[Peace] Fwd: NEWS FLASH!: Assembly to Get Eye-Witness Report from Iraq

[Alfred Kagan]

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>>FOR RELEASE: October 8, 2003	PLEASE REDISTRIBUTE WIDELY TO UNIONS 
>>AND OTHER LABOR ORGANIZATIONS.
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>>NATIONAL LABOR ASSEMBLY
>>Chicago, October 24-25
>>TO HEAR EYE WITNESS ACCOUNT about CONDITIONS FACING WORKERS and 
>>UNIONS in IRAQ
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>>U.S. Labor Against War announced today that among speakers to 
>>address its forthcoming National Labor Assembly for Peace in 
>>Chicago on October 24-25 will be eye witnesses to the conditions 
>>experienced by the labor movement and individual workers in Iraq 
>>under conditions of occupation. The Assembly will learn whether 
>>occupation forces and U.S. corporations are respecting the rights 
>>of Iraqi workers to freely organize, bargain and strike in 
>>organizations of their own choosing, based on interviews conducted 
>>in Iraq with workers and labor organizers.  These rights are 
>>enshrined in conventions of the International Labor Organization 
>>(ILO), a United Nations agency.  Iraq is signatory to more than 50 
>>ILO conventions on labor rights.
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>>The Assembly, which will draw delegates from local and national 
>>unions, central labor councils, workers centers, ad hoc labor 
>>antiwar committees and allied labor organizations, is expected to 
>>establish an organization devoted to explaining the link between 
>>U.S. foreign policy and its impact on the economy, working class 
>>communities, jobs, public services and civil liberties. 
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>>Information about the Assembly and registration forms are available 
>>at the USLAW website at
>>http://www.uslaboragainstwar.org/campaigns/campaign.php?topic_id=12.
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>>USLAW was founded at an emergency labor conference held in Chicago 
>>last January to give national exposure to widespread opposition 
>>within the labor movement to US military aggression in Iraq. 
>>Organizations with a combined membership of more than two million 
>>sent delegates to the founding meeting. 
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>>Among its achievements, USLAW initiated an international labor 
>>declaration against U.S. war in Iraq signed by labor leaders from 
>>more than 200 organizations with 130 million workers in 53 
>>countries representing.  In June, it issued a report  which 
>>recounts the labor, human rights, environmental, and corporate 
>>crime records of eighteen U.S. corporations that have been granted 
>>no-bid contracts for work in Iraq by the Bush administration.  The 
>>report was released as part of an international campaign for labor 
>>rights in Iraq initiated then at a labor conference in Geneva, 
>>Switzerland.  The report has since been translated into Arabic, 
>>French, Spanish, Portuguese and Japanese and is being circulated 
>>internationally.  It is available at the USLAW website. 
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>>USLAW affiliates have participated in antiwar protests prior to and 
>>since the invasion and occupation.  It has initiated a declaration 
>>being signed by union members who are veterans or members of 
>>military families calling for immediate withdrawal of all U.S. 
>>forces from Iraq as the most appropriate way to 'support the 
>>troops.'  USLAW is collaborating with Boston-based United for a 
>>Fair Economy to offer workshops that demonstrate the relationship 
>>between the war and the domestic economy.
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>>IF YOUR UNION OR OTHER LABOR ORGANIZATION HAS NOT YET REGISTERED 
>>ITS DELEGATES TO THE ASSEMBLY, URGE THEM TO DO SO -- TODAY! 
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>Al Kagan
>African Studies Bibliographer and Professor of Library Administration
>Africana Unit, Room 328
>University of Illinois Library
>1408 W. Gregory Drive
>Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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>tel. 217-333-6519
>fax. 217-333-2214
>e-mail. akagan at uiuc.edu


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Al Kagan
African Studies Bibliographer and Professor of Library Administration
Africana Unit, Room 328
University of Illinois Library
1408 W. Gregory Drive
Urbana, IL 61801, USA

tel. 217-333-6519
fax. 217-333-2214
e-mail. akagan at uiuc.edu
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