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Comment by Joe Balkis on June 11, 2012 at 16:22

You are the ones able to support us for victory in our battle.

Your brothers who remain on hunger strike until victory or martrydom,

Mahmoud Sarsak Akram Rikhawi

Sarsak’s family has also joined in a video call for his freedom: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=qhF3AUaKgX0

Protests have taken place across Europe and more action is urgently needed. As the world’s eyes are on the best in soccer, take action for a true football hero – Mahmoud Sarsak – whose life is on the line for his freedom, and for dignity and justice for all Palestinians.

TAKE ACTION!

1. Sign a letter demanding the Israeli state transfer Mahmoud Sarsak, ... Tell the Israeli Prison Services that the world is watching! Click here to sign.

2. Join a protest or demonstration for Palestinian prisoners. Many groups and organizations are holding events – join one or announce your own. Organizing an event, action or forum on Palestinian prisoners on your city or campus? Use this form to contact us and we will post the event widely. If you need suggestions, materials or speakers for your event, please contact us at samidoun@samidoun.ca.

3. Contact your government officials and demand an end to international silence and complicity with the repression of Palestinian political prisoners. In Canada, Call the office of John Baird, Foreign Minister, and demand an end to Canadian support for Israel and justice for Palestinian prisoners, at : 613-990-7720; Email: bairdj@parl.gc.ca. In the US, call the office of Elizabeth Jones, Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs (1.202.647.7209). Demand that Elizabeth Jones bring this issue urgently to his counterparts in Israel.

Comment by Joe Balkis on June 6, 2012 at 16:13

Thursday, June 7,
Noon
Strike!
Sycamore History Museum, 1730 N. Main
St, Sycamore
Dr. Rosemary Feurer and former Anaconda employees on the 1968
strike in Sycamore. MORE INFORMATION

Comment by Joe Balkis on June 6, 2012 at 16:11

Wednesday, June 6, 6 PM
to 7 PM
Something to Strike
About?
Anthony Cappetta and Sarah Jane Rhee on issues
facing Chicago public school teachers today. MORE INFORMATION.

Comment by Joe Balkis on May 26, 2012 at 22:26

Machinists Strike as Caterpillar
Demands Non-Union Wage Rates 

Do workers need a union to negotiate "market-based" wages? Machinists at a Caterpillar factory in Joliet, Illinois, struck May 1 to tell the heavy-equipment giant they deserve better.

Comment by Joe Balkis on May 26, 2012 at 22:17

Hour Before Release, Palestinian Prisoner Sent to Admin Detention • Hunger Strike Continues

http://www.imemc.org/article/63568
http://www.addameer.org/etemplate.php?id=482

Comment by Joe Balkis on May 24, 2012 at 18:10

Hi brothers and sisters,
I'm sharing an article about the solidarity rally with striking Caterpillar workers, a struggle with great implications for all workers.
In solidarity,
John Bachtell
Strikers blast Caterpillar greed, reject concessions
JOLIET, Ill. - Unabashed corporate greed, is how striking workers are describing Caterpillar's efforts to slash wages and benefits while eliminating pensions and seniority rights at their plant here.
Over 1000 striking workers, their families and supporters rallied in an impressive show of solidarity at the plant gate May 11. They were greeted by a constant blare of horns from passing trucks and motorists.
Article continues: http://www.peoplesworld.org/strikers-blast-caterpillar-greed-reject...
Caterpillar workers strike against take back contract http://peoplesworld.org/caterpillar-workers-strike-against-take-bac...

You may also be interested in the following analysis by CPUSA labor secretary and SOAR leader Scott Marshall:
Labor fightback in the Great Recession
"Ten thousand times has the labor movement stumbled and bruised itself. We have been enjoined by the courts, assaulted by thugs, charged by the militia, traduced by the press, frowned upon in public opinion, and deceived by politicians. But notwithstanding all this and all these, labor is today the most vital and potential power this planet has ever known, and its historic mission is as certain of ultimate realization as is the setting of the sun." - Eugene V. Debs
Reading this quotation today, over 100 years later, you are struck by two things. How appropriate, how up to date, and how well it fits labor's situation today. At the same time, 108 years later, you are bound to wonder, how is it that labor can be so bruised and battered yet again?
Article continues: http://peoplesworld.org/labor-fightback-in-the-great-recession/

Comment by Joe Balkis on May 24, 2012 at 18:07

Palestinian Prisoners Score Heroic Victory Struggle to End Israel’s Oppression and International Complicity Continues

