tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21978939.post3758430523302472199..comments2024-02-17T09:15:28.288-05:00Comments on Norm's Notes: Union's Hawkish Foreign Policy Agenda Hampers Defense of Teachersed notes onlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15018047869059226777noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21978939.post-32620538887449845652011-05-23T11:43:24.639-04:002011-05-23T11:43:24.639-04:00Shanker and the UFT/AFT were also major supporter...Shanker and the UFT/AFT were also major supporters of AIFLD (American Institute for Free Labor Development),which was a Cold War operation inside the AFL-CIO that worked with the US State Department and CIA to undermine left-wing unions, mostly in Latin America. To their everlasting shame, they were complicit in trucking strikes that helped drive support for the fascist military coup that took place in Chile on the First 9/11 (September 11, 1973) when the elected government of Salvador Allende was violently overthrown. <br /><br />As the article points out, Shanker was a supporter of the Vietnam until the bitter end. In fact, in Norm's immortal observation, when you look at those famous images of the last man desperately holding on to the last US helicopter taking off from the roof of the US embassy in Saigon, you're looking at Al Shanker.Michael Fiorillonoreply@blogger.com