“We need to spend money on health care, schools, housing--not a war budget.”  This was the statement of Fred Pecker, a member of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 6,

On this day in labor history, the year was 2003. 

Fred, who was protesting in San Francisco, was just one of the estimated 10 million people in 800 cities across the globe that protested the U.S. War in Iraq that day.