Barbara Shailor: "We Stand with Iraqi Workers!"

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Description: Sharing her views on the undemocratic and unfair labor situation in U.S.-Occupied Iraq was Barbara Shailor, Director of International Affairs Department for the AFL-CIO. Background: The puppet regime installed in Iraq by the Bush-Cheney Gang has banned all trade unions. A rally protesting the suppression of workers' rights in that country was held on Aug. 16, 2007. It was sponsored by the AFL-CIO, its Solidarity Center, and the Washington, D.C. Labor Council. The event was held in front of the Republic of Iraq Embassy, at 3421 Massachusetts Ave., N.W. For more background on this and related issues, see: statement of Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH), found at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTb3SLa_2VE, along Ms. Antonia Juhasz's Op Ed piece in the NYT, on March 13, 2007, located at: http://www.bushagenda.net/article.php... along with her statement at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2HCR6... also, more comments by Rep. Kucinich found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26Lr17... along with the remarks of union official, Ms. Denice Lombard, who is with U.S. Labor Against the War, found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyJ9Bs.. Also see: http://www.uslaboragainstwar.org/