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AFL-CIO NATIONAL CONVENTION
July 25-29, 2005
AFL-CIO 50TH ANNIVERSARY CONVENTION:
ON THE CONVENTION FLOOR
Photo essay by Steve Share, Minneapolis Labor Review editor
(This page under construction)
Right: John Sweeney,
re-elected president of the AFL-CIO. "We are moving forward… We have set a bold and ambitious course for the future."
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Left: Richard Trumka,
re-elected as AFL-CIO's secretary-treasurer, speaks at a press briefing. "The AFL-CIO is really making some historical changes here this week."
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Left: Linda Chavez-Thompson, re-elected as AFL-CIO's executive vice-president. "No less than 15 positions on the executive council will be women and minorities, showing the new face of the labor movement… We will ensure and enhance gender and racial diversity." |
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Above: AFL-CIO president John Sweeney introduces members and staff of Working America, a new initiative recruiting individuals as community affiliates of the AFL-CIO in six cities across the country to work on issue advocacy campaigns and electoral efforts.
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Left: Rev. Jesse Jackon, Sr. stirred delegates with a call to bring U.S. troops home from Iraq. "We fought to bring down a dictator," he said. "We should not occupy Iraq nor remain in themiddle of a civil and religious war." The convention later passed a resolution expressing support for the troops and directing the Bush administration to "bring them home rapidly.
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Above: delegates cheer and wave signs as Sweeney, Trumka and Chavez-Thompson are re-elected without opposition. |
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Above: by the time the covention adjourned at 12 noon July 29, empty tables showed that many delegates already had begun to leave. |
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