Solidarity e-action
Implement the Goldstone Report
- sign the petition
On 27th December 2008 Israel began its indiscriminate land and
aerial assault on the civilian population of Gaza. This included
the illegal use of white phosphorus bombs in built-up areas. More
than 1,400 Palestinians were killed in three weeks, many of them
children. Since then, Israel's continuing siege of Gaza has left
its trapped population with severely restricted access to food,
medical supplies and clean drinking water. Steel and concrete are
not allowed into Gaza, leaving its people unable to rebuild the
8,000 homes that were destroyed during the Israeli attacks, or to
repair their devastated infrastructure.
Working with the Palestine Solidarity Campaign Unite is calling
on the UK government to exert international pressure to implement
the recommendations of the Goldstone Report, which include
investigating alleged war crimes committed during the three week
assault and immediately ending the inhumane siege of Gaza.
Please sign the petition calling on
the British government to implement the Goldstone Report –the
Palestine Solidarity Campaign will present the petition to Gordon
Brown in January.
For more information please go to http://www.palestinecampaign.org/index2b.asp
64ForSuu.org: global campaign to free Aung
San Suu Kyi
Unite says: Support the
Campaign to Free Aung San Suu Kyi and other political prisoners in
Burma!
A new website calling for the release
of Burma’s democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, and all of Burma’s
political prisoners, has been launched with the backing of major
celebrities and a coalition of trade unions and NGOs. The website
will become the global hub of the international campaign to release
Aung San Suu Kyi.
Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma’s
pro-democracy leader and Nobel Peace laureate, symbolises the
struggle of Burma’s people to be free. She has been detained for
over 13 years by the Burmese regime for campaigning for human
rights and democracy in Burma.
Unite is working with Burma Campaign
UK on a campaign to highlight the plight of political prisoners, in
particular imprisoned trade unionists and labour activists. There
are currently more than 2,100 political prisoners in Burma, of
which Aung San Suu Kyi is undoubtedly the most known.
The site encourages everyone around
the world to write a 64 word message (or 64 character twitter,
image or song) that will be delivered to her on her 64th birthday
on 19th June. Gordon Brown, Brendan Barber and many other
well-known figures have already added their messages.
Unite is calling on members to visit:
www.64ForSuu.org and let the
world know that you demand the:
- Release of all political
prisoners, including Daw Suu and all trade unionists in Burma’s
jails.
- Implementation of a democratic
constitution allowing for free and fair elections;
- Free and independent operation
of trade unions in Burma;
- Abolition of forced
labour;
- Implementation of a global
arms embargo.
Please follow the link to leave your
message for Aung San Suu Kyi and let her and the Burmese people
know that Unite members condemn the Burmese regime:
- For unjustly imprisoning trade
unionists, monks and students;
- For forcing its people,
including children, into backbreaking labour;
- For brutalising ethnic
minorities.
- For denying democratic
rights.
www.64ForSuu.org
Campaign to get Metro Group to act responsibly in Bangladesh
Unite have been working with
colleagues in the USA and Germany to bring pressure to bear on the
management of Metro Group to deal properly with their
responsibilities and work with Bangladeshi unions to raise working
conditions.
However, the policy of Metro Group
at the moment seems to be to 'cut and run', something even Wal-Mart
no longer does when abuses are found in its supply chain. We cannot
allow Metro group to abandon the workers in Bangladesh, it is the
worst thing that could be done. Trade unionists around the
world are putting pressure on the management of Metro Group and we
would ask you to do the same.
Please take just five minutes to do
this, add your name and send it off. You can e-mail the
letter to the Metro Group Head of Corporate Group Communications
and Public Affairs
michael.inacker@metro.de
Every single act of solidarity will
help to ensure that we are one step closer to the Bangladeshi
workers achieving their dream of decent working conditions.
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