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True Colors Annual Conference XIX |
 North East Digital VillageUnited in the Name of PeaceWe don't ask that you agree, just that you take a look and take from our site what is useful to you. Beyond all, we support your right not to be just like us; not to think just like us. We ask the same from you.
Cities for PeaceCities for Peace: Cities and towns are calling for a reordering of national priorities such that diplomacy and international law will sustain peace and foster prosperity in the world, in our nation and in our struggling states and localities. Visit citiesforpeace to see how your city or town can participate in campaigns to achieve these goals. Below is a list of northeast city and county council and related resolutions opposing preemptive/unilateral War in Iraq.
The world's record on education for peace has been weak . . . In the next generation, we have a mission to stimulate large numbers of students on every continent to reflect seriously on human conflict, its causes and its consequences, and ways to prevent its deadly outcome . . . US Labor on WarWhy is Labor Against the War? The war is not just in iraq and it's not just in Afganistan, it's in my hometown and yours. the war is in Washington, it's in New York and Chicago, in Los Angeles and Des Moines. The war is in your city, your town, your community and it's a war on you and me. Why wouldn?t labor be against the war on Americans who are out of work, Americans who are poor, Americans who don't have health care or access to a good education? Why wouldn't labor be against the war on Americans who are homeless or sick and Americans who dare to dissent, Americans who are patriotic enough to believe that we can and do make a difference? Why wouldn't labor be against the war on working people harassed, intimidated and fired for daring to speak up for a voice at work? . . . U.S. Labor, brothers and sisters, is for peace and justice. peace starts at home; peace starts when we make a difference and we make a difference every day when we go to work; we make a difference when we say that we do not support this war, not the one at home and not the one against Iraq. Justice begins when we organize in our communities; justice begins when we mobilize our friends and our neighbors, not just in the labor movement, but in the religious community, in the schools, in the neighborhood and community groups. Go home, brothers and sisters; go home and organize for peace, go home and mobilize for justice! [COMPLETE STORY]
Labor on War News & ArticlesJune 27th, 2006: USLAW calls for solidarity actions by U.S. labor movement: The Iraqi regime has frozen the bank accounts of Iraqi labor unions under Decree 8750 adopted in 2005. The decree gave the Iraqi authorities the power to seize all union funds and prevent them from being dispensed for union activity. To justify the 2005 anti-union decree, the regime used the pretext of promising a future law to "regulate" trade union organizations and their activities. No law recognizing and respecting labor rights was adopted. Decree 8750 is still in effect. The "election" of a government has changed nothing. [COMPLETE STORY] January 25th, 2006: ICFTU Condemns Murder of trade union leader: Alaa Issa Khalaf, a member of the Executive Board of the Baghdad branch of the mechanics union, and a prominent member of the recently created General Federation of Iraqi Workers, GFIW, has been killed. He was shot dead at around 7.30 am on January 25 by several unidentified men as he left for work from his home in Baghdad. In a letter to the authorities of the country, the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) firmly condemned what it considers to be a targeted attack on a trade union activist. [COMPLETE STORY] January 12th, 2006: Slaying the Unemployed People Reveals the Real Face of the US Occupation and Its Appointed Government: Thousands of people took to the street demanding job opportunities; they marched towards the city hall building in a peaceful demonstration, denouncing the unemployment and its impact. The current authorities who promised a lot during the election campaign such as delivering better social services and job creation, have revealed their real faces and the extent of human hatred they stock up, giving the fact that they responded with opening fire on the people for the second time in one week . . . [COMPLETE STORY] December 31st, 2005: Disunity Threatens Iraqi's Resistance to Occupation: The cracking towers and gas flares of the al-Daura oil refinery rise above the neighborhood on Baghdad's outskirts that bears its name. On February 18, Ali Hassan Abd (Abu Fahad), a leader of the refinery's union, was walking home from work with his young children, when gunmen ran up and shot him. Abu Fahad had been one of 400 union activists who emerged from the underground or returned from exile in May 2003, and at a Baghdad conference formed the Iraqi Federation of Trade Unions. [COMPLETE STORY] 21 June 2005: Iraqi Union Leaders Speak About Occupation: Falah Awan and Amjad Ali Aljawhry spoke about the effects of military occupation on Iraqi society and the country's labor union movement. Awan is president of the Federation of Workers Councils and Unions of Iraq (FWCUI) and Aljawhry is representative of the FWCUI and the Union of the Unemployed in Iraq (UUI) for North America. Both workers’ organizations want independent, democratic unions free of government control.
[COMPLETE STORY] March 15, 2004: Report on Geneva March 15 2004 discussion with Swiss unionists: In the tradition of solidarity of the Swiss labor movement in relation to the international workers' organizations, a meeting took place between the delegation of the campaign "Against the Occupation and For Labor Rights in Iraq" and officials of the Metalworkers and Watchmakers Union (FTMH) of Geneva, in the offices of this federation. Publish excerpts from the discussion are available HERE November 19th, 2003: Labor Anti-War Assembly Shifts Focus to Iraqi Occupation: U.S. Labor Against the War (USLAW) . . . positioned itself as a voice inside the labor movement calling for the immediate end of the U.S. occupation and linking the war abroad to the effects of the war at home. As the new mission statement of the organization adopted at the assembly begins: "We are living in an era in which the government has manipulated our nation's fear of terrorism to launch wars, destroy our economic security, undermine government services, erode our democratic rights and intensify racism, sexism, religious discrimination and divisions among working people." [COMPLETE STORY]
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