Maine Owl

"February 23 marks the one-year anniversary of the Cabinet’s passage of the Iraq Oil Law. The Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions has called for an International Day of Action on Feb 22-23. People around the world will hold actions on these days in solidarity with the people of Iraq to say NO to the oil law and NO to foreign contracts under the occupation." ~ U.S. Labor Against the War

We will be joining the worldwide protests against expropriation of Iraq's oil and associated attack on workers' livelihoods by multinational oil companies with a program at the Worker Center in Brewer, Maine.

Iraq Oil Report has a fantastic resource up today on the protests with dozens of links, and I have included a few links below referencing my own past postings. Here is the program for tomorrow:

Workers and the