Industrial Workers of the World

Denouncing Repression in Honduras Audio files and radio at http://albatv.org/

Today, Monday 29 June at 2.45pm in Honduras, the Armed Forces and National Police suppressed more than 50,000 protestors who were in front of the Casa de Gobierno (Government House) defending their democracy based on the rule of law. Faced with the coup d’état against President Manuel Zelaya Rosales, the protesters were demonstrating peacefully demanding the return of our President Zelaya because we are not willing to accept any post-coup government such as that of Micheleti.

The soldiers suppressed us with weapons and tear gas and due to this various people from the popular movement were injured. This action dispersed the protestors. The brutal repression by the Armed Forces of Honduras towards approximately 50.000 protestors with men and women being pushed back left 75 people injured, 3 dead and 30 arrest warrants issued. The situation for popular leaders is quite difficult as the coup government is repressive and shows no mercy with those of us who don’t accept the said government.

Six trade unionists in Kanaky (New Caledonia) have been sentenced to jail and a further 18 union activists recieved suspended sentences! Gerard Jodar, leader of the Union of Kanaky and Exploited Workers (USTKE), was sentenced to one year prison. Mr Safoka, who works closely with Mr Jodar, has also been condemned to one year in jail. Two other union activists were given ten months of jail, another one six months, another one four months. The convictions stem from a industrial dispute with Air Caledonie in May, when hundreds of people stormed Magenta airport.

Speaking to reporters, the USTKE founder and leader of the Labour Party, Louis Kotra Uregei, questions the type of justice that send unionists to prison. “I strongly condemn this type of decision and I’m calling on those who have trusted us and trust us to fight alongside us so that this country one day frees itself of this colonial justice.” There will be a massive marches in Nouméa this Saturday to demand the freedom of all the political prisoners.

Links: USTKE (in French) http://www.ustke.org/

http://BeyondTalk.net World Leaders Thank Arrestees, Avert Climate Disaster

In a front-page ad in today's International Herald Tribune, the leaders of the European Union thank the European public for having engaged in months of civil disobedience leading up to the Copenhagen climate conference that will be held this December. "It was only thanks to your massive pressure over the past six months that we could so dramatically shift our climate-change policies.... To those who were arrested, we thank you." There was only one catch: the paper was fake.

Looking exactly like the real thing, but dated December 19th, 2009, a million copies of the fake paper were distributed worldwide by thousands of volunteers in order to show what could be achieved at the Copenhagen climate conference that is scheduled for Dec. 7-18, 2009. (At the moment, the conference is aiming for much more modest cuts, dismissed by leading climate scientists as too little, too late to stave off runaway processes that will lead to millions or even billions of casualties.)

“Everyone who is needs housing should occupy empty buildings, but as Anne Keene voted in favour of the war in Iraq, displacing and killing millions of people, we demand she gets in touch with refugee centres to make reparations. In the meantime, the house will hopefully become a refugee centre and home to some of the people she made homeless through poverty and war.”

The group are asking for solidarity. Donations of food and water, bedding, hinges and screws are to be taken to: 38 Brook Rd South, Brentford, TW8 0NN http://libcom.org/forums/news/housing-activists-seize-mps-home-28062009

Listen to Radio Liberada, from somewhere in Honduras, after the military coup Listen to the transmission of Radio Liberada from somewhere in Honduras: http://208.43.218.127:8070/

Before and after the military coup in Honduras, Radio Liberada has been transmitting a live chronicle of what is happening in Honduras, its opposition, and the mobilizations by popular and indigenous organizations against the coup and for the undertaking of a new constitutional assembly. The radio is writing a new page in the free media movement in Central America. We are asking for free media collectives in the country and throughout the world to retransmit or mirror this transmission. Coverage in the Radio es lo de menos: http://www.radioeslodemenos.org/

Coverage from the Independent Media Center in Honduras: http://honduras.mediosindependientes.org

Minute by minute by Kaos en la Red: http://www.kaosenlared.net/noticia/secuestrado-presidente-honduras-militares

Coverage and transmission by the Association of Radios and Participatory Programs of El Salvador (ARPAS): http://www.arpas.org.sv/

Costas Gavras Talks About Z, 40 Years Later June 2009 By John Esther http://www.zmag.org/zmag/viewArticle/21610

A riveting action thriller about political assassination at the highest levels, this year marks the 40th anniversary of Z. Not the magazine in front of you, but the Academy Award-winning 1969 film co-written and directed by Costas Gavras (AKA Costa-Gavras) about a Judge (played by Jean-Louis Trintignant) who looks into the death of the Deputy (also referred to as Comrade Z, played by Yves Montand) who was about to give a speech on nuclear disarmament. Deliberately dissident, claiming its intention to resemble the U.S.-backed military coup of Greece in the early 1960s and the events surrounding the assassination of democratic Greek politician Gregoris Lambrakis in 1963, Gavras's film touched a nerve with audiences still reeling from the JFK, RFK, and MLK assassinations. While Gavras has made many political films—Missing, Music Box, and Amen—his film titled after the banned letter, which was a symbolic reminder that Lambrakis (he) lives on—remains his masterpiece.

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who also did a gig for IWW on Mayday in U.K. IWW Preamble read out: http://www.youtube.com/user/PAKITV

another benefit planned for refugees in Pakistan on 17th July...

SITUATIONS VACANT IWW Australia plans to bring out a CD compilation of rebel worker music & songs please consider your favourites and new ones ? A new picket line song competition by Wobbly Radio in NSW a few years back produced the May Day May Day compilation of union songs. 2009 efforts should be great too !

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Read Situationist Worker

http://www.alytusbiennial.com/index.php/a-situationist-worker

Situationist Worker – The End of the Age of Divinity: http://antisystemic.org/SW/TheEndOfTheAgeOfDivinity-Enkutatach409.pdf

No not the Rolling Stones Street Fighting Man machismo chant but collective action to resist arrests especially for women.

Translation from Khiaban Issue 5: “Street Combat Techniques”

The following is an English translation of an article on advice for Iranian street protesters. It appeared in issue 5 of Khiaban Newspaper (The Street) dated 23 June 2009. Source: http://irangcc.wordpress.com/2009/06/24/translation-from-khiaban-issue-5-%e2%80%9cstreet-combat-techniques%e2%80%9d/

( For those outside the workplace ) “Street Combat Techniques” What follows is a brief guide for keeping the street protests alive and safe, as well as slowing or halting the advance of the security forces. This column is divided into two parts, the first of which you can read today, and the second part in the next issue of the ‘Street’ newspaper.

In Melbourne outside Parliament train station approximately 1,000 leaflets were distributed in solidarity with jailed unionists in Iran from 7:30am to 9am on Friday 26 June More information: Victor Moore, Rail, Tram & Bus Union 0475 512 494 source AAWL on 3CR's 9am Saturday's Asia Pacific Currents radio show interview Saturday June 27th http://www.3cr.org.au/asiapac

MUA members and officials joined around 300 unionists, workers and members of the Australian Iranian community outside the Iranian Embassy 25 Culgoa Circuit O'Malley 12 noon Friday 26 June in Canberra, protesting against the repression of workers' rights in Iran. Watch the video by MUA film maker and waterside worker COOPER SILK http://www.mua.org.au/news/mua-joins-international-protests-against-worker-re/

VIDEO of first action of the day of Global Solidarity NZ ITF unions at the protest rallyn outside the Iranian Embassy In Wellington NZ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXcq3mghcms

More regions and action see: http://www.justiceforiranianworkers.org/

Iran news on Labour Start http://www.labourstart.org/cgi-bin/show_news.pl?country=Iran