tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23948057.post2296264122186750701..comments2009-05-02T16:14:20.899-04:00Ben Burdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06372169478978720740ben@eagle.caBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23948057.post-62615563296654020192009-05-02T16:09:00.000-04:002009-05-02T16:09:00.000-04:00I have posted an image of a pamphlet distributed by the Industrial Workers of the World back in 1918. It was part of an exhibition at the New York Public Library 1985 called: CENSORSHIP, 500 Years of Conflict.<br /><br />http://cobourgtown.blogspot.com/2009/05/is-freedom-dead.htmlWally Keelerhttp://cobourgtown.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23948057.post-40549106570258337922009-05-01T09:53:00.000-04:002009-05-01T09:53:00.000-04:00There are those who proselytize "Live and let live". There are those union leaders who demonize only one side of the equation. While it is good to remember our own past, it should not be at the expense of ignoring our complacency about the more egregious offences against unionists in other parts of the world.<br /><br />http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2007/07/2008525172856148863.html<br /><br />In June 2008, the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions said Hamas seized their headquarters and ordered the union's staff to discuss how they were to operate under Hamas rule.<br />According to Shaher Saed, general secretary of the PGFTU, the union refused to negotiate. As a result, Saed said, three assassination attempts were made by Hamas on Rasem Al Bayari, the union's deputy general secretary, which included a rocket attack on his home in January and the bombing of his office in February.<br /><br />http://feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=11550<br /><br />Two Iranian women were punished by flogging last week for their participation in May Day celebrations last year. The women, Sussan Razani and Shiva Kheirabadi, are two of four labor activists convicted and sentenced as a result of the celebration. Similar sentences were carried out last year in relation to workers who had celebrated May Day in 2007.<br /><br />http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9506E5DB1331F935A2575AC0A9609C8B63<br /><br />A top leader of Zimbabwe's Congress of Trade Unions was in a hospital in Harare, the capital, after being beaten by police officers who violently broke up a union protest against the government's economic and civil liberties policies, his lawyer said. The union official, Wellington Chibebe, was one of 15 protesters taken to Parirenyatwa Hospital under police guard; the other 14 were treated and returned to a police jail, the lawyer, Alec Muchadehma, told Agence France-Presse.Wally (subversive) Keelerhttp://poetency.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23948057.post-47942186772634068552009-05-01T08:15:00.000-04:002009-05-01T08:15:00.000-04:00Thanks for this great post, Ben, and for the link to the radio broadcast in CBC's archives.William Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14237954496211789520noreply@blogger.com