[Peace-discuss] Thousands demonstrate in Tel Aviv for workers' rights

Sat Jun 14 09:28:08 EDT 2014

  Thousands demonstrate in Tel Aviv for workers' rights

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    Carrying red flags and banners from numerous left-wing parties, the
    demonstrators marched from Habima Square to Meir Park shouting
    slogans against "shilton hahon," or "the money regime" in English.

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Thousands of people marched in Tel Aviv Thursday evening to mark 
International Workers Day.

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Carrying red flags and banners from numerous left-wing parties, the 
demonstrators marched from Habima Square to Meir Park shouting slogans 
against "shilton hahon," or "the money regime" in English.

Hadash MK Dov Henin, who was among the demonstrators, carried a sign 
calling on the government to raise the minimum wage to NIS 30 per hour.

Opposition leader Isaac Herzog (Labor) wished workers a happy May 1 in a 
blog post on a Labor-affiliated website.

"In recent years in Israel, this date once again became a symbol of the 
battle of working people," Herzog wrote. "They saw the unwritten pact 
between them and the government, that if they contribute to society and 
work hard they can live in dignity, break." Herzog also praised the 
recent wave of new unions being formed "from Pelephone to Domino Pizza." 
"They refuse to accept the existing situation and are fighting for their 
conditions. They are determined, full of ideology and are inspiring. 
This is their day and I salute them," he added.

Meretz hosted a screening of the documentary "The Seven Circles of Hell 
in Public Housing" in Meir Park in Tel Aviv Thursday night.

"We've become a society of castes and classes," MK Ilan Gilon (Meretz) 
lamented.

Gilon added: "One line connects hundreds of thousands of workers and the 
thousands waiting for public housing, who demand to exercise their right 
to a roof over their heads. We want to bring the state back from real 
estate tycoons and manpower company pimps to the citizens, its real 
owner." MK Dov Henin (Hadash), who led the march to raise minimum wage, 
said that in 2014, marking the first of May is as relevant as ever.

Hanin listed the many goals of the march: "We want the people who live 
here to really be able to live here, for the working man to have a roof 
over his head, for the elderly not to have to choose between food and 
medicine, for women to have equal pay, for workers to be employed by and 
receive their rights from their workplace [as opposed to manpower 
companies], that people won't be discriminated against because they're 
Arabs or handicapped or gay or over 40, and that the government's money 
will be invested in raising minimum wage and poor neighborhoods instead 
of bombs and settlements.

"There is nothing old or irrelevant about demanding that men and women 
living here now have a future of equality and peace," he added.

Meanwhile, the New Liberal Movement held a memorial service for the 
victims of socialism and communism, titled "Remembrance Day for 100 
Million Murdered" in Tel Aviv.

Boaz Arad, one of the New Liberal Movement's founders, said "when facing 
those who glorify some of the worst perpetrators of genocide in history, 
we need to remember the tens of millions who all they did was live under 
red flags and suffered from the biggest social experiment ever. The 
first of May should be a memorial day."

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