Building Bridges:

Your Community & Labor Report – National Edition

Produced & Hosted by Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash

Presents

IRAQI LABOR UNDER SIEGE with

ISSAM SHUKRI, Iraqi labor organizer and a founder of the Union of Unemployed in Iraq.

The Union of Unemployed in Iraq, founded in May 2003, emerged as the first significant and mass initiative by Iraqi workers to confront the wide scale unemployment caused by the US war. Within

a few months, the UUI signed up over 150,000 members. "Jobs or Unemployment Benefit" became the union's battle cry. In addition, it demanded a significant role in job distribution. UUI became a world renowned radical working class organization for its 45-day sit-in protest across from CPA headquarters in Baghdad despite continuous attacks and repression by the American forces.

End the Occupation of Iraq Now with Tariq Ali



Even though the U.S. invaded Iraq with no justification, there are many that still believe that there is no alternative to our continued occupation of that country. Tariq Ali, author of Bush in Babylon,is not one of those people and he tells us why.

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