'Workers First' car caravans drive mass turnouts nationwide
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By Mark Gruenberg

WASHINGTON-From Fairbanks to San Juan and from Bangor to Honolulu, workers nationwide turned out June 17 in car caravans, at press conferences, and in call-ins to lawmakers to demand solons "Put Workers First For Racial And Economic Justice."

Their top demands are additional economic aid during the coronavirus pandemic, for workers, not bosses, and for racial justice and economic justice and to force the federal government to order employers to provide anti-coronavirus protective gear.

To make their views heard, at least 1,000 cars, festooned with posters and flags, honked their way to Capitol Hill from two sites in the D.C. suburbs, then descended on the Mall to its west.

Their point, and those of hundreds of other caravans in every state, D.C., and Puerto Rico, was to force the GOP-run Senate to approve a $3 trillion coronavirus pandemic economic aid package the Democratic-run House passed late last month.

They also demanded comprehensive criminal justice reform, not just the ouster of so-called "bad apples" in police departments. The reform would address the militarization of police and their immunity from prosecution for murdering unarmed Black, brown, and Native Americans, a court system tilted against people of color and a police culture that treats non-whites automatically as dangerous....

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