The Bay Area gets ready to confront the right
ANTI-RACISTS from all over the Bay Area and beyond--student groups, faith and community organizations, unions, socialists, and groups and individuals of all kinds--are coming together to organize what will hopefully be the largest mobilization against the far right at Berkeley in recent memory on August 27.
Anti-racists have been organizing for the Bay Area Rally Against Hate since July, when neo-Nazis and other far right groups announced they would be gathering at Berkeley's Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park on August 27 and San Francisco's Crissy Field Beach on August 26.
Since then, more than 70 organizations have added their name to the list of endorsers of the counter-mobilization, including the Berkeley Federation of Teachers, AFSCME 3299, SEIU 1021, the Alameda County Labor Council, Alameda for Black Lives, Muslim Student Association at UC Berkeley, the International Socialist Organization, several chapters of the Democratic Socialists of America, Socialist Alternative, NARAL Pro-Choice California, Jewish Youth for Community Action and many more.
On August 19, International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 10 voted in favor of a stop work action and march against the fascists on August 26. The local's resolution concludes that the ILWU, "in the best tradition of our union that fought these right-wingers in the Big Strike of 1934, will not work on that day and instead march to Crissy Field to stop the racist, fascist intimidation in our hometown and invite all unions and antiracist and antifascist organizations to join us defending unions, racial minorities, immigrants, LGBTQ people, women and all the oppressed."
Read more: https://socialistworker.org/2017/08/21/the-bay-area-gets-ready-to-confront-the-right