IVAW at Madison: National Guard, Support the Workers!

Labor Beat - Here is an historic moment in the anti-war movement in the U.S. On Feb. 26, 2011, at the center of a public workers uprising in Mid-America, Iraq Veterans Against the War drive home a key point: The wars abroad have a direct relationship to the wars against American workers. "Wisconsin taxpayers pay 2.7 billion dollars to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan" one IVAW member tells the packed crowd of protesters inside the Capitol rotunda at Madison. The IVAW calls for an end to the wars and using money spent there on the U.S. domestic economy instead. The veterans tell the pro-labor crowd that they too are public workers. The IVAW asks the Wisconsin National Guard, which may be called upon by Gov. Walker to break any possible public workers strikes: "We call upon [you] to refuse to mobilize on workers fighting for their rights." The IVAW put posters proclaiming this around the building. 6 min.