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DESCRIPTION:On The 50th Anniversary of Chile Coup- Special Free Screening of, 'Nae 
 Pasaran’ \nScottish Workers Take Solidarity Action To Support Chilean 
 Workers & People Against Pinochet Dictatorship\n8/26/23 \nSaturday August 
 26, 2023 3PM PST/5PM CST/6PM EST\n\nTo Register\nSaturday August 26, 2023 
 3PM PST/5PM CST/6PM 
 EST\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcpd--qqz0qHNVOO2eqol1EUVPKHoPAbQOl 
 \nThe feature-length film tells the story of four Scotsmen - Bob Fulton, 
 John Keenan, Robert Somerville and Stuart Barrie - who along with their 
 workmates \ndowned tools and refused to service and repair engines for the 
 Chilean air force's British-made Hawker Hunter jet fighters. It explores 
 just how significant \ntheir actions were in depriving the Chilean military 
 dictatorship of much of its air power, contrary to the latter's claims at 
 the time, through witness statements \nnot only from several victims of the 
 1973 military coup but also from the unrepentant former Chilean Air Force 
 chief Fernando Rojas Vender.[4]\n\nThere will be a  panel with guest trade 
 unionists from Chile & also a  short video about the heroic experience and 
 work of the Cordones Industriales (Workers Councils). The Workers 
 \nCouncils fought against the US economic blockade and the Chilean ruling 
 class-created scarcity and black market by instituting worker controlled 
 factories and production lines. \n\nSponsored by: \n\nLabor Education 
 Project On AFL-CIO Internatonal Operatons 
 LEPAIO\nhttps://aflcio-int.education\ninfo@aflcio-int.education \n\nCODEHS, 
 Comité en Defensa de Derechos Humanos y Sindicales-Clotario 
 Blest\n\n(Committee in Defense of the Human and Trade Union Rights-Clotario 
 Blest) \n\nReview: 'Nae Pasaran' is One Of The Most Powerful Documentaries 
 I Have Ever 
 Seen\nhttps://www.pajiba.com/film_reviews/review-nae-pasaran-is-one-of-the-most-powerful-documentaries-i-have-ever-seen.php\n\nOn 
 September 10, 2023 there will be an national educational conference on the 
 Chilean coup and on September 11 at 12 noon there will\nbe a rally at the 
 AFL-CIO in Washington, DC\n\n\nOn May Day 2023, Chilean Workers Letter To 
 US Workers & AFL-CIO On The 50th Anniversary Of The 9/11 Chilean 
 Coup\nCODEHS May 1, 2023 Statement\nThe Committee for the Defense of Human 
 and Trade Union Rights, Clotario Blest wouldn like to greet the workers of 
 the people of the United States and give an especially warm greeting to our 
 brothers and sisters of the ILWU for this day May 1, 2023.\nWe will never 
 forget the ILWU's solidarity with the Chilean people by refusing to load 
 Pinochet's ships with US military armaments and with one voice worldwide 
 they denounced and highlighted the true face of the US empire and its 
 nefarious interventionist policy.\nWe would also like to extend a warm 
 greeting to our brothers and sisters of LEPAIO, Labor Education Project on 
 AFLCIO International Operations and LaborFest.\nIt is with that same 
 purpose that we approach today, this very significant day to reextend those 
 ties and reaffirm our internationalist commitment. Today, we pay tribute to 
 all the workers of the world and especially to the workers of Chicago who 
 rose up against the exploitative bosses demanding, not only for the workers 
 of the North, but for all the workers of the world, eight hours of work, 
 eight hours of rest and eight hours of recreation. 137 years have passed 
 since these events and we can say that the world that workers are living in 
 todayis a moment of great crisis and uncertainty.\nEvery day we see that 
 the neoliberal policy that they implemented at the point of a gun against 
 the Chilean people, they are also doing it against the working people of 
 the United States. Like young Chileans, US workers of this generation 
 cannot plan time to be with their families or to study because they are 
 subject to unforeseen work shifts or misnamed "flexible" with very low 
 salaries and a lack of job stability. We see that workers cannot count on 
 health and safety safeguards in their own jobs, something that the COVID 
 pandemic highlighted in Chile and in the United States as well.\nOnly 
 strong, united and principled unions have the capacity to fight the 
 onslaught of the ruling class and provide workers and the communities to 
 which they belong with a more dignified life.\nThis year on September 11, 
 marks the 50th anniversary of the coup d'état in Chile. This coup meant 
 the destruction and mass murder of the Chilean trade union movement and the 
 destruction of all the advances achieved up to that date.\nWe continue to 
 experience the repercussions of these crimes to this day. And most of those 
 responsible for those crimes remain at large.\nAccording to ILO reports, 
 90% of those killed by the military in Chile were workers who had been 
 active union members and\ntheir families who had participated in the 
 general strikes of the second half of the 60's. These mobilizations and 
 strikes became the driving force in the creation of the Popular Unity that 
 brought Salvador Allende to power.\nMany of those killed during the coup 
 were workers who created the Cordones Industriales who, through their 
 strength and organizational capacity, had managed to fight against the 
