Labor Review airs on KPFK tonight at 9 pm and features two Iraqi labor leaders.
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: LA IRAQ LABOR TOUR BEGINS Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 19:24:43 -0700 From: Tom McKenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Tom McKenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi all, The LA leg of the Iraq Labor Tour begins tonight with a broadcast interview with Iraqi labor leaders on Henry Walton's Labor review at 8PM. LA is the second stop, after Washington DC, on their 12 city tour around the US. While traveling here, enormous change is occurring in Iraq. Struggle continues, and glimpses of hope reveal themselves for the people of that devastated nation. What happens now will have enormous ramifications for the future of Iraq. I urge you to take advantage of this historic opportunity to hear from Iraqis themselves about challenges they face with their sisters and brothers working for a brighter Iraqi future. Hashmeya al Hussein is the first woman to head a major national union in Iraq. She is president of the electric utility workers. She has led important actions with members of her union that have secured more stable working conditions for people there. Faleh Abood Umara is a founding member of the oil workers union and worked for the Southern Oil Company in Basra for 28 years. In 1998, he was detained by the Hussein regime for his activities on behalf of his coworkers. Presently, he leads workers in their opposition to outsourcing to foreign workers and schemes to privatize the oil sector. LA Tour. Meet Faleh and Hashmeya face to face: LABOR RECEPTION AND FORUM FRIDAY, June 8, 2007, 5 PM UCLA Downtown Labor Center 675 S Park View. LA 90057 COMMUNITY LABOR SOLIDARITY FORUM SATURDAY, June 9, 2007, 7:30 PM United Teachers Los Angeles 3303 Wilshire Blvd. 2nd floor. LA 90010 These courageous leaders struggled for years against Hussein¹s repression and now have stepped forward to organize workers seeking to improve conditions at their work-places, support their families and rebuild their country under the difficult conditions of occupation, sectarian division, and violence. They are fighting not only for basic labor rights for all workers, but also against privatization of their natural resources. I look forward to seeing you. In peace and solidarity, Tom -- "I must fight with all my strength so that the little positive things that my health allows me to do might be pointed toward helping the revolution. The only real reason for living." -Frida Kahlo emma rosenthal is a disabled artist, writer, educator, reiki practitioner, activist and consultant, living in southern california. emma rosenthal po box 26382 los angeles, ca 90026 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 818-404-5784 emma's web page: http://home.earthlink.net/~emmarosenthal http://home.earthlink.net/~cafeintifada http://home.earthlink.net/~theweproject emma.s blogs: In Bed With Frida Kahlo: Daily indignities, small insurrections and honest musings from a life of infirmity and rebellion http://inbedwithfridakahlo.blogsource.com/ Emma Rosenthal: A blog of political essays, letters and news. http://emmarosenthal.blogsource.com/ http://cafeintifada.blogsource.com/ Uniting Art with Critical Consciousness http://cafeintifadafilms.blogsource.com/ Film reviews: A resource for activists and educators [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
