From Truthout

Then They Came for the Trade Unionists

by: William Rivers Pitt, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed

 

On this day, it behooves us to remember the words of Martin Niemoller. "First they came for the communists," he wrote, "and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me." I am a trade unionist, and yesterday in Wisconsin, they came for me. They came for you. They came for every working person in America, »Read More