'We Stand With You as You Stood With Us': Statement to Workers of Wisconsin by Egypts Trade Unions

[kpete]

February 20th, 2011 3:45 PM
'We Stand With You as You Stood With Us': Statement to Workers of Wisconsin by Kamal Abbas of Egypt's Centre for Trade Unions and Workers Services

About Kamal Abbas and the Centre for Trade Unions and Workers Services:

Kamal Abbas is General Coordinator of the CTUWS, an umbrella advocacy organization for independent unions in Egypt. The CTUWS, which was awarded the 1999 French Republic's Human Rights Prize, suffered repeated harassment and attack by the Mubarak regime, and played a leading role in its overthrow. Abbas, who witnessed friends killed by the regime during the 1989 Helwan steel strike and was himself arrested and threatened numerous times, has received extensive international recognition for his union and civil society leadership.


English translation follows, below:

(snippet)

We and all the people of the world stand on your side and give you our full support.

As our just struggle for freedom, democracy and justice succeeded, your struggle will succeed. Victory belongs to you when you stand firm and remain steadfast in demanding your just rights.

We support you. we support the struggle of the peoples of Libya, Bahrain and Algeria, who are fighting for their just rights and falling martyrs in the face of the autocratic regimes. The peoples are determined to succeed no matter the sacrifices and they will be victorious.

Today is the day of the American workers. We salute you American workers! You will be victorious. Victory belongs to all the people of the world, who are fighting against exploitation, and for their just rights.

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[targetpractice]

1. Work it.

[Poboy]

2. Oh, this is good. This needs media push.

[Ikonoklast]

3. Stuff like this makes the autocrats uneasy.

One thing they would hate to see is a world-wide labor solidarity movement.




Oh my, that would upset the applecart now, wouldn't it?

[snappyturtle]

4. It surely would...rightfully so! I'm so glad for the give 'n take of global support!

I think when we (citizens of the planet)recognize our similarities wars will cease. Peace.

[Hardrada]

5. All power to the workers!

[EC]

6. I wonder if Scotty is shitting his pants or

creaming them since it's gone worldwide?

[Ikonoklast]

8. This just may be the tipping point.

The Republicans are completely over-playing their hand; they think they had some sort of 'mandate' after taking the House, except...except...even the Teabaggers are getting uneasy as some of them and their jobs are now in the oligarch's crosshairs.


If Republican governors want to destroy the unions in their states, then they better be ready for the backlash from voters as the infrastructure of their states collapses and employers start screaming about the crummy roads, unplowed streets, bad sewer and water pipes, and a thousand other things that businesses depend on daily to work correctly in order for them to function.

Let alone being able to hire workers educated enough to at least read, write, and do basic math.


There are good reasons businesses don't locate in areas with little or bad infrastructure...it costs them MONEY.

[roguevalley]

7. I could hug the world tonight. :)