AFP. 21 January 2002. Arabs urged to protest "Israeli aggression" with labor strike.
CAIRO -- A group of Arab unions and human rights organizations on Monday called on Arabs to briefly stop working at the end of this month to protest against "Israeli aggression" against the Palestinians. The groups called in a statement for Arabs to stop working for five minutes on January 30 starting at 0900 GMT. The action is "to express our refusal and our protest at the savage and systematic Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people," they said. "The organizations and the unions ask all Arab citizens and society to respond to this call and express their solidarity with the Palestinian people," they said. Among the groups launching the protest are Arab unions for lawyers, doctors and journalists, the International Federation of Arab Workers Unions, and the Arab Organization of Human Rights. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Barry Stoller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ProletarianNews
