Long Beach, California
Participants of the ILWU International Dockworkers Solidarity Conference held the week of July 30, 2001, in Long Beach, California and attended by dockworker union representatives from fifteen countries, unanimously pledge to support and defend the Charleston 5. We fully endorse the August 1, 2001 statement issued by the AFL-CIO Executive Council demanding justice for the Charleston 5. The union-busting persecution of the ILA and its members in Charleston, South Carolina must end.
There is no peace without justice and we will, as the AFL-CIO statement declares,“wage and escalate this fight until they are free and justice is done!”
dc/O. P. E. I. U. , Local 29-AFL-CIO