 economic boycott financed and organized by the World Bank under the direct 
 influence of the United States.\nUnfortunately, among the forces that 
 helped overthrow the Popular Unity government was the leadership of the US 
 labor confederation, the AFLCIO, which through its entity AIFLD, extended 
 the interventionist policy of the US government to provoke and finance 
 truckers' strikes against the Popular Unity government.\nLabor laws in 
 Chile suffered such a setback that, 50 years later, we are still fighting 
 for our work schedule to return to 40 hours instead of 50 or 60 hours per 
 week\nUnder the guise of 'democratic' governments, the Pinochet 
 Constitution is still used, which prohibits the right to strike, collective 
 bargaining, branches, etc. If leaders emerge who are not sold out to the 
 bosses, they die from stray bullets or suspicious suicides.\nWith the 
 Mapuche people it is even worse, their territories in the south, land and 
 waters that were stolen during the dictatorship, remain in the hands of the 
 richest families in Chile, along with multinational corporations and their 
 extractivist policies. The Mapuche communities are being occupied 
 militarily and police and the staging of their murders and criminalization 
 is the normal trend.\nDuring the Social Uprising which started on October 
 18, 2019 in Chile and lasted until the start of the pandemic in March of 
 2020,  Chilean workers experienced massive and systematic violation of the 
 human rights.  Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International reported these 
 systematic violations. During this period of protests of millions of women 
 and men were raped in the police barracks and black sites, more than four 
 hundred protestors eyes were targeted by police and destroyed , many with 
 total loss of vision, many were killed and injured by police brutality. 
 Hundreds of political prisoners were imprisoned for more than two years 
 without due process.  After the international community questioned how 
 Chile could again have even more political prisoners now under a democratic 
 government, then short trials have been used, where prisoners have had to 
 plead guilty and agree to not participate in future protests in order to be 
 released. This is a practice known internationally as LawFare, the use of 
 the judicial system to criminalize protest and quash political expression 
 and participation.\nCurrently, following the logic of its US inspired 
 national security policy, laws have been passed (31) which will ensure the 
 immunity of the police with regard to the violation of the aforementioned 
 human rights.\nWe know that in the U.S., youth and\nespecially youth of 
 color, activists, and workers are confronted with an unrestrained police 
 force with something called "qualified ummunity," which absolves the police 
 of any individual responsibility if they commit acts of violence and 
 violate civil rights.\nThe CODEHS, together with the Central Clasista de 
 Trabajadores and the Unión Clasista de Trabajadores, plus the ANEF 
 (Association of Fiscal Employees of Chile, founded by Clotario Blest in 
 1943) seeks by all possible means the Unity of the Workers of the World, to 
 put into practice, the principle, of the old and young philosophers, that 
 of the Common Good, which allows us to save the planet from the ecological 
 disaster and from the wars of the neo-capitalist economic powers.\nReal 
 Worker Democracy in Chile will only exist when workers and the people own 
 the resources and means of production of Chile.\nWe ask the workers of the 
 United States to demand from the union leaders of the AFL-CIO that they 
 stop their practice of joining the US government in its interventionist 
 policies and not to repeat the shameful practices of trying to falsely pit 
 the interests of the working class of the US against the workers of other 
 countries.\nWe support the LEPAIO Educational Conference of September 10th 
 and the rally at the Headquarters of the AFL CIO in Washington DC on the 50 
 anniversary of the coup, on September 11, 2023.\nWe oppose the continued 
 funding of $75 M of NED to the AFLCIO and any further government funding of 
 the AFLCIO.\nA lot has already been unearthed about the AFLCIO´s role.  We 
 call for opening of the books so American workers can see the real record 
 and history of the intervention by the US, CIA and AFL-CIO. Such flagrant 
 violations of international law demand that Reparations from not only the 
 aficio but also us government and multinationals Neoliberal policies have 
 harmed people all over the world including US workers. Let's bury 
 neoliberalism in its terminal crisis!! For a pluralist democracy of workers 
 and grassroots social movements!! Another ecological, feminist and 
 Indigenous Peoples world is Possible!! For Peace and Friendship among 
 Peoples!!\nEndorsed by Labor Educcation Project On AFL-CIO International 
 Operations & Jointly Issued With 
 CODESH\nLEPAIO\ninfo@aflcio-int.education\nhttps://aflcio-int.education\n 
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SUMMARY:On The 50th Anniversary of Chile Coup- Special Free Screening of 'Nae Pasaran’
LOCATION:To Register\nSaturday August 26, 2023 3PM PST/5PM CST/6PM 
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