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http://protesti.tumblr.com/ <http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fprotesti.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F87848571369%2Fsao-paulo-subway-workers-to-strike&h=TAQGi_NPy&enc=AZMQIgHGmF4JWyzqSpZkPNNgMR73Aa5wph0Kh4ZhKpq2PxTKTKiQJLYmVp3c0QbKwCudN1SsjAc6D5Bp21i9bEp7w5OaSETp2kfdjr1ojCgrf3vaV5DXLkTvHIU69f-E08nqSKMX9UGqcRY4H-lZin8K&s=1> URGENT CALL FROM BRAZIL: WE NEED YOUR SOLIDARITY Altino Prazeres, president, Metro Workers Union São Paulo Brazil Sao Paulo Transit Workers: Intensify the struggle, defend the right to strike, prevent any punishment, we want to negotiate now. Everyone has been following the mobilizations going on in Brazil with strikes and demonstration by workers and popular organizations expressing their indignation about the World Cup with its astronomic costs and corruption, all in function of the interests of the multinational companies and FIFA. But at the same time people have been .putting forward their concrete struggles making demands for salaries, rights, housing, better public services. They have denounced repression and criminalization of dissent, etc. At this moment, the transit workers in Sao Paulo are in the fifth day of a strike which began last Thursday. The transport workers carry 4,000,000 passengers every day in the city where, next Thursday, June 12, the opening of the World Cup will take place. Because this strike is so important, the government has decided that it has to be defeated come what may. It is seeking to impose an end to the strike and also prevent the mobilizations from escalating in the coming days. Brazilian Justice, working hand in hand with the interests of the government, big business and FIFA declared the strike illegal today and demanded that the transit workers return to work immediately. It has established a daily fine of US$ 250,000 on their union for non-compliance. This decision by the Justice Ministry allows the government to dismiss the strikers, contravening all their legal and economic rights. We are counting on the support and solidarity of all the Brazilian union centrals that are organization initiatives in support of the strike (see note below) The Union and the workers have decided to continue the strike, despite the government’s orders, in order to defend their demands and also to defend their right to strike. We need your support and solidarity. Send messages to the e-mails below, post photos on social networks, broadcast this call on your lists and web sites Full support for the Sao Paulo Transit Workers Response to the demands of the transit sector In defence of the right to strike.! No to repression, no punishment! Alckman negotiate! Altino Prazeres, President, Sao Paulo Transit Workers Union International Network of Solidarity and Struggle CSP Conlutas - Brasil Contact info and where to send support messages: Altino Prazeres Président du Syndicat des Travailleurs du Métro de São Paulo http://www.metroviarios.org.br/site/ - https://www.facebook.com/sindicatodosmetroviariosdesaopaulo Réseau Syndical International de Solidarité et de Lutte CSP-Conlutas — Brésil http://cspconlutas.org.br/ <http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fcspconlutas.org.br%2F&h=rAQEdrRvf&enc=AZNlJeJmogAydM-oCdzRguUeudospjX5cNqpUX0SzPcvSyVPMeJBPOum_cug9JkXl_HAo94LrEHJ7jfjsIZFPliz4O3sfmUhAWdBLDlsP0-Tf5vKilw8_kenU57ejlaW9v5QHIyWjcsdaJhhunQr5tcB&s=1> - https://www.facebook.com/CSPConlutas sindic...@metroviarios-sp.org.br impre...@metroviarios-sp.org.br cc: dirceutraves...@gmail.com <http://webmailbb.juno.com/webmail/new/5?userinfo=b83fbf69bd2e8ff6d51a00c3503bc1b7&count=1402317721&randid=1827375203#> On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > ====================================================================== > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > ====================================================================== > > > http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_spot/2014/06/08/s_o_paulo_ > strikes_brazil_faces_an_unprecedented_labor_crisis_with_the_world.html > ________________________________________________ > Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu > Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/ > options/marxism/acpollack2%40gmail.com > ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
