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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AFL-CIO leadership cited a procedural rule to tell the San Francisco Labor Council it couldn’t even debate a resolution on BDS. Isaac Scher October 21 2021, 9:23 a.m. THE NATIONAL LEADERSHIP of the largest labor federation in the country is trying to stop one of its affiliates from debating and voting on a resolution that condemns Israeli violence against Palestinians, calls for an end to U.S. aid to Israel, and endorses the Palestinian-led boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement known as BDS. In late September, an AFL-CIO official sent a memo to the San Francisco Labor Council with the subject line “Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions ...
By Mike Sager January 5, 1981 In 1966, Michael Hammer, the American agricultural adviser from Potomac gunned down in San Salvador Saturday, brought together 500 Salvadoran campesinos -- the peasant plantation laborers and sharecroppers of that strife-torn Central American nation -- and told them of his visions for agrarian land reform and his promise to help. The Paris-born son of German parents personally organized and nurtured the agrarian union development wing of the AFL-CIO's American Institute for Free Labor Development here. With the help of $1.5 million in AID funds, Hammer was overseeing efforts to help El Salvador's military-civilian government ...
2022, 02-04: El Golpe: The AFL-CIO CIA Attack and Murder Against Mexico City Ford Workers & El Golpe
Rob McKenzie, a retired Minneapolis UAW Ford Union worker and leader has written a new book called El Golpe: US Labor, the CIA, and the Coup at Ford in Mexico. It is about the collaboration between the CIA and AFL-CIO leadership in organizing a murderous attack on the Mexican City Ford plant. McKenzie made a presentation about this thug attack and how it was organized in a presentation to the AFT PSC at CUNY on February 4, 2022 ...
On the 20th Anniversary of the US AFL-CIO Supported Venezuela Coup, Dr. Margaret Flowers who is with Popular Resistance.org spoke out at the Labor Education Project On AFL-CIO International Operations that was held on April 9, 2022, in Washington DC. The conference called for an end to the $75 million dollars from the US government-funded National Endowment For Democracy NED for the AFL-CIO Solidarity Center and for opening the books of the AFL-CIO relationship with US government agencies ...
On the 20th anniversary of the attempted US coup supported by the AFL-CIO, a conference was held by the Labor Education Project On AFL-CIO International Operations in Washington DC to expose the role of the AFL-CIO international operations and call for the cancellation of the $75 million a year the US-funded National Endowment For Democracy NED gives to the AFL-CIO Solidarity Center. One of the speakers was William Camacaro with the Bolivarian Circle of New York “Alberto Lovera” ...
On the 20th anniversary of the US attempted coup in Venezuela which was supported by the AFL-CIO, James Patrick Jordan who is the Alliance For Global Justice National Co-Coordinator made a report on their role. The report was made at the founding conference of the Labor Education Project On AFL-CIO International Operations. The conference was held on April 9, 2022, in Washington DC ...
The AFL-CIO & CIA In South Africa & Jabu Ndlovu With SA Trade Union Organizer David Hemson The role of the AFL-CIO in South Africa was the focus of the presentation by South African trade unionist, researcher, and educator David Hemson. He spoke at the founding conference of the Labor Education Project On AFL-CIO International Operations that was held on April 9, 2022, in Washington DC. He discussed the role of the AFL-CIO which collaborated with the CIA to fund Zulu Chief Buthelezi setting up a union and gang of gangsters to attack and murder union organizers and their families ...
US Labor Imperialism & The AFL-CIO With US Labor Sociologist Kim Scipes Kim Scipes, a professor at Purdue University Northwest and expert on the AFL-CIO international operations made a report the history of US labor's international role and labor imperialism. He spoke on the 20th anniversary of the US coup in Venezuela which was supported by the AFL-CIO through the National Endowment For Democracy NED. NED is funding the AFL-CIO with $75 million a year for it's international operations. Scipes is author of AFL-CIO's Secret War Against Developing Country Workers: Solidarity or Sabotage?. This presentation took place at the founding ...
The Israeli Histadrut, Zionism, The AFL-CIO & Imperialism With Professor Carol Lang The role of the Israeli trade union federation Histadrut, imperialism and the AFL-CIO was the focus of a presentation by NYC CUNY professor Carol Lang. She is also a member of the AFT-PSC. The talk was given at the founding conference of the Labor Education Project On AFL-CIO International Operations (LEPAIO), which was held in Washington, DC a on April 9, 2022 ...