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DESCRIPTION:Special Guest Hassan Juma'a Awad, President of the Iraq Federation of Oil 
 Unions.\n\nU.S. Troops are gone but the war is not over for Iraqi 
 workers\n\nHassan Juma'a Awad, President of the Iraq Federation of Oil 
 Unions, will report on the continuing struggle of Iraqi workers for basic 
 labor rights and to keep Iraq's oil resources from falling under the 
 control of multinational oil companies. Iraq's public sector workers 
 (including its oil sector) still do not have the legal right to organize 
 and bargain more than 10 years after the end of the 
 dictatorship.\n\nEarlier this year Hassan faced criminal charges filed by 
 the Oil Ministry in retaliation for worker strikes that took place in 
 reaction to broken promises, unsafe working conditions, refusal to 
 recognize the union and threatened privatization of Iraqi oil. He was 
 accused of under mining the Iraqi Economy. \n\nAn international campaign 
 organized by U.S. Labor Against the War, Solidarity Center and the Iraq 
 Civil Society Solidarity Initiative demanded that all charges be dropped 
 and that Iraq enact a basic labor law to protect the rights of all workers. 
 After months of delays, in early July all charges were dismissed when the 
 Ministry and South Oil Company could provide no evidence to support its 
 claims of economic subversion. \n\nIn addition to Hassan Juma'a's report on 
 Iraq, members of Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW), Civilian-Soldier 
 Alliance and Catalyst Project will report on the "Right to Heal" Campaign 
 that IVAW has launched in collaboration with the Organization for Women's 
 Freedom in Iraq, the Federation of Workers Councils and Unions in Iraq and 
 the Center for Constitutional \nRights in DC in recognition that the Iraq 
 war is not over for the Iraqi people or U.S. veterans who continue to 
 struggle with various forms of trauma and injury; for Iraqis and veterans 
 who suffer the effects of environmental poisoning due to use of chemical 
 and depleted uranium munitions and burn pits of hazardous material; and for 
 a growing generation of orphans and people displaced by war. \n\nAttorney 
 Inder Comar will describe a class action lawsuit filed on behalf of Iraqi 
 refugees against George Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, 
 Condoleeza Rice and Paul Wolfowitz for war crimes committed against the 
 Iraqi people in the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq. Code Pink is 
 supporting this effort.\n\nCosponsored and endorsed by: U.S. Labor Against 
 the War, Iraq Veterans Against the War, the Alameda Labor Council, the San 
 Francisco Labor Council, SEIU Local 1021 Peace and Solidarity Committee, 
 Bay Area Labor Committee for Peace & Justice, International Solidarity 
 Movement, Free Palestine Movement, Code Pink, American Friends Service 
 Committee, Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian-Universalists, Civilian-Soldier 
 Alliance, Catalyst Project, Wellstone Democratic Renewal Club, San 
 Francisco Green 
 Party.\n\nuslaboragainstwar.org\nivaw.org\nrighttoheal.org\ncivsol.org\ncodepink.org\nalamedalabor.org\nsflaborcouncil.org\nseiu1021.org\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/09/10/18743057.php
SUMMARY:Oil, Unions & the Struggle for Democracy & Human Rights in Post-Occupation Iraq
LOCATION:Alameda Labor Council, 100 Hegenberger Road, Oakland
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/09/10/18743057.php
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