The ITUC strongly protest against the Ministerial Order, Issue 22 244, of the Iraqi Government. This Order clearly violates trade union rights.

According to the information received by the ITUC, the Ministerial Order, issued by the Minister of Electricity, prohibits all trade union activities in the electricity sector and orders the ministry, in coordination with the police, to close all trade union offices and take control of the trade unions assets, properties, documents, furniture and computers. It also gives to the police the authority to arrest any trade unionist who tries to protest against the Ministerial Order, under the terrorism act of 2005.

By JPOST.COM STAFF
05/05/2010 05:03

Obama: Syria poses extraordinary threat to US national security.

US President Barack Obama extended US sanctions on Syria by a year, a communique to Congress detailed on Tuesday.

In the message, Obama expressed concern that Syria continues to support terrorist regimes and tries to obtain weapons of mass destruction. Syria's actions and policies "pose a continuing unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy and economy of the United States," he said.

Next May 2nd, 3rd and 4th , 2010 the Mexico City Zócalo main square will be the venue for the Thematic World SocialForum: “Of the people and by the people: Other solutions to the global crisis are possible”, where extensive moments of dialogs and proposal debates will take place among representatives of social movements, organizations, networks, national and international personalities and experts around the popular alternatives facing the neoliberal economic model and its impacts on all the dimensions of human activity. Among them, there will be representatives of movements like: Indigenous people from Bolivia, Climatic Justice and South Jubilee; as well as intellectuals like Helio Gallardo, Pablo González Casanova and François Houtart.

Nestlé wants you to have a break by having a Kit Kat – but Kit Kats contain palm oil from companies that are trashing Indonesian rainforests, speeding up climate change, threatening the livelihoods of local people and pushing orang-utans towards extinction.