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Endorsers, March 17, 2006 Endorsers of the Militant Fighting Fund Partial list March 17, 2006 Organizations following individual names listed for identification Trade union United Food and Commercial Daniel Rivera, exec. dir., New Mexico Workers 27 Baltimore, MD Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO support Albuquerque, NM United Food and Commercial Arturo Rodriguez, pres., United Farm Workers 101 South San Francisco, CA American Federation of State, Workers Keene, CA County, Municipal Employees 3800 United Food and Commercial Minneapolis, MN Milton Rosado, pres., Labor Council for Workers 120 Oakland, CA Latin American Advancement American Federation of Television Washington, DC United Food and Commercial & Radio Artists/Screen Actors Guild Workers 400 Landover, MD Brooks Sunkett, CWA vice pres. for Chicago, IL Public, Healthcare and Education International Longshore and United Food and Commercial Workers Washington, DC Warehouse Union 10 Workers 408 Houston, TX Wendell Young III, int’l vice-pres., San Francisco, CA United Food and Commercial UFCW Lafayette Hill, PA International Longshore and Workers 428 San Jose, CA Former Co-Op coal miners Warehouse Union 19 UFCW Minority Coalition Ricardo Chávez Huntington, UT Seattle, WA Landover, MD José Contreras Price, UT International Longshoremen’s United Steel Workers 12-578 Association 21 Bill Estrada Price, UT Beaumont, TX (Holly, Flying J refineries) Bountiful, UT Jesús Galavíz, Huntington, UT International Union of Operating United Steel Workers 1005 Engineers 953 Executive Board Alyson Kennedy Price, UT Hamilton, ON, Canada Farmington, NM Berthila León Huntington, UT United Steel Workers 8580 Celso Panduro Labor Council for Latin American Huntington, UT Hawkesbury, ON, Canada Advancement, AFL-CIO Sergio Ponce Huntington, UT Washington, DC United Transportation Union 1741 Miguel Rodriguez Huntington, UT San Francisco, CA Laborers Local 79 New York, NY Octavio Rodriguez Huntington, UT Rodrigo Rodriguez Huntington, UT National Distribution Union Björn Borg, pres., Dock Workers Union Juan Salazar, Huntington, UT Auckland, New Zealand Stockholm, Sweden Ana Maria Sánchez Huntington, UT Maritime Union of New Zealand 13 Mike Casey, int’l vice-pres./pres., Auckland, New Zealand UNITE HERE 2 San Francisco, CA Steve Abbott, pres., Black Hawk Agnelo da Costa, int’l vice-pres./ Musicians’ Association of Seattle Union Council, AFL-CIO Waterloo, IA manager, UNITE HERE New England 76-493 Seattle, WA Joint Board New Bedford, MA Ghazi Faisal Abdellatif, steward, UFCW 401 Brooks, AB, Canada Toronto & York Region Labour Maria Elena Durazo, int’l vice-pres./ Council Toronto, ON, Canada pres. UNITE HERE 11 Los Angeles, CA Luisa Acevedo, pres., UFCW 481 San Juan, Puerto Rico San Francisco Central Labor Council Dave Eastlake, general sec’y, New San Francisco, CA Zealand Meat Workers Union Robert Akol, chief steward ‘B’ shift, Christchurch, New Zealand UFCW 401 Brooks, AB, Canada United Auto Workers 2188 Howard Allen, retired, Seafarers Fitzgerald, GA Gregory Hamblet, int’l vice-pres., UFCW Washington, DC International Union New Orleans, LA United Auto Workers 270 Ed Mayne, pres., Utah State AFL-CIO Antonio Amaral, Aircraft Mechanics Des Moines, IA Salt Lake City, UT Fraternal Assoc. 