[radio] Building Bridges: Colombian May Day Brutality; U.S. Dockers Shut Ports
 
Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 05:35:23 -0500 (CDT)


Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report
                                National Edition
         Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
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         West Coast Dockers Shut Down Ports
              As Workers Say No To War
                                   with
Clarence Thomas, Ex. Board member, Local 10 ILWU
Danny Glover, Actor & Human Rights Activist
Cynthia McKinney, Former Congresswoman and
Presidential Candidate
Cindy Sheehan, Anti-War Activist, Candidate for Congress

Tens of thousands of docks, members of the International Longshore
& Warehouse Union shut down the west coast ports in a protest
against the war. While an arbitrators decision prevented the ILWU
from officially sponsoring the strike, its members turned out en masse.
The stand-down at ports including Los Angeles and Long Beach,
which handle 40% of the imported goods arriving in the United States
each year idled ships and halted movement of about 10,000 containers
during the eight-hour stoppage.
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Colombian Workers Brutalized at May Day Protests
                                      with
Edgar Paes, International Dir. SINALTRAINAL
(the union of Coca Cola workers)

The Bush Administration continues to push through a new free trade
agreement with Colombia despite its history of assassinations and
repression of trade unionists. The Colombian government claims its
fighting that violence, which it says is perpetuated by paramilitary
organizations. However, when Building Bridges reporters called
Colombia on May 1, 2008 to speak with Javier Correa, Pres. of the
Sinaltrainal union we learned that more than one hundred workers at
their May Day demonstrations had been arrested, many were beaten
and some had been disappeared .
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