BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:www.indybay.org PRODID:-//indybay/ical// v1.0//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:Indybay-18851866 SEQUENCE:19014693 CREATED:20220901T032000Z DESCRIPTION:The Other 9/11 – the AFL-CIO’s support for the 1973 US coup in Chile betrayed workers in their country and ours – Lessons for today \nLEPAIO September 11, 2022 International Panel\nLabor Education Project On AFL-CIO International Operations LEPAIO Forum\nOn The 49tth Anniversary Of The US AFL-CIO Supported Military Coup In Chile\nSeptember 11, 2022 Sunday 4:00 PM PST/6:00 PM CST/7:00 PM EST\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/3290219617?pwd=OTFGZUVKcDd4bzVkVjl5ZS94QmdoQT09\nSpeakers:\nErnesto Rojas Urbina, Director of the Committee For Human and\nUnion Rights CODESH Chile\nLiisa Milos, CWA UPTE UCSF Member and SFLC Delegate\nCarol Lang, AFT PSC Professor & with LEPAIO\nOn September 11, 1973 the US government the CIA with the support of the and AFL-CIO overthrew the elected socialist Allende goverenment and supported a fascist military dictatorship.\nThe US government and major US corporations were unhappy with the move by the Allende government to take state control over private enterprises that controlled chile’s copper mines and telephone communications. \nTens of thousands were arrested and tortured and thousands were murdered with the support of the US government.\nIt also brought in right wing economist Milton Friedman and the Chicago boys who privatized the pension system,\ndestroyed unions, worker organizations and attacked the left. \nThe AFL-CIO has yet to confront and take responsibility for this history as it continues international operations in 60 countries through the “Solidarity Center,” funded by the US government through the National Endowment for Democracy. US workers need to call the AFL-CIO to account. \nUS working people and trade unionists need transparency and accountability for their unions here and\naround the world.\n\n\nSponsored by\nLabor Education Project On AFL-CIO International Operations\nhttps://aflcio-int.education\ninfo(at)aflcio-int.education\n\nResolution To End Government Funding Of The International Operations Of The AFL-CIO And Open The Books Of The AFL-CIO\n\n\nhttps://aflcio-int.education/resolution-to-end-government-funding-of-the-international-operations-of-the-afl-cio-and-open-the-books-of-the-afl-cio/\n \n1. Whereas, working people and members of the AFL-CIO have the right to transparency about the operations of their unions and,\n \n2. Whereas, the AFL-CIO has collaborated with the CIA, Agency For International development AID and the National Endowment for Democracy NED and,\n \n3. Whereas, workers around the world and their unions have faced attacks and subversion by this collaboration of the AFL-CIO leadership and,\n \n4. Whereas, a democratic independent trade union movement must not be funded by governments and,\n \n5. Whereas, we need real worker to worker direct solidarity and education of our mutual issues and needs and,\n \n6. Whereas, US labor faces the same attack as workers around the world of privatization, deregulation, union busting and the growth of fascist forces and,\n \n7. Whereas, the $75 million a year the AFL-CIO Solidarity Center compromises the independence of our trade union movement and,\n8. Whereas, the AFL-CIO awarded the George Meany Award to South African Chief Butthelezi who was involved in organizing armed thugs to attack and murder trade unionists including Jabu Nlovu.\n \nTherefore the AFL-CIO should acknowledge the past anti-labor practices and apologize to trade unionists, worker organizations and their families who have been violently attacked and murdered in attempted coups and other operations and therefore,\nTherefore the AFL-CIO should drop ALL contact with the National Endowment for Democracy and reject the $75 million a year it offers in blood money and,\nTherefore the AFL-CIO should open all its archives of its international operations and,\nTherefore there should be an independent labor investigation of these attacks and deaths and the AFL-CIO should compensate the workers and their families who have faced these attacks on workers rights and,\nTherefore AFL-CIO shall withdraw the George Meany award from South African Chief Buthelezi for the attacks and murders of hundreds of trade unionists and their families\nTherefore the AFL-CIO will make a public report to the membership of the AFL-CIO on their website for all members and workers to be aware of this record and,\nTherefore the AFL-CIO will now rely on self funding and mass financial campaigns of solidarity work with trade unionists and labor around the world\nhttps://aflcio-int.education/resolucion-para-acabar-con-el-financiamiento-gubernamental-de-las-operaciones-internacionales-de-la-afl-cio-y-abrir-los-libros-de-la-afl- cio/\n \n1. Considerando que los trabajadores y miembros de la AFL-CIO tienen derecho a la transparencia sobre las operaciones de sus sindicatos y,\n \n2. Considerando que la AFL-CIO ha colaborado con la CIA, la Agencia para el Desarrollo Internacional AID y el National Endowment for Democracy NED y,\n \n3. Considerando que los trabajadores de todo el mundo y sus sindicatos han enfrentado ataques y subversión por esta colaboración de la dirección de la AFL-CIO y,\n \n4. Considerando que un movimiento sindical independiente democrático no debe ser financiado por los gobiernos y,\n \n5. Considerando que necesitamos una verdadera solidaridad directa de trabajador a trabajador y educación sobre nuestros problemas y necesidades mutuos y,\n \n6. Considerando que los trabajadores de EE. UU. enfrentan el mismo ataque que los trabajadores de todo el mundo de la privatización, la desregulación, la destrucción de sindicatos y el crecimiento de las fuerzas fascistas y,\n \n7. Considerando que los $75 millones anuales del Centro de Solidaridad de la AFL-CIO comprometen la independencia de nuestro movimiento sindical y,\n8. Considerando que la AFL-CIO otorgó el Premio George Meany al jefe sudafricano Butthelezi, quien participó en la organización de matones armados para atacar y asesinar a sindicalistas, incluido Jabu Nlovu.\n \nPor lo tanto, la AFL-CIO debe reconocer las prácticas antisindicales del pasado y disculparse con los sindicalistas, las organizaciones de trabajadores y sus familias que han sido violentamente atacados y asesinados en intentos de golpe de estado y otras operaciones y, por lo tanto,\nPor lo tanto, la AFL-CIO debería abandonar TODO contacto con el National Endowment for Democracy y rechazar los $75 millones al año que ofrece como dinero sangriento y,\nPor lo tanto, la AFL-CIO debería abrir todos los archivos de sus operaciones internacionales y,\nPor lo tanto, debe haber una investigación laboral independiente de estos ataques y muertes y la AFL-CIO debe indemnizar a los trabajadores y sus familias que han enfrentado estos ataques a los derechos de los trabajadores y,\nPor lo tanto, la AFL-CIO retirará el premio George Meany al jefe sudafricano Buthelezi por los ataques y asesinatos de cientos de sindicalistas y sus familias.\nPor lo tanto, la AFL-CIO hará un informe público a los miembros de la AFL-CIO en su sitio web para que todos los miembros y trabajadores estén al tanto de este registro y,\nPor lo tanto, la AFL-CIO ahora dependerá de la autofinanciación y campañas financieras masivas de trabajo solidario con sindicalistas y trabajadores de todo el mundo.\n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2022/08/31/18851866.php SUMMARY:The Other 9/11 – the AFL-CIO’s support for the 1973 US coup in Chile betrayed workers LOCATION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/3290219617?pwd=OTFGZUVKcDd4bzVkVjl5ZS94QmdoQT09 URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2022/08/31/18851866.php DTSTART:20220911T230000Z DTEND:20220911T230000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR