Building Bridges Radio: Colombian May Day Brutality and West Coast Dockers Shut Ports

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Submitted by knash on Sun, 05/04/2008 - 6:35pm.

West Coast Dockers Shut Down Ports As Workers Say No To War
with
Clarence Thomas, Ex. Board member, Local 10 ILWU
Danny Glover, Actor & Human Rights Activist
Cynthia McKinney, Former Congresswoman and Presidential Candidate
Cindy Sheehan, Anti-War Activist, Candidate for Congress
Tens of thousands of docks, members of the International Longshore & Warehouse Union shut down the west coast ports in a protest against the war. While an arbitrators decision prevented the ILWU from officially sponsoring the strike, its members turned out en masse. The stand-down at ports including Los Angeles and Long Beach, which handle 40% of the imported goods arriving in the United States each year idled ships and halted movement of about 10,000 containers during the eight-hour stoppage.
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Colombian Workers Brutalized at May Day Protests
with
Edgar Paes, International Dir. SINALTRAINAL (the union of Coca Cola workers)

The Bush Administration continues to push through a new free trade agreement with Colombia despite its history of assassinations and repression of trade unionists. The Colombian government claims its fighting that violence, which it says is perpetuated by paramilitary organizations. However, when Building Bridges reporters called Colombia on May 1, 2008 to speak with Javier Correa, Pres. of the Sinaltrainal union we learned that more than one hundred workers at their May Day demonstrations had been arrested, many were beaten and some had been disappeared .
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To Download or listen to this 28:30 minute
program go to: http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=27487 or http://www.archive.org/details/BuildingBridgesRadioColombianMayDayBrutalityU.s.DockersShutPorts

for more information contact Ken Nash - knash@igc.org

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