1 Newark, NJ Organization key — AFSCME: American Federation of State, County, Municipal Employees AFT: American Fed- eration of Teachers CEP: Communications, Energy & Paperworkers Union of Canada CWA: Communications Workers of America IBEW: International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers IBT: International Brotherhood of Teamsters ILA: Interna- tional Longshoremen's Association ILWU: International Longshore and Warehouse Union IUOE: International Union of Operating Engineers MWU: Meat Workers Union (New Zealand) NCFO: National Conference of Firemen & Oilers NDU: National Distribution Union (New Zealand) NLG: National Lawyers Guild NOW: National Organization for Women SEIU: Service Employees International Union SFWU: Service & Food Workers Union - Nga Ringa Tota (New Zealand) SINTRALCASA: Union of ALCASA (aluminum) Workers TWU: Transport Workers Union UFCW: United Food & Commercial Workers UFW: United Farm Workers UMWA: United Mine Workers of America UNITE HERE: Union of garment, textile, hotel, & restaurant employees USW: United Steelworkers Union UTU: United Transportation Union Kent Anderson, pres., CWA 7704 Denis Carlisle, pres., Maritime Union Raymond P. España, pres., LA Chapter, Salt Lake City, UT 13 Auckland, New Zealand Labor Council for Latin American Steve Armstrong, pres., CEP 28-0 John Carlyle, delegate, MWU Advancement Los Angeles, CA Brockville, ON, Canada Christchurch, New Zealand Rafael Espinosa, union representative, Gudmundur Rúnar Árnason, press Victor Carrozzino, education dir., UFCW 789 St. Paul, MN officer, Icelandic Confederation of Labor UFCW 175 Toronto, ON, Canada Jason Fedorow, staff, Missouri State Hafnarfjördur, Iceland Donald Cash, Jr., business rep., Council SEIU St. Louis, MO Steve Augustine, ILA 1416 Miami, FL UFCW 400 Landover, MD Andrew Ferguson, sec’y, Construction Andre Balash, sec’y-treasurer, UNITE Bill Chandler, organizer UNITE HERE Forestry Mining Energy Union, HERE 355 Miami, FL Jackson, MS NSW branch Lidcombe, Australia Sarah Barker, organizer, SFWU Joe Chang, vice-pres., Labour/Cable Manuel Figuera, union official, Auckland, New Zealand CEP 700 Toronto, ON, Canada SINTRALCASA Bolívar, Venezuela Shane Bastien, organizer, UFCW 789 Jack Colgan, UMWA 1197 Indiana, PA John Fisher, ILWU 19 Seattle, WA Minneapolis, MN Abigail Colon, steward, SEIU 1199 Bob & Ann Fivecoat, UMWA 9958 James Bates, pres., USW 2122 New York, NY East Carbon, UT Birmingham, AL Manuel Córdoba, pres., Teachers Union Charlie Flemming, pres., Atlanta-North Howard Beck, rec. sec’y, USW 12-578 of La Guajira Riohacha, La Guajira, Colombia Georgia Labor Council Atlanta, GA Salt Lake City, UT Bill Cozzens, rec. sec’y, Atlanta-North Gordon Flett, shop steward, CEP 2000 Myke Begaye, safety rep., UMWA 1332 Georgia Labor Council Atlanta, GA Vancouver, BC, Canada Window Rock, AZ Scott Cox, business agent, ILA 24 John Fonotia, shed sec’y, PPCS Mary Bennett, exec. board, Houston, TX Canterbury, MWU Christchurch, AFSCME 2858 Chicago, IL New Zealand Al Craig, UMWA 2133 Dolomite, AL George Bertram, Union of Shop Michael Foster, UMWA 2245 Distributive and Allied Workers G-13 Paul