Federazione Impiegati Operai Metallurgici nazionale (FIOM), the largest metalworkers union in Italy, whose membership numbers 360,000, called for prosecution of Israeli officials for war crimes and suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement as well as of the military cooperation agreement between Italy and Israel. The following is FIOM’s 13 January 2009 statement on Gaza published […]
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Resistance and Recovery: The Republic Windows Workers Tour
UE Local 1110 members — the workers who occupied Chicago’s Republic Windows and Doors Plant in December and won — are visiting with, and being hosted by, labor and community groups from Michigan to Vermont during the next several weeks. Join Jobs with Justice, UE, and other groups in celebrating the successful resistance at Republic […]
Canadian Supreme Court to Rule If Farmworkers Are Human Beings . . . or “Disposable Tools”
Human rights, including the right of workers to form trade unions, to strike, and to bargain collectively with employers, are universal and indivisible rights which inhere in all human beings by virtue of their humanity. The Liberal Party government of the Canadian province of Ontario, however, is challenging this notion by calling on the Supreme […]
Thailand: Drop Lèse Majesté Charges against Giles Ji Ungpakorn
Academics, Intellectuals and Members of Parliament from around the World Call for Charges against Giles Ji Ungpakorn to be Dropped Academics from U.K, Canada, France, South Africa, Ireland, Australia, South Korea, Greece and the U.S.A., including those from Oxford University and SOAS London University, have signed an open letter calling for charges of lèse majesté, […]
Ron Carey Memorial Meeting, 28.02.09
Dear Friend: To become a listed (or unlisted) sponsor of this Saturday, Feb. 28 tribute to Ron Carey, please RSVP via the email address below and send a check for $100 (made out to “TRF“) to P.O. Box 10303, Detroit, Michigan, 48210. See this flyer for list of tribute sponsors so far. Event co-chairs are […]
Iceland: Storming the Althingi
On 20 January 2009, parliament in Iceland resumed after the holidays. But no business as usual for the Icelandic politicians any more. People began to besiege the parliament building, demanding early elections and not taking “No” for an answer. Writing for the Guardian today, Eirikur Bergmann described the political atmosphere in Iceland thus: “While Barack […]
700 Have Been Detained in Demonstrations Held in Israel against War Crimes in the Gaza Strip
Over 700 citizens and residents of Israel, mostly Arab-Palestinian, have been detained since Israel began its military attacks on the Gaza Strip on 27 December 2008. Detentions were made in the wake of public demonstrations, held primarily in northern Israel, Tel-Aviv-Jaffa, and also in the southern city of Bee-Sheva, against Israel’s war crimes in the […]
Continuing Gaza Protests, as Seen on Al Jazeera
and unseen on American TV. . . . Demos Call for Closure of US Embassy — Police and Protesters Clash, Awkar (North of Beirut), Lebanon, 19.01.09 Demos in Solidarity with Gaza in Cities of Australia — Sydney Demo, the Largest, Draws 20,000, 19.01.09 Tens of Thousands Protests in Solidarity with People of Gaza, Karachi, Pakistan, […]
Palestinian Government’s Open Letter to President Hugo Chavez
Palestinian National Authority Ministry of Foreign Affairs Deputy Office, Gaza January 12, 2009 In the Name of God; the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful President Hugo Chavez, Your Excellency, President Hugo Chavez, We, the people of Palestine, commend your courage to speak and act upon your conscience regardless of your detractors’ criticism or cowardice. Mr. […]
La Lutta Benefit
Hi everyone, Hope all is well. On February 5 at Crash Mansion in NYC, La Lutta NMC is having a benefit to support our youth media literacy and Artist-In-Residence program. Our most recent youth Artist-in-Residence participants, Lynchy Lezeau and Briana Orr, traveled to South Africa in 2008 where they produced a documentary series on HIV/AIDS […]
UE General Executive Board Calls for End to Bloodshed in Gaza
16 January 2009 Meeting in Pittsburgh, January 15 and 16, UE‘s General Executive Board adopted a statement condemning the current war in the Gaza Strip. The union’s national leadership body reiterated the position adopted by delegates to UE’s 70th Convention in 2007, which called for “replacing the lopsided pro-Israel policy of the U.S. with a […]
South African Solidarity with Egyptian and Palestinian Peoples
Numerous protests against Israel’s apartheid and massacres in Gaza have been held in South Africa. One of the targets has been the Egyptian regime’s role in the siege of Gaza. — Ed. Memorandum To President Hosni Mubarak, president of the Arab Republic of Egypt 9 January 2009 We who have gathered today outside the Egyptian […]
British Jews Call for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions against Israel
We the undersigned are all of Jewish origin. When we see the dead and bloodied bodies of young children, the cutting off of water, electricity and food, we are reminded of the siege of the Warsaw Ghetto. When Dov Weisglass, an adviser to the Israeli prime minister, Ehud Olmert, talked of putting Gazans “on a […]
UE: California Company Ready to Purchase Assets of Republic Windows, Put UE Members Back to Work
14 January 2009, Chicago UE Local 1110 announced today that the leading company in the green window business — Serious Materials, based in Sunnyvale, California — is in the final stages of working out an agreement to purchase the assets of Republic Windows and Doors. Members of UE Local 1110 staged a sit-in last month […]
El periodista Herman Schiller presentará al embajador palestino
El pròximo viernes, 16 de enero, a las 19.30, en el salón de actos del Partido Comunista, avenida Entre Ríos 1033, Ciudad de Buenos Aires, hablará el embajador palestino en la Argentina, doctor FARID SUWWAN. Tema: “LA MASACRE EN GAZA”. El diplomático será presentado por el periodista HERMAN SCHILLER. LA ENTRADA ES LIBRE
Bolivia Severs Ties with Israel in Protest of Gaza Massacres
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Sir Gerald Kaufman Asks “What the International Reaction Would Be If Hamas Had Slaughtered Nearly 900 Israelis and Subjected Nearly 1.5 million Israelis to Degradation and Deprivation?”
Sir Gerald Kaufman (Manchester, Gorton) (Lab): In congratulating my right hon. Friend [David Miliband] on steering resolution 1860 through the United Nations Security Council, may I ask him what the international reaction would be if Hamas had slaughtered nearly 900 Israelis and subjected nearly 1.5 million Israelis to degradation and deprivation? Is it not an […]
Labor Unions Vow Stepped-up Pressure on Congress to Support “Medicare for All” Approach to Healthcare Reform
Over 150 labor leaders from across U.S. kick off coordinated grassroots campaign for single payer healthcare St. Louis – More than 150 union leaders from 31 states gathered in St. Louis last weekend to step up a grassroots campaign to enact comprehensive national healthcare reform. The group is promoting a single-payer plan, which would work […]
Support the PGFTU Gaza Aid Fund!
Dear Brothers and Sisters, We are writing this letter to urge you to contribute to a special fund established by the Palestine General Federation of Trade Unions (PGFTU) to help with the severe humanitarian crisis in Gaza. All funds sent to the PGFTU GAZA AID will go to basic survival needs — food, medicine, rudimentary […]
Thousands of Israelis Protest against the War in Gaza
A headline on the front page of the New York Times today asserts: “Israelis United on Gaza War Even as Censure Rises Abroad” (Ethan Bronner, 13 January 2009). The article goes on to claim that “antiwar rallies here have struggled to draw 1,000 participants” (emphasis added). To be sure, the very first antiwar rally in […]
