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DESCRIPTION:The Council on Foreign Relations, Our Unions and Foreign Policy\nBook 
 reading: Wall Street’s Think Tank: The Council on Foreign Relations and 
 the Empire of Neoliberal Geopolitics, 1976-2014 by Larry Shoup\n Larry 
 Shoup, author of Rulers & Rebels: A People’s History of Early California, 
 1769-1901, has now written an important new book Wall Street’s Think 
 Tank: The Council on Foreign Relations and the Empire of Neoliberal 
 Geopolitics, 1976-2014. In this reading, Shoup will look at the history of 
 the AFL-CIO in relationship to the CFI and how this has affected US 
 labor’s foreign policy.\n The CFI was set up by the biggest capitalists 
 and ideologues to develop the imperial economic interests of US 
 multi-nationals, and Shoup will examine how the AFL-CIO has been involved 
 in this organization and what it has meant concretely for workers in the US 
 and around the world.\n The AFL-CIO has taken tens of millions of dollars 
 from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and the US government for 
 international labor work around the world. It was also been involved in 
 supporting a military coup in Venezuela and other countries. The government 
 funded AFL-CIO “Solidarity Center,” and its predecessor organizations, 
 African-American Labor Center (AALC), American Institute for Free Labor 
 Development (AIFLD), and Asian-American Free Labor Institute (AAFLI), were 
 involved in setting up and supporting pro-corporate trade unions that 
 supported privatization, deregulation and “free trade,” which was being 
 pushed by the US government and US multi-nationals. \n While the unions 
 here are fighting NAFTA, CAFTA, and TPP, the Democrats, Republicans and US 
 government are pushing deregulation, privatization and “free trade 
 zones” around the world.\n Shoup will look at the ideology of the CFR and 
 how this continues to intersect the agenda of the AFL-CIO’s international 
 perspective.\nSee 
 also:\nhttp://www.thegreenarcade.com/\nhttp://www.laborfest.net/2016/2016schedule.htm\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/06/22/18787885.php
SUMMARY:Laborfest: Labor & Foreign Policy
LOCATION:Green Arcade Bookstore - 1680 Market St. at Gough, San Francisco. Van Ness 
 Metro, Civic Center BART & Muni Metro Stations
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/06/22/18787885.php
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