Labor & War

US Labor Leaders on the War

• AFL-CIO President John Sweeney
• AFSCME President Gerald McEntee
• Change to Win Leader Andy Stern

Labor Resolutions Against the War

• AFL-CIO Resolution
• AFSCME Resolution
• Local 2627 Resolution
• Other Labor Resolutions

Costs of War

• National Priorities Project (Running cost of the war)
• Bushonomics: The Cost of War
• Two Leading Economists (One a Nobel Prize Winner) on the War's Final Cost
• Who Said the War Would Pay for Itself? Bush's "Experts!"

Casualties

• US (confirmed by the DOD)
• Coalition (by country)
• Contractors
• Mercenaries (Private security forces make up over 10% of the US forces in Iraq, but their casualty figures are mostly hidden.)
• Iraqi

Labor & War Files

• Executive Excess (War Profiteering — 60 Pages)
• False Pretenses (Documents 935 lies the Bush administration told to justify invading Iraq)
• Iraq and the Labor Movement: The Remarkable Story of USLAW
• Iraq: What Would King Say?
• Labor in Iraq
• Life in War-torn Iraq
• Local 2627 Interviews Iraqi Labor Leader
• US Labor & the War on Iraq
• US Labor's Antiwar Tradition
• The War and the Working Class
• Workers Bear the Costs of War

Anti-war Links*

• US Labor Against the War
• Iraq Veterans Against the War
• Veterans for Peace
• Military Families Speak Out
• Appeal for Redress (Active Duty Military Personnel)
• United for Peace and Justice
• Iraq Moratorium

* Why these links?

Resources on Labor & War in the DC 37 Library

Books

• Armed Madhouse: Who's Afraid of Osama Wolf? Greg Palast
• Behind the Invasion of Iraq, The Research Unit for Political Economy
• Bush in Babylon: The Recolonisation of Iraq, Tariq Ali
• The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them, Amy Goodman & David Goodman
• Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy, Noam Chomsky
• The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East, Robert Fisk
• The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth from 9/11 to Katrina, Frank Rich
• Home Fires Burning: Married to the Military — For Better or Worse, Karen Houppert
• Iraq, Inc.: A Profitable Occupation, Pratap Chatterjee
• An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire, Arundhati Roy
• State of Denial, Bob Woodward
• When the War Came Home: The Inside Story of Reservists and the Families They Leave Behind, Stacy Bannerman

DVDs/Videos

• Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers
• Uncovered: The War on Iraq

These materials are available to be checked out at the DC 37 Library.