On the International Worker's Day: BDS and the Role of Trade Unions, At AIC
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- Published on Monday, 30 April 2012 10:35
AICafé
On the international worker's day
Tuesday, 1st May 2012 8:00 PM
The BDS: role and potential of the Trade Unions
with Omar Barghouti
activist, author and founding committee member of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI)
The global trade union movement has always been a key player and an inspiration in its courage and commitment to human rights by adopting concrete, ground-breaking labor-led sanctions against oppressive regimes in a show of effective solidarity with oppressed peoples around the world. Inspired by the courage of international trade unions that boycotted South Africa during the anti-apartheid struggle, STUC, TUC, COSATU, ICTU, CUT (Brazil) and other major union federations and dozens of individual unions are once again adopting the time-honored tactic of boycott and divestment as the most effective form of solidarity with a people under colonial and racist oppression. Trade unions today are taking the lead in defending the Palestinian people's right to self-determination, freedom, the respect of the right of return of our refugees, and an end to Israeli occupation and apartheid [Palestinian Trade Union on the decision by the Scottish Congress of Trade Unions (STUC) to heed the Palestinian Civil Society Call for BDS and calls on the STUC to sever links with the Histadrut]
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