Outside the AFL-CIO. The Green denotes AFCSME marchers. Unionpresence at the march was rather extraordinar,y particularlyconsidering the AFL-CIO's virulently anti-immigrant stance from adecade ago. As Harold Meyerson explained it to me (and, later, ByronYork, who took notes), SEIU and UNITE, who were finding the majority of their growth in immigrant organizing, went to the AFL-CIO conference and demanded that they change their position. Sweeney, a former SEIU chief, appointed a panel to do reassess. The panel recommended reversal, and at the 1999 convention, it was codified:
The marchers cometh:
And cometh closer:
And we slip into the march:
I'll agree with this:
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