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We continue with part two at our look at how the U.S. labor movement is increasing pressure on President Biden to demand a ceasefire in the U.S. backed

Israeli assault on Gaza.

Unions helped organize a march to AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee headquarters

here in New York last Thursday that called on lawmakers to stop taking campaign contributions from pro-Israel lobbyists.

Unions called for a ceasefire.

Among them, United Auto Workers, United Electrical Workers, American Postal Workers Union, 1199, SEIU, teachers, unions

in Chicago and Boston to name a few.

For more, we're joined in Chicago by Jeff Shurkey, Labor Historian, Journalists, and

assistant professor at the School of Labor Studies, Sunni Empire State University

here in New York, and in Washington, D.C. by Bill Fletcher,

longtime Trade Unionist Ukrainian Solidarity Network on the editorial board of the

nation has written a number of pieces on Gaza and Biden.

Juan?

Yeah, I wanted to begin with Bill Fletcher.

Bill, in part one of our interview, you raised the issue that you've written about suggesting that given the deep unpopularity of President Biden, especially among young people in terms of his of on Gaza that President Biden should resign or agree not to run again.

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