(US)Gov't threatens workers for travel to Cuba (for anti FTAA meeting)

[Mika]

Gov't threatens workers for travel to Cuba
http://www.workers.org/2005/world/cuba-travel-0505/

When the Bush administration crows about freedom, it is not freedom for workers. That’s what union members from UAW, SEIU, AFSCME, UNITE and the Teamsters, as well as community leaders and peace activists, found out as they prepared to attend the Fourth Hemispheric Conference Against the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) in Havana, Cuba, to be held April 27 to 30.

Just two weeks before departure, the U.S./Cuba Labor Exchange received a “cease and desist” letter from the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the U.S. Treasury Department. The order specifically prohibited travel to attend the conference against the FTAA.

An emergency response network is forming. Bail/legal fund pledges and contributions are needed. The call for support was distributed to the April 27 Cuba Action Day, a day of mass lobbying in Washing ton, D.C., to start the defense movement before the group returns to the U.S.

Every worker has a stake in this struggle. The U.S. government and the Bush administration are trying to impose the FTAA on all the countries of the Americas. The FTAA demands privatization of natural resources, industries and social services such as energy, water, roads, education and health care.

Ahhhh, can you smell the freedom flowers the US is expecting to be showered with?








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[Vogon_Glory]

1. Yup, Freedom Is On The March Ha! Ha! Ha!

Yup, Buckaroo Bush is certainly proving that Freedom is indeed on the march for folks in this here hemisphere. He shows it by restricting American citizens' right to travel the very same way that the old Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact nation supported such "freedom" by restricting THEIR citizens' freedom of travel.

Isn't Banana Republican freedom wonderful? :sarcasm:

[Mika]

2. So true

The only way for America to spread the freedom that imperialism brings is to restrict the freedom of its own citizens.

:crazy:









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