Making May Day matter...

…by closing down the docks to end the war.

More than 25,000 West Coast International Longshore and Warehouse workers, including many hundred in Tacoma, are taking a day off work today in protest of the war in Iraq.

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ILWU International President Bob McEllrath said the workers are “standing down on the job and standing up for America.”

A solidarity shout out to the men and women of the ILWU for reminding us what this day really means...or should.