The Detroit Green Party
Events
Wednesday, 29 June 2005 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
You Are Cordially Invited To spend an evening hosted by:
Atty. Hugh Buck Davis Atty. Cynthia Heenan Atty. Tom Stephens
For the GRASSROOTS CANDIDATE
Maureen D. Taylor For Detroit City Council
Wednesday, June 29th, 2005 5:00pm to ???? the Anchor Bar Back Room 450 W. Fort Street Downtown Detroit
>>>>REFRESHMENTS SERVED<<
When: June 25 2005 9:00am - 4:00pm
Where: Al-Ameer Hall 12710 W Warren Ave Dearborn, MI
Meeting Agenda: (subject to change)
The Spring State Membership Meeting will hold the elections for all offices and National Committee Representatives.
If you have additional items to be added to the agenda, please contact Lou Novak at meetingmanager@migreens.org
Registration: $10.00 BEFORE June 18, $15.00 after that date or at the door.
FEE WAIVERS AVAILABLE.
Mail registrations to: Meeting Manager Louis Novak 18662 Fairfield Detroit., MI 48221, Phone (313) 623-4709, Email: meetingmanager@migreens.org
More information available at: http://www.migreens.org/convention
Sunday, June 19th 5:30 Detroit Hear representatives of the new labor movement in Iraq.
The New Iraqi Labor Movement and the Right to Organize
The right to organize must be global!
Falah Awan, President of the FWCUI, is a trained engineer who refused to sign a Saddam loyalty pledge and was subsequently barred from practicing his trade. He was an underground union organizer in factories and the construction trades during the Baathist regime and the first Gulf War.
Amjad Ali Aljawhry, Representative of the FWCUI for North America, was blacklisted by the Saddam regime because of his political views and for organizing among textile workers. He is currently the FWCUIs official representative in North America.
In 1987, Saddam Hussein dissolved trade unions and all workers were declared 'civil servants'. State-run trade unions were set up to monitor and repress workers. Other unions were illegal. The Occupation Authority has continued to enforce this 1987 decree despite mass opposition to it. The new labor movement in Iraq still has to win the right to organize as well as survive under conditions of occupation, repression, terror, and privatization.
To better understand the current situation on the right to organize in Iraq, and to help develop communication and build solidarity between U.S. and Iraqi unions, US Labor Against the War is sponsoring a national US tour of Iraqi leaders from three of the most important labor organizations in Iraq--the Iraqi Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU), the Federation of Workers Councils and Unions of Iraq (FWCUI), and the General Union of Oil Workers (GUOW). After meeting with national AFL-CIO leadership in Washington, D.C., they will spread out to visit a number of cities.
In Detroit we have the opportunity to hear from two leaders of the Federation of Workers Councils and Unions of Iraq. The FWCUI was founded in 2003 with representatives of unions, elected councils, and organizing committees in plants and enterprises. The Federations goal is to build workers organizations in Iraq that are independent, democratic and free of governmental control. Furthermore, they seek to build unions free of religious, political, gender and ethnic discrimination.
UAW Local 1700
8230 E. Eight Mile Rd (just east of Van Dyke)
Take Eight Mile Rd. exit from I75. Go east 3 miles)
Organizations and union leaders sponsoring this dialog (list in formation)
Metropolitan Detroit AFL-CIO Detroit Labor Committee for Peace and Justice National Lawyers Guild (Detroit Chapter) Coalition of Labor Union Women (Detroit Chapter) Al Benchich (President UAW Local 909) Bill Parker (President UAW Local 1700) Jerry Sullivan (President UAW Local 600)
Every Month:
3rd Thursday, Detroit Green Party meeting - Hannan House 4750 Woodward, just south of Warren Ave. Detroit MI 48201
Last Wednesday, Sweetwater Alliance Detroit meets - No Borders in Detroit 3535 Cass Ave.
