An art piece incorporating AET’s Remember These Children booklet waves in the breeze at San Francisco’s SomArts Cultural Center (Staff photo S. Powell).

SAN FRANCISCO’S SomArts Cultural Center hosted “Mexico/Palestine: Unspoken Borders” on Aug. 11 as part of a month-long exhibit on Latin America entitled “Prophecy/Healing: Artists and Communities Confront Global Crisis.”

Based on the poem “Prophecy,” painted on the walls and later read by author William Torphy, who curated the exhibit, the show comprised paintings and sculptures addressing the effects of globalization on traditional communities. An additional piece showcasing the American Educational Trust’s Remember These Children project was hung especially for the Mexico/Palestine: Unspoken Borders event.

An art piece incorporating AET’s Remember These Children booklet waves in the breeze at San Francisco’s SomArts Cultural Center (Staff photo S. Powell).

SAN FRANCISCO’S SomArts Cultural Center hosted “Mexico/Palestine: Unspoken Borders” on Aug. 11 as part of a month-long exhibit on Latin America entitled “Prophecy/Healing: Artists and Communities Confront Global Crisis.”

Based on the poem “Prophecy,” painted on the walls and later read by author William Torphy, who curated the exhibit, the show comprised paintings and sculptures addressing the effects of globalization on traditional communities. An additional piece showcasing the American Educational Trust’s Remember These Children project was hung especially for the Mexico/Palestine: Unspoken Borders event.

Oil workers of Iraq .
Statement by Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions to 2008 Chevron and ExxonMobil Shareholder Meetings

by by Hassan Juma'a Awad, President, Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions c/o USLAW
June 6th, 2008
On May 28, 2008, Chevron and ExxonMobil Corporations will each conduct their annual shareholder meetings. Chevron will convene its meeting at its world headquarters in San Ramon, CA. ExxonMobil will conduct its meeting in Dallas, Texas. Antiwar, environmental and other social justice organizations will conduct protests at each event.
The following statement from the Federation of Oil Unions in Iraq to the shareholders of each corporation will be presented at press conferences conducted in conjunction with these protests. The statement was transmitted by Hassan Juma'a Awad, President of the Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions, to U.S. Labor Against the War for presentation at these events.

Arab American Union Members Council endorses Obama for President .

The Arab Union Members Council is urging their members and working families in the community to join the waves of change everywhere in America that is bringing hope to all working and immigrant families and their children by casting the vote for the force of the grassroots’ change for a better America and a better world. In spite of Senator Obama’s shortcoming of presenting a just and peaceful solution for Palestinians, his ideas and plans for change on health care , jobs, housings, and education brings a voice of justice and firmness to the forefront of this campaign

AAUMC calls upon labor unions in the US to support labor organizers imprisoned by the Egyptian Government, the second largest recipient of US foreign aid [$2 billion].

Members of the independent Textile Workers League: Kamal el-Fayoumi, Tarek Amin and blogger Kareem el-Beheiry were detained on the 6th of April during a two-day uprising by the urban poor and textile workers in the Nile Delta town of Mahalla, protesting the price increases of basic commodities. A strike was scheduled on that day to take place at Ghazl el-Mahalla, the largest textile mill in the Middle East and home to 27,000 workers, but was aborted by police troops occupying the factory. Peaceful demonstrations erupted in the town after the failure of the strike, and soon turned bloody with police opening fire on the protestors, killing at least three.

http://arabist.net/arabawy/2008/04/06/police-abort-mahalla-strike/