AAUMC express our unconditional support with Mahalla workers in Egypt

AAUMC express our unconditional support with Mahalla in Egypt. Mahalla workers have been struggling to feed their family and fight for a life with the dignity and respect workers deserve.

Dear friends,
There is a ongoing crackdown on labor activists in Mahalla, since they staged a demonstration last October against the management's corruption:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sarahcarr/sets/72157608515197459/
http://arabist.net/arabawy/2008/11/26/renewed-crackdown-on-ghazl-el-maha...
http://delicious.com/elhamalawy/MahallaOctoberProtest

Following the demo, the management decreed the transfer of four activists from their positions:
1- Blogger Kareem el-Beheiri was moved to the Cairo office
2-Mohamed el-Attar was moved to the Alexandria office
3-Amal Said was moved to the company's nursery
4-Wedad el-Demerdash was also transferred to the nursery
http://arabist.net/arabawy/2008/11/09/crackdown-on-mahalla-labor-activis...

More alarmingly, the two women (Amal and Wedad) were sexually assaulted by thugs at the behest of the management, when they tried to enter the company compound.
http://arabist.net/arabawy/2008/11/04/mahalla_sex_asaults/

The victimized workers' colleagues are planning a demo on Saturday in solidarity. However yesterday another activist was victimized (named Wael Habib) as he was distributing leaflets in the company calling for the demo:
http://arabist.net/arabawy/2008/11/26/renewed-crackdown-on-ghazl-el-maha...
Wael has been one of the central figures in the December 2006 and September 2007 strikes...