8th U.S./Cuba/Mexico/Latin America Labor Conference
You are
invited . . . won't you join
us?
This Dec. 2, 3
and 4 workers from the U.S., Cuba, Mexico, Brazil,
Venezuela, Argentina and other Latin American countries will
analyze the global capitalist crisis, its effects on workers
throughout the hemisphere and with real examples showing how
to combat it. Three days of intensive classes and discussion
-- Nov. 29, 30 and Dec. 1 , with teachers from Cuba's Lazaro
Pena workers' school -- will precede the
conference.
Contact us by email at:
LaborExchange@gmail.com
downloadable bilingual leaflets at:
http://uniondelbarrio.org/events/tijuanaConfSindical2011.html
Do you know that for the past four years Labor Federations in Latin America have met to develop a common program? The August 2011 meeting was in Nicaragua and will be held in Mexico in 2012. Representatives from this Encuentro Sindical Nuestra America are joining us. Youth from the Tijuana Opera are singing for the Cuban Five. Chilean singer Ismael Duran will sing songs of struggle.
Your experience, thoughts, and ideas
are important to this conference and workers' school as we
progress toward working class continental integration and
class-wide unity to face the bosses and bankers who are destroying
our futures.
Learn more about the Cuban Five unjustly
held in U.S. prisons, why they were needed in the U.S. to
prevent terrorism and what unions around the world are doing
for their freedom. See the Saul Landau movie, "Will the real terrorist please stand up?"
All events will be at the Hotel Palacio Azteca in Tijuana,
Mexico with a special Cuba Labor
Conference room rate that includes a marvelous
breakfast buffet ($81 single, $116 double). Call now to
reserve your rooms, toll free from the U.S.: 1 888 901
3720/
Registration -- requested by Nov. 20 -- for conference or
classes and hotel information is
at:
LaborExchange.blogspot.com
Tijuana conference to take up hemisphere’s
struggles
By Cheryl LaBash
Where is the electrifying Occupy Wall Street
movement headed?
From capitalist media pundits to the Occupy Wall
Street encampments struggling to hold public space in
countless cities and towns across the U.S., this question is
bubbling underneath the daily actions and police
repression.
An opportunity to discuss the experience of other such
movements will take place just across the U.S. border from
San Diego in Tijuana, Mexico, on Dec. 2 to 4 at the 8th
U.S./Cuba/Mexico/Latin America Labor Conference. It will
follow a three-day Workers’ School with instructors
from the Lázaro Peña Cadre School in Havana,
Cuba. Online registration and information are available at
http://LaborExchange.blogspot.com.
Occupations, general strikes and militant marches are
being renewed in th e U.S. today. On May 1, 2006, the
massive immigrant rights marches were effectively general
strikes in many areas. This national movement had a strong
impact.
Earlier this year, tens of thousands mobilized daily to
support an occupation of Wisconsin’s Capitol in
Madison to challenge an anti-worker program. Through all
this, the working class is learning to take action in its
own name.
In Central and South America and the Caribbean,
workers, Indigenous people and rural farmers have walked
this path before us. They have been on the receiving end of
imperialist economic domination, coup d’états,
military dictatorships and rigged elections sponsored
by the United States.
Today the Mexican electrical workers
are occupying the central square in Mexico City, which they
have held since March. Chilean and Colombian students are
fighting for education rights. Moreover, tiny Cuba has held
off the imperialist giant to the north poised to destroy
them for more than 50 years with a battle of ideas and
profound unity.
The Oakland call for a citywide general strike and march
to the port on Nov. 2 to “block the flow of
capital” states the truth: “The Oakland General
Strike will demonstrate the wide reaching implications of
the Occupy Wall Street movement. The entire world is fed up
with the huge disparity of wealth caused by the present
system. Now is the time that the people are doing something
about it. The Oakland General Strike is a warning shot to
the 1 percent: Their wealth only exists because the 99
percent creates it for them.”
That is true. For those who want to discuss where this
truth can take us with active builders of independent social
orders, send a representative to the December conference in
Tijuana. We have a world to win!
the Conference
solidarity evening is moved to Saturday, Dec. 3. A musical
tribute to the Cuban Five by young Tijuana Opera singers and the
new video “Will the real terrorist please stand
up?” aim to inspire increased union action on this
important campaign.