AAUMC

Don't Sleep In, Make History! Join the Labor and Community Picket of an Israeli Ship—Oakland

Sunday, June 20, 5:30 a.m.
Port of Oakland, Berth 58, Middle Harbor Rd

Protest Israel’s Attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla!
Boycott Israeli Ships and Goods!
Lift the Blockade NOW – Let Gaza Live!
Bring Down Israel's Apartheid Wall!
Unions, labor federations and other organizations around the world have condemned Israel ’s deadly attack against the Gaza Freedom Flotilla on May 31, 2010. Nine people were killed and dozens seriously injured in the Israeli commando attack in international waters on ships attempting to bring humanitarian cargo to the suffering and blockaded people of Gaza. Six people aboard the ships are still missing and presumed dead.

Palestinian Trade Union Movement Calls on International Dockworkers Unions to Block Loading/Offloading Israeli Ships Until Israel Complies Fully with International Law and Ends its Illegal Siege of Gaza

As the San Francisco Chief of Police George Gascon rushes from one community group to another offering "apologies and clarifications" of "misunderstandings" for the second week in the diverse city of San Francisco, members of The Arab American Union Members Council continue to be appalled by San Francisco Police Chief George Gascon's March 24 remarks. Gascon spoke, allegedly in favor of an earthquake-retrofitting bill, alleging that the Hall of Justice is susceptible to "members of the city's Middle Eastern community parking a van in front of it and blowing it up." (San Francisco Chronicle, March 26, 2010)

Gascon later attempted to "clarify" his comments by claiming his remarks did not apply to the entire Arab, Muslim and broader Middle Eastern community, but instead to the Yemeni and Afghan communities in San Francisco - blatantly singling out these communities for further targeting, discrimination and injustice.

Arab American Union Members Council endorses Obama for President .

The Arab Union Members Council is urging their members and working families in the community to join the waves of change everywhere in America that is bringing hope to all working and immigrant families and their children by casting the vote for the force of the grassroots’ change for a better America and a better world. In spite of Senator Obama’s shortcoming of presenting a just and peaceful solution for Palestinians, his ideas and plans for change on health care , jobs, housings, and education brings a voice of justice and firmness to the forefront of this campaign

AAUMC calls upon labor unions in the US to support labor organizers imprisoned by the Egyptian Government, the second largest recipient of US foreign aid [$2 billion].

Members of the independent Textile Workers League: Kamal el-Fayoumi, Tarek Amin and blogger Kareem el-Beheiry were detained on the 6th of April during a two-day uprising by the urban poor and textile workers in the Nile Delta town of Mahalla, protesting the price increases of basic commodities. A strike was scheduled on that day to take place at Ghazl el-Mahalla, the largest textile mill in the Middle East and home to 27,000 workers, but was aborted by police troops occupying the factory. Peaceful demonstrations erupted in the town after the failure of the strike, and soon turned bloody with police opening fire on the protestors, killing at least three.

http://arabist.net/arabawy/2008/04/06/police-abort-mahalla-strike/