Building Bridges Radio: Colombian May Day Brutality and West Coast Dockers Shut Ports

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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