[Peace-discuss] Fwd: [ilrtf] Longshore Union to Shut Down Port on
3/20; Freedom for Layla Radman Aesh!
Alfred Kagan
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Thu Mar 18 08:54:40 CST 2004
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>Subject: [ilrtf] Longshore Union to Shut Down Port on 3/20; Freedom for Layla
> Radman Aesh!
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>* Longshore Union to Shut Down Port on 3/20
>* Freedom for Layla Radman Aesh!
>______________________________________________
>
>Longshore Union to Shut Down Port on 3/20
>by Jack Heyman Sunday, Jan. 18, 2004 at 7:20 PM
>The San Francisco longshore union voted at our
>last membership meeting to hold a "stop work"
>meeting on March 20th to protest the war in Iraq.
>
>Letter from Jack Heyman, ILWU Local 10, San Francisco:
>
>Longshore Union to Shut Down Port
>On March 20 to Protest War on Iraq
>
>Dear Sisters and Brothers:
>
>The San Francisco longshore union voted at our
>last membership meeting to hold a "stop work"
>meeting on March 20th to protest the war in
>Iraq. We will demand an end to the war, an end
>to the occupation and the immediate withdrawal
>of all U.S. troops now!
>
>This is not a "strike." We are implementing a
>provision within our contract that permits us to
>stop work once a month for a "stop work"
>meeting. We are trying to organize all ports on
>the U.S. West Coast to take the same action as
>Local 10. If they decide to follow our lead, it
>will send a powerful working class message to
>the warmongers in Washington that we don't
>support imperial wars like the one in Iraq.
>
>We used this same tactic successfully in 1999 to
>shut down West Coast ports to demand freedom for
>framed black political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal.
>Longshoremen in Los Angeles last month used
>their "stop work" meeting to mobilize support
>for the striking grocery workers in Southern
>California.
>
>We hope this action by U.S. longshore workers
>will help put an end to the needless slaughter
>in Iraq.
>
>In solidarity,
>
>Jack Heyman,
>ILWU Local 10
>
>Longshore Workers to Shut Down All Bay Area and
>Oregon Ports on March 20 on the Occasion of the
>Global Day of Action against the War and
>Occupation. Their demand: "Bring the Troops Home
>Now!"
>
>No ships will be loaded or unloaded in Bay Area
>ports on March 20th, as International Longshore
>& Warehouse Union Local #10
>holds a stop-work meeting to protest the US war
>and occupation of Iraq. Longshore workers in
>Oregon have also refused to move cargo on that
>day, in solidarity with the Global Day of Action
>against war and occupation.
>
>In San Francisco, the ILWU Drill Team and
>contingent will lead the march from Dolores Park
>to Civic Center on Saturday, March 20, 2004.
>
>Behind them will be the rest of the Labor
>Contingent, which is gathering at 11 a.m. at
>Dolores Park (18th St.& Dolores), just uphill
>from the small building housing the public rest
>rooms, in the middle of the park, for the
>opening rally. The march steps off about noon
>from Dolores to a 1 pm rally at Civic Center,
>Polk & Grove Streets, San Francisco
>
>The ILWU will hold their stop-work meeting at 8
>a.m. at their hall at 400 North Point, and
>school buses will take the ILWU members to
>Dolores Park for the march. Buses will be driven
>by school bus drivers from United Transportation
>Union #1741, who are donating their labor as a
>contribution to the march and anti-war effort.
>
>The California Federation of Teachers have their
>annual convention this weekend in Los Angeles,
>and many of their members from all over the
>state will be marching in L.A. Saturday against
>the war and occupation. Last year, as the war in
>Iraq was beginning, the CFT marched out of their
>convention onto Market Street to join one of the
>biggest anti-war marches of 2003.
>
>=====================================
>
>Freedom for Layla Radman Aesh!
>
>
>
>Layla Radman Aesh is a Yemeni woman who was sentenced in 2000 by a court in
>the Yemeni city of Aden to death by stoning on adultery charges. She is now
>waiting in a jail in Aden to be murdered. Layla's crime is entering a sexual
>relationship with her husband whom abandoned her and she asked to divorce
>him.
>
>Layla was well under legal age when she was first forced to marry this man.
>Her husband later abandoned her, so she went to a court asking for divorce,
>but the court never studied her case, and a verdict was therefore never
>taken. Being illiterate, unemployed, isolated, and in need of accommodation
>and food, Layla Aesh returned to her husband's house and they started living
>as a couple and this is a crime that warrants death penalty according to
>barbaric Islamic Sharia. If a husband and a wife divorce, woman has to marry
>another man and get divorce before she can re-marry her ex-husband. Sexual
>relationship between ex-husband and ex-wife is adultery.
>
>
>Layla Aesh was sentenced without receiving any legal advice or help. She was
>not allowed to present her case properly. Layla never knew that applying for
>a divorce was enough to make her marriage relationship invalid. Her husband
>received a lighter sentences and was sentenced to one and half year in
>prison and flogging.
>
>
>We call on all women organizations, activists, freedom-loving people,
>progressive groups, and human rights organizations to raise their voice in
>defense of Layla Aesh.
>
>
>
>Organisation of Women’s Freedom in Iraq
>
> 16 March 04
>
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>Organisation of Women’s Freedom in Iraq
>
>Caxton House-2nd Floor, 129 St.John’s Way- London N19 3RQ-Tel: 020 7263 1027
>
>Fax: 020 7561 9594-Mobile: 07890 065933-Email: mecwr2003 at yahoo.co.uk
>
>Website: www.equalityiniraq.com
>
>
>
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