Bangladesh International Human Rights Day rallies

The National Garment Workers Federation organized a rally of garment workers named "Garment Workers Human Rights Protection Rally" in the capital city Dhaka. Several hundred garment workers participated in this with red flags. It was led by the president and general secretary of the NGWF, Amirul Haque Amin and Miss Safia Pervin. From the rally it urged the government and employers to protect trade union rights in the garment sector because this is a human right. Also mentioned though according to the law garment workers have the right to organize and bargain but that is not the reality. And it happens because of the weakness of the labour laws, absence of commitment of the government and anti-union attitude of the employers.

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

"natarseen, natarsee, ma hameh baham hasteem." "be not afraid, be not afraid, we are all together." And then at the end of the video they shout "down with the dictator."

NEWS: Tuesday June 23rd: all citizens should strike, not go to work or school in honor of those who were killed in the demonstrations. call by students supporting the legal rights movement Iranian

Bus Workers Join the Resistance http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield/iranian-bus-workers-join-resistance By Al Giordano The Autobus Workers Union of Iran (Sendikaye Sherkat Vahed, in Farsi) has just made the following declaration (translated for The Field by Iraj Omidvar):

https://www.ina-newsagency.com/Report-Details.aspx?reportId=2330&back=0&type=3

There is being reported in the media a call - by the Opposition to the dodgy re-elected regime - for a general strike in Iran on Tuesday June 16th 2009.

" I think Iranian women have become canaries of the mind. If you want to guage a society and how free it is, you go to its women. Iranian women have really worked for their freedom this election. Look at their signature campaign - they choose a non-violent campaign to educate people inside and outside Iran about the country's repressive laws. They played an important role in the beginning of the last century in bringing about a constitutional revolution. In the beginning of this century, they will play a central role in changing society towards openness. " Azar Nafisi - Things I've been silent about

JUNE 26th 2009 The ITUC (International Trade Union Confederation), EI (Education International), ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation), IUF (International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers' Associations) are forming a coalition in an ongoing campaign to secure justice and trade union rights inside Iran. Amnesty International has backed this campaign. http://www.ei-ie.org/en/news/show.php?id=1032&theme=rights&country=iran

VICTORY The strike of the Iran Khodro workers to get their unpaid wages and convert temporary contracts to permanent ones ends in victory Last week the workers of Iran Khodro were successful with their glorious strike which started in the assembly hall and continued in the shuttle (body) hall and ended with the press hall strike. The workers’ immediate demands were payment of their unpaid wages (productivity and last year’s production record bonuses) and to switch workers on temporary contracts to contracts of the Iran Khodro Company itself.

Antony Loewenstein and The Blogging Revolution by Giovanni Torre 2009-04-03

Antony Loewenstein's latest book - The Blogging Revolution - documents his travels through Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iran, China and Cuba and his meetings with independent journalists and writers. He recently spoke to Indymedia.

http://perth.indymedia.org/?action=newswire&parentview=143243

Four years ago Antony Loewenstein began work on My Israel Question, a scathing critique of the occupation of Palestine. For a nice Jewish boy from Melbourne, it was a bold move. “Most of the vitriol around my work on Israel/Palestine comes from Jews, sadly, who simply refuse to accept their homeland is a rogue state that commits horrible wars crimes in the occupied territories.

Industrial Worker - Issue #1713, February/March 2009

Headlines: Starbucks: Where's Anna's Money? Workers Occupy Thomson Factory in Poland Independent Unionism in Cambodia

Features: Unionbook.org reviewed Pakistani women workers "unnamed" Wisconsin paper mill closes

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Iran: Isfahan Steel workers stage symbolic hunger strike It is reported that workers at the Isfahan Steel Mill Factory have begun a symbolic hunger strike on February 28th 2009 which will continue for two weeks. According to reports from Iran, they will not have the meals served at the factory premises. The initiative comes in protest to inappropriate working conditions and both open and veiled discriminations against workers. They are also objecting to a wide gap in pay between full time and part time employees in the factory, as well as lack of job security. Isfahan’s Steel Mill Factory has over 10,000 part time and 8,000 full time workers.