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Iraqi Labor Leaders Denounce US Occupation & Iraq’s Anti-Labor Laws

category international | worker & community struggles and protests | other press author Monday September 28, 2009 15:40author by pat c Report this post to the editors

Amy Goodman interviews Iraqi trade unionists Rasim Awadi and Falah Alwan. They tell how the invasion has esulted in the destruction of civil society and has unleashed an onslaught of privatisation and attacks on womens and workers rights. Full transcript of interview at link.

AMY GOODMAN: Who is in charge in Iraq?

FALAH ALWAN: I think both the occupation forces and the authorities which were imposed by the occupation itself. As you know, after 2003, the occupation imposed authorities according to dividing the people, dividing the society, according the religion, the language, the tribe, the—and they imposed a so-called “governing council.” Until now, the authority is still as it was before. They created a religious atmosphere of the society. They imposed very oppressive laws against women, against the workers, and against the whole freedoms.

http://www.democracynow.org/2009/9/21/iraqi_labor_leade...ation

Vid at: http://play.rbn.com/?url=demnow/demnow/demand/2009/sept...48:04

http://media.libsyn.com/media/democracynow/dn2009-0921-1.mp3

Amy Goodman Iraqi trade unionists

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