International Events on AFL-CIO Operations
The LEPAIO is for full transparency of the international role of the AFL-CIO and calls for the opening of the books of their role including their military and political interventions in collaboration with the CIA and US government agencies including AID and National Endowment for Democracy
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The National Endowment for Democracy was created by an act of Congress in 1983. Its primary source of funding is U.S. taxes. Nevertheless, the NED is officially designated as a private institution. As such, it is not subject to meaningful public oversight or review. Allen Weinstein, the NED’s theoretical planner, noted in a 1991 Washington Post interview, “A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA.” * Funded and sponsored Venezuelan NGOs that participated in the 2002 attempted Coup d’état against Venezuela’s democratically elected President Hugo Chavez; * In 2004, funded the defeated ...
To: The United States Congress WHEREAS, The US Congress is about to reconsider the funding needs of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and its core institutes – The International Republican Institute (Republican Party), the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (Democratic Party), the American Center for International Labor Solidarity (AFL-CIO), and the Centers for International Private Enterprise (US Chamber of Commerce) – in particular the IRI and NDI, which will use up their allotments by April 30th; WHEREAS, Few in the United States are aware of the existence of the NED, established by U.S. Congress and President Reagan in ...
NOTE: This page was used for an earlier campaign - PLEASE DON'T USE IT AS IT IS! PLEASE CONTACT LEPAIO BEFORE USE!US Congress is about to reconsider additional funding for the NED, a supposedly-independent organization, but in reality an arm of the State Department and US foreign policy with a long history of overthrowing elected governments in the Global South and elsewhere. It does this by using the millions of tax dollars now under consideration to manipulate elections and fund coup d’états. The lies used to justify the war in Iraq have made many more people wiser and less ready ...
1. Whereas, working people and members of the AFL-CIO have the right to transparency about the operations of their unions and, 2. Whereas, the AFL-CIO has collaborated with the CIA, Agency For International development AID and the National Endowment for Democracy NED and, 3. Whereas, workers around the world and their unions have faced attacks and subversion by this collaboration of the AFL-CIO leadership and, 4. Whereas, a democratic independent trade union movement must not be funded by governments and, 5. Whereas, we need real worker to worker direct solidarity and education of our mutual issues and needs and, ...
Join LEPAIO Commemoration of 1973 Chilean Coup! On September 11, 1973, the US government organized a coup against the then sitting president, Salvadore Allende. Allende, while being a mixed bag politically, had the audacity to nationalize the coppers mines, a great source of wealth for US capitalism. He had to go. Thousands of people were murdered. LEPAIO Educational Meeting on 50th Anniversary of Chile Coup & AFL-CIO Involvement Educational: Sunday September 10, 2023 1:30 PM EST/11:30 AM, CST/10:30 AM PST Rally: Monday, 9/11 Rally at AFL-CIO HQ 12:00 Noon 16th & "H" St. DC https://aflcio-int.educationPress Release-Washington DC Events Commemorating 50th ...
On the 49th anniversary of the 1973 Chilean coup on September 11, 2022, LEPAIO presented an educatoional panel in Washington, DC. Speakers included:Ernesto Rojas Urbina, Director of the Committee for Human and Union Rights CODESH ChileLisa Milos, Communications Workrs of America, UPTE member and San Francisco Labor Council delegateCarol Lang, American Federation of Teachers, Professional Staff Council, Professor, City University of New York Recorded By WorkWeekhttps://soundcloud.com/workweek-radio ...
Since its formation, there has been a close relationship between the Israeli Zionist labor organization, the Histadrut and the US labor movement, with US unions providing much funding and political support. Additionally, there has been funding from the CIA and NED as well as other government agencies for these international projects, and that continues today with the AFL-CIO's "Solidarity Center." The AFL-CIO and Israel's Histadrut were also involved in actively supporting the South African apartheid regime and the CIA through the AFL-CIO, which gave millions of dollars to Chief Gatscha Buthelezi, a reactionary tribal leader who was allied with the ...
January 8, 1990 the AFL-CIO and the CIA organized and financed an assault on the Ford Mexico City assembly plant workers. The object was to remove a militant union leadership that was challenging Ford. Many workers were injured and one killed by this assault ...
Newly Revealed Documents Show How the AFL-CIO Aided US Interference in Venezuela https://jacobin.com/2020/08/venezuela-hugo-chavez-afl-cio-united-states BY TIM GILL The AFL-CIO’s Solidarity Center has a long history of working hand in glove with the US government in undermining democracy and left labor movements throughout the world. The center emphasizes it has shifted away from these Cold War tactics in recent years. But newly obtained documents show that the Solidarity Center has worked closely with the US to undermine the Venezuelan government in the recent past. President Hugo Chávez addresses his supporters during a massive rally called as a show of strength to counter ...
Open Letter To Labor Notes About Relationship To US NED Funded AFL-CIO "Solidarity Center" In Mexico & US 6/16/22 Dear Al Bradbury, Editor, Labor Notes al@labornotes.org I’m sending you links to a zoom presentation I made last Saturday that coincided with the AFL-CIO Convention in Pa. In it, I address my concerns over the role of the U.S.-financed AFL-CIO Solidarity Center in Mexico, and the apparent ties between the SC and Labor Notes. The Solidarity Center just last year received $75 million from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) - a US government-funded, private non-profit. The zoom/live event was sponsored ...