“Occupy Cleveland” wins wide community support

[Omaha Steve]

http://peoplesworld.org/occupy-cleveland-wins-wide-community-support/

by: Rick Nagin
October 14 2011



CLEVELAND - The Cleveland AFL-CIO gave the Occupy Wall Street movement a warm welcome of solidarity Oct. 12, a day when local occupiers won a permit for their encampment in Public Square and joined two downtown demonstrations for state and federal action on jobs.

Delegates cheered and offered support as Becka Hawkins and Nate Gero, organizers of Occupy Cleveland, spoke to the labor federation's monthly meeting about the movement's aims.

Hawkins, a law student and former union organizer, told the assembly that the Occupy movement grew out of the same "bad economic policies that labor has been fighting," including job-killing trade agreements, budget cuts and Gov. John Kasich's attempt to bust unions and destroy collective bargaining with Senate Bill 5.

Gero, a union welder in an electric equipment repair company, told how the Occupiers marched that day for jobs legislation in actions held by MoveOn at Sen. Rob Portman's office and by Fight for a Fair Economy at Kasich's office. He asked support for worldwide demonstrations set for the coming weekend in up to 1300 cities by the Occupy movement and appealed for donations of supplies needed for the encampment site established a week ago.

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