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EVENTS & GROUPS

Upcoming Events
Below are some activities you’re invited to, along with contact information for a range of local organizations (many of them NNOC members, though not all). Use the list to the right to jump to your location in North America or just scroll down. (Africa, Asia, Europe, Oceania, and South America contact information is in the 'International Solidarity' category of the links section.)

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updated Tuesday 20 February 2007

NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL

Please note these two national U.S./Canadian speaking tours:

Bernie Dwyer on The Covert U.S. War Against Cuba

Bernie Dwyer is the co-director and producer of "The Day Diplomacy Died", "Mission Against Terror: The Case of the Cuban 5" and a Radio Havana Cuba correspondent.

The US has waged a covert war against Cuba for over 50 years, much of it under the radar of the American public. The frame-ups of the 5 Cuban political prisoners in the U.S. and the case of Miami CIA terrorist Posada Carriles illustrate this. "Human rights" and "democracy" are used as code words for US aggression against Cuba. The "dissidents" movement in Cuba is used as a US tool to undermine the Cuban social system.

This new documentary by Bernie Dwyer and Roberto Ruiz Rebo exposes the story behind the lock-up of 75 "independent" journalists, trade unionists, and librarians in Cuba in 2003 through the eyes of four ex-Cuban state agents working undercover. The mainstream media never fully investigates the role played by the US diplomats in Cuba in controlling the "dissidents" movement. In this film former Cuban undercover agents speak out for the first time on film about the inner workings of the dissident groups they infiltrated and the various plans, supported by the U.S. government, that were being developed to destabilize Cuba.

Tour begins 18 March in Toronto and ends in Detroit on 18 April. Scroll down or click on your city or country to the right for times and locations. For national information contact Stan Smith, Chicago Committee to Free the Cuban 5, 773-376-7521 uscubachi(at)yahoo.com

Workers Struggle Beyond Borders: Uniting the Peoples of Nuestra América

Wisconsin private sector and public workers in the tens of thousands thrust their fight against a union-busting law into news front pages. More than two years ago, the Mexican Electrical Union [SME] were robbed of their collective bargaining rights. Their union was declared illegal. The pro-big business Mexican government forced 44,000 workers out of their jobs at Mexico's second largest electrical power distributor, Luz y Fuerza (Central Light and Power), jeopardizing not only the workers but the income of pensioners. Find out how their struggle is like the one faced in the U.S. from the workers on the front lines in Mexico and from a Cuban representative of the World Federation of Trade Unions who will present some of the alternatives already in process in the Americas. An injury to one is an injury to all. There are no borders in the workers struggle against capitalism. Come out to learn about our common interests and struggles and the need for mutual solidarity.

Gilda Chacon Bravo, Federacion Sindical Mundial - Americas; Cuba
Humberto Montes de Oca, Interior Secretary, Sindicato Mexicano de Electricistas (Mexican Electrical Workers Union)
Pipino Cuevas, Secretary of Health and Social Welfare, Sindicato Mexicano de Electricistas (Mexican Electrical Workers Union)
Jorge Cazares, Representing Section VIII of the National Steering Committee of Education Workers (CNTE); Mexico (VISA DENIED by the U.S. government)

In addition to Chicago, Dearborn, Los Angeles, New York, and San Diego (scroll down or click on city on the right for times and locations) there are also these two meetings:

Friday March 18th at 5pm (reception) and 6:15pm (program)
UAW Local 1005
5615 Chevrolet Blvd.
Parma, OH 44130

Saturday March 19th at 6pm
Farm Labor Organizing Committee
1221 Broadway
Toledo, OH 43609

Go to http://uniondelbarrio.org/laverdad for downloadable leaflets for public events.

To schedule interviews or additional meetings contact: laborexchange(at)aol.com or 313 575-4933 or 313 355-8566; info(at)uniondelbarrio.org or 619-398-6648.

You can help deliver this delegation's message of international solidarity through a financial contribution to help with travel expenses. Your donation will enable the delegation to meet with immigrant and other community-based organizations that don't have deep pockets. To make an on-line donations press the DONATE button at: LaborExchange.blogspot.com