Israeli authorities were forced to comply with the prisoners’ demands. Coinciding with the Palestinian commemoration of the Nakba, the campaign of ethnic cleansing that uprooted most Palestinians from their homeland around 1948, the prisoners’ victory has heightened hope about the prospects for Palestinian freedom, justice, self determination and the return of refugees. This triumph for the Palestinian struggle couldn't have been reached without the resolve of the prisoners themselves, grassroots mobilization in their support in Palestine, and the wave of solidarity and calls for holding Israel accountable that the strike has triggered around the world. More than a thousand people around the globe have pledged to undertake a 24-hour hunger strike in solidarity with the prisoners.  While the solidarity hunger-strike has been called off, due to the prisoners' victory, illegal repression continue in Israeli prisons. Emphasizing imprisonment as a critical component of Israel’s system of occupation practiced against the Palestinian people, Palestinian and human rights organizations have called for intensifying the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign to target corporations profiting directly from the Israeli prison system. We call for action to be taken to hold to account G4S, the world’s largest international security corporation, which helps to maintain and profit from Israel’s prison system, for its complicity with violations of international law. Please click here to demand G4S ends its involvement in the  prison system and its complicity in violations of human rights.

Comment by Joe Balkis on May 24, 2012 at 4:59

Quebec Suspends Civil Liberties in Response to the Student Strike Elizabeth Leier, Truthout: "Since the global financial meltdown of 2008, many Western countries have experienced widespread protesting and even, in some cases, rioting in the streets. This has been the year of the Occupy movement, a cry for solidarity in the face of ever-growing crony capitalism and belt tightening from governments. In Canada's francophone Province of Quebec, it is students that have mobilized this year to combat growing austerity plans and, in particular, a post-secondary tuition hike of 82 percent spread over seven years." Read the Article

Comment by Joe Balkis on May 13, 2012 at 13:16

On the 64th anniversary of Al-Nakba: there is no more time to wait, there is no more time to spare, NOW is the time for action!
https://www.facebook.com/ events/237334053037149/
WHAT: Candlelight Vigil in Support of Palestinian Political Prisoners on Hunger Strike in Israeli prisons
WHEN: Monday, May 14th, 2012             7:30 PM
WHERE: The Water Tower Park                806 N. Michigan Ave.                (corner of Chicago & Michigan Aves.)
WHY: In support of the prisoners' demands:
1. An immediate end to administrative detention, the Israeli policy of imprisoning Palestinian activists and organizers for months, and sometimes years, without any formal charges.
2. An end to the policy of solitary confinement and isolation, which have been used to deprive Palestinian prisoners of their rights for more than a decade.
3. To allow the families of prisoners from the Gaza Strip to visit. This right has been denied to all families for more than 6 years.
4. An improvement in the living conditions of prisoners and an end to the "Shalit" law, which outlaws prisoners' access to newspapers, learning materials, and many TV channels.
5. An end to the the policies of humiliation which are suffered by prisoners and their families, such as strip searches, nightly raids, and collective punishment.
The condition of the 2500+ Palestinian political prisoners on hunger strike is rapidly deteriorating.  Two of the prisoners, Bilal Diab and Thaer Halahleh, have passed their 70^th day refusing food, putting them in critical condition and close to death. The people of Palestine have stood in solidarity with the strikers; on May 9^th, Palestinian youth blocked the UN offices in Ramallah, demanding that the U.N. take a stand to save the lives of the striking prisoners. Take action now to support the demands of the prisoners, which are basic and all in accordance with Geneva Conventions.                                   The forces of the Israeli occupation in the prisons, known as the Israeli Prison Service, have done everything they can to crush the strike, including cutting off the inmates from their lawyers and refusing the strikers access to the medical clinic unless they end the hunger strike.  In addition to these measures, they have also instituted a system of collective punishment of strikers, which includes solitary confinement, daily fines up to 500 NIS ($131 USD),  and random body and cell searches. 
Despite all of this repression, the prisoners remain steadfast, most recently stating in their fourth official communication: “We vow to live with dignity or die.” 

Comment by Joe Balkis on March 23, 2012 at 5:36

IUF
Uniting food, farm and hotel workers world-wide

Spanish unions are united as never before in their mobilization against labour law 'reforms' which gut workplace protection and trade union rights and in defense of public services. A 24-hour national general strike has been called for March 29.
Spain's trade union movement is fighting back not only against their own government, but against the European-wide austerity drive which is transferring wealth and destroying public services on a massive scale. You can support their struggle by sending a message of support to the IUF's Spanish affiliates, telling them you are with them on March 29 and for as long as it takes for the government to change course.
Click here to send a message

For more information click here.
Ron Oswald General Secretary, IUF
International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers' Associations (IUF)
8, rampe du Pont-Rouge 1213 Petit Lancy, Switzerland Tel: +41 22 793 22 33 Fax: +41 22 793 22 38 website: www.iuf.org

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