AUT: fwd: Strikers massacred in the Phillipines - help needed

[andrew robinson <ldxar1@xxxxxxxxx>]

>From Eric Lee, Labourstart

STRIKERS MASSACRED IN THE PHILIPPINES - YOUR HELP
NEEDED NOW

Three days ago, on 16 November, fourteen people were
killed by army and
police in the Philippines.  Those people were
strikers, trade unionists
like yourselves.  They worked on sugar farms in sugar
mills, and had
been on strike for ten days.  Two of those killed were
children, aged
two and five, who died from suffocation as a result of
the tear gas
used.  Some 35 people suffered gunshot wounds, 133
were arrested,
hundreds more were wounded.

The trade union movement in the Philippines has called
for a massive
international protest condemning the murders,
demanding a full
investigation of what happened.  They are demanding
that hundreds of
workers illegally dismissed be rehired, and that
criminal charges
against the strikers be dropped.  Please send on your
message of protest
by going here:

http://www.labourstart.org/cgi-bin/solidarityforever/show_campaign.cgi?c=39

Make sure to pass this message on to everyone you
know.  Let's flood the
Filipino government with thousands of messages in the
next few hours and
days.


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