Craig, sec’y-treasurer, Birmingham, AL Boilermakers 484 Meredosia, IL Winghburgh, Scotland Elizabeth Freeman, pres., Tom Bigman, UMWA 1924 Shonto, AZ Handel Crawford, shop steward, UNITE HERE 8 Seattle, WA UFCW 175 Maple, ON, Canada Kelly Bingham, pres., USW 12-578 Cristina Gallo, researcher, UNITE HERE West Point, UT Jeffrey Crosby, pres., North Shore Brooklyn, NY Labor Council Lynn, MA Grey Bizoti, UMWA 1620 Shonto, AZ Stephen Gault, pres., UFCW 408 Agnes Cuzzamu, shop steward, UFCW Houston, TX Kathy Black, pres., Phila. Coalition of 401 Brooks, AB, Canada Labor Union Women Philadelphia, PA Rolf Gerstenberger, pres., USW 1005 Ray Davis, UMWA 1206 Wellington, UT Hamilton, ON, Canada Alvin Blackgoat, financial sec’y, UMWA 1332 Lupton, AZ R.L. Dawson, shed pres., PPCS Harold Gibbens, pres., Spring Creek Canterbury, MWU Miners Union Greymouth, New Zealand Jeannot Boivin, shop steward, Nat’l Christchurch, New Zealand Union of Arvida Aluminum Employees Angel Giboyeaux, TWU 100 Arvida, Quebec Dallas DeLay, former business agent, New York, NY ILWU 19 Seattle, WA John Braxton, co-pres., AFT 2026 Osvaldo Gomez, chapter chair, Cudahy, Philadelphia, PA Pete DeMay, organizer, UNITE HERE United Teachers Los Angeles Chicago, IL South Gate, CA Warren Brodhead, pres., AFT 4430 Salt Lake City, UT Johanne Desbiens, organizer UFCW Mike Gordon, committeeman, 503 (Wal-Mart) Jonquiere, Quebec UAW 2188 Abbeville, GA Teresa Brown, organizer, NDU Auckland, New Zealand Carmen Dickinson, union rep., Robert Gorman, staff, AFL-CIO; SEIU 150 IBEW 46 Seattle, WA Robert Buckner, treasurer, IUOE 953 Loves Park, IL Fruitland, NM Don Driscoll, pres., SEIU 205 James Graham, sec’y, Wear Valley & District Trades Union Council James Burns, exec. board, Nashville, TN Durham, United Kingdom ILWU 19 Seattle, WA Campbell Duignan, southern reg’l sec’y, SFWU Norman Grant, pres., USW 8580 Jean-Marc Byoko, pres., Cameroon Christchurch, New Zealand Lakefield, Quebec Public Servants Union Cameroon Roberto Duran, organizer, John Gutierrez, UMWA 6363 Sammy Caetano, chairperson, Ironworkers 846 Phoenix, AZ Price, UT UFCW 175 Mississauga, ON, Canada Maria Ednalva, nat’l sec’y of working Derek Gwynn, service rep., Marcos Camacho, general counsel, women, Central Workers Union – UFCW 1118 High River, AB, Canada Coordination of Central Unions of the UFW, Bakersfield, CA Tim Hamann, pres., UFCW 120 Southern Cone Sao Paulo, Brazil David Campbell, sec’y-treasurer, Oakland, CA USW 675 Los Angeles, CA Carolyn Egan, pres., USW 8300 Grant Harrison, delegate, MWU Toronto, ON, Canada Ken Capstick, former chair, Yorkshire’s Christchurch, New Zealand National Union of Mineworkers K.C. Ellis, communications coordinator, Ramiro Hernandez, staff, UNITE HERE Wakefield, United Kingdom SEIU 32BJ Philadelphia, PA Houston, TX Page 2 Militant Fighting Fund Endorser List Bernie Hesse, organizing director UFCW David Kuot, UFCW 401 Jill Ovens, senior organizer, 789 St. Paul, MN Brooks, AB, Canada SFWU Auckland, New Zealand Russell Hess, pres., Southeast MN Miguel Antonio Laguna, gen’l sec’y, Valentin Pacho, director & deputy gen. Central Labor Council Plainview, MN Sindicato Lidia Maradiaga Presitex sec’y, World Federation of Trade
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