The shock of sky-rocketing food prices in 2007 and 2008, which led to food riots around the world and in our region, exposes the failure of the current global food system. More than one billion people are now in the grip of hunger and the food crisis confirms that many […]
Monthly Archives: November 2009
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The leaders of Iran’s independent sugarworkers union are now in prison in the city of Dezful, serving sentences for their trade union activity. Send a message to the Iranian state and judicial authorities, calling on them to immediately and unconditionally release the jailed unionists. For full report and solidarity action, […]
The leaders of Iran’s independent sugarworkers union are now in prison in the city of Dezful, serving sentences for their trade union activity. Send a message to the Iranian state and judicial authorities, calling on them to immediately and unconditionally release the jailed unionists. For full report and solidarity action, […]
The leaders of Iran’s independent sugarworkers union are now in prison in the city of Dezful, serving sentences for their trade union activity. Send a message to the Iranian state and judicial authorities, calling on them to immediately and unconditionally release the jailed unionists. For full report and solidarity action, […]
The saga of the 78 Sri Lankan asylum seekers who, due to Australia’s hard line policy on asylum seekers, spent weeks stuck on the Oceanic Viking off the coast of Indonesia, has seen Australian unions pledge $10,000 to the refugees to help them in their crisis. Paddy Crumlin, national secretary […]
The saga of the 78 Sri Lankan asylum seekers who, due to Australia’s hard line policy on asylum seekers, spent weeks stuck on the Oceanic Viking off the coast of Indonesia, has seen Australian unions pledge $10,000 to the refugees to help them in their crisis. Paddy Crumlin, national secretary […]
The saga of the 78 Sri Lankan asylum seekers who, due to Australia’s hard line policy on asylum seekers, spent weeks stuck on the Oceanic Viking off the coast of Indonesia, has seen Australian unions pledge $10,000 to the refugees to help them in their crisis. Paddy Crumlin, national secretary […]
URGENT ACTION Tata, the transnational Indian conglomerate whose Tetley Group makes the world famous Tetley teas, has taken 6,500 people hostage through hunger. The hostages are nearly 1,000 tea plantation workers and their families on the Nowera Nuddy Tea Estate in West Bengal, India. Permanently living on the edge of […]
URGENT ACTION Tata, the transnational Indian conglomerate whose Tetley Group makes the world famous Tetley teas, has taken 6,500 people hostage through hunger. The hostages are nearly 1,000 tea plantation workers and their families on the Nowera Nuddy Tea Estate in West Bengal, India. Permanently living on the edge of […]
URGENT ACTION Tata, the transnational Indian conglomerate whose Tetley Group makes the world famous Tetley teas, has taken 6,500 people hostage through hunger. The hostages are nearly 1,000 tea plantation workers and their families on the Nowera Nuddy Tea Estate in West Bengal, India. Permanently living on the edge of […]