terms, the Metropolitan Transportation Agency's callous disregard of the safety and health of transit workers, as well as their unending demands for for wage and benefit cutbacks. We are sickened by the slave plantation politics of Mayor Bloomberg, Governor Pataki and Attorney General Spitzer, who would fine union members from two days' wages up to a quarter of a million dollars each for the nerve of refusing to work without a contract.
As commuters, we recognize and appreciate the hard work and dedication of New York's transit workers. As citizens, we voted in large numbers in favor of the state's transportation bond act - expecting that some of the money we approved would go to fair and equitable pay increases for the workers who keep New York moving. As workers, we insist that if our brothers and sisters in TWU 100 go on strike, then we too will not go to work, or if we do WE WILL WALK.
Statement from Socialist Party USA Vice-Chair Mary Loritz
Stanley "Tookie" Williams' life was taken by the state last night at 12:35pm by way of lethal injection, after spending twenty-four years in prison. Tookie was one of the founding members of the street gang the Crips, and in 1981 was convicted on four counts of murder, for which he maintained his innocence.
He has since denounced gang life and violence and apologized for his role in establishing the Crips. Tookie went on to coauthor several children's books discouraging violence, and an autobiography that documents the realities of violence and life in prison.
Statement of Principles (pdf)
A Century of Struggle: Socialist Party USA -- 1901-2001 ( pdf)
The Israel/Palestine Crisis (pdf)
Repeal the Hyde Amendment (pdf)
Democratic Socialism and Lesbian and Gay Liberation (pdf)
Martin Luther King, Jr., and Democratic Socialism (pdf)
The Greater New York Local of the Socialist Party - USA calls for an immediate end to New York State's anti-union Taylor Law.
The 1967 'Public Employees-Fair Employment Act' made it illegal for any public employee or organization of public employees to go on strike, or even to " instigate, encourage, or condone a strike." That's right. Individual working people can be fined for so much as saying a strike is OK.
Even under capitalism, workers are SUPPOSED to have a right to bargin. How can they bargin when they have nothing to threaten? Doesn't that explain why so many NYC public employees go years without contracts? No limits are put on the coercive power of bosses, but public workers in this city can be forced to go to work by the police, forced to accept any pay and conditions the bosses demand. The 1967 law is just a retread of a 1947 law that was dumped after upstate millionare Governor Nelson Rockefeller found city officials wouldn't throw striking Transit Workers in jail as the law demanded, probably because the mayor knew the cops would have put HIM in jail if he tried.
The Socialist Party of Greater New York whole-heartedly supports the Graduate Student Union [GSOC/Local 2110 UAW] of New York University in their strike for fair union recognition. We ask that every New Yorker honor their picket lines and join the students and faculty at their rallies and meetings.
The graduate students are asking for nothing more than that the NYU administration recognize reality. There is a union of graduate students workers, the GSOC, formed and recognized in 2004. Even under the laws of this capitalist government, the administration must negotiate with that union. The administration flatly refuses to do so, safe in the knowledge the state will support them.
On May 1st walkouts at schools and workplaces across the US will take place in solidarity with immigrant com- munities under attack by Congressional legislation. These walkouts invoke the powerful tradition of May Day - the socialist celebration of international working class solidarity. Once again US immigrants are taking a leadership role in the struggle for social and economic justice, just as they did at the birth of May Day in Chicago a hundred and twenty years ago. The Socialist Party USA joins in the celebration of May Day and condemns the Democratic and Republican Parties for militarizing our borders and failing to protect the rights of all workers. Callous and ineffectual immigration policies are exacerbating racism in the US and creating an underclass of super-exploited workers, all in the service of corporate profits. The Socialist Party furthermore rejects assimilationist policies and attitudes which marginalize and criminalize the diverse heritages of immigrants and people of color.
Experience teaches us that only militant industry-wide labor action can challenge corporate power and win better wages, hours and working conditions. Nevertheless, the global inequalities that compel migrants to seek risky, back-breaking, low wage labor in the US cannot be resolved within the constraints of modern capitalism. In the tradition of May Day we call for the abolition of capitalist systems of ownership and trade, and the creation of a truly democratic society where production fulfills human need, not profit. In a world riddled with war and underdevelopment, we also add racism, militarism and imperialism to the list of global cancers which must be uprooted as prerequisites to peace and justice.
The Socialist Party encourages all members and affiliates to take part in the May Day call for “No Work, No School, No Buying, No Selling” and for members and affiliates to take part in local May Day actions.
A list of actions can be found on the Socialist Party USA website www.sp-usa.org and on http://www.nohr4437.org/.

As a party and as human beings, The Socialist Party of New York City has condemned the mass murder taking place in South West Asia at this moment. From Beit Jalin to Haifa to Sadr City, the United States government is provoking, sustaining and arming those hateful and desperate enough to kill entire peoples.
Sisters, Brothers, Comrades, We send greetings to all who struggle against capitalism on this, your day. Wherever those who suffer rebel, those who work tire, those who are alone organize: there is the revolution.
The future is in our hands. Let us join them across every barrier our rulers have created and build that future now.
Peace, Freedom, Socialism! on behalf of the Socialist Party - USA, Greater NYC Local
Justin Denton Ari Moore Tommy Miles David Mcreynolds
"Workers of the world, awaken!
Rise in all your splendid might
Take the wealth that you are making,
It belongs to you by right.
No one will for bread be crying
We'll have freedom, love and health,
When the grand red flag is flying
In the Workers' Commonwealth."
-Joe Hill

In the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, the New York City police raided a Greenwich Village bar: The Stonewall Inn. The Stonewall Inn, a gay and lesbian neighborhood bar with a large number of African American and Latino patrons, was also well-known as a safe space for those who did not conform to gendernorms: butch lesbians, effeminate gay men, and transsexual and transgendered persons before the terms were in popular use. All of these factors brought the police to Stonewall in 1969 for the purpose of illegally raiding the bar, and arresting its occupantsan action not unknown in New York in the 1960s. On that fateful day, however, the Stonewall's patrons had enough. Nobody knows who threw the first bottle that day. It may have been Sylvia Rivera, a transgendered activist and later a founding mother of political movements on behalf of transgendered and transsexual Americans. It may have been a still unidentified butch lesbian arrested in the bar. Over 2000 GLBTQ Americans clashed with 400 police officers on June 28. Arrests and beatings were concentrated among Stonewall's African American, Latino, butch and trans patrons. What ensued was known in the New York press and among the police as the Stonewall riots. For gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, transsexual and queer Americans, and later the world, that fateful day marked the beginning of the Stonewall Rebellion. With shouts of "Gay Power," the rebellion that lasted five days in New York began to spread across the country. Gay, lesbian, trans and other queer Americans took to the streets to protest their continued oppression, objectification, and criminalization. This singular event, the Stonewall Rebellion, marked the beginning of the modern GLBTQ liberation movement, and brought GLBTQ political and social struggles out of the closets on onto American streets. Using this date as the flashpoint, cities across America and around the world continue to celebrate the last week of June as Pride Weekend, a weekend where we remember the Rebellion, organize to continue the fight for queer liberation, and celebrate our culture, community, families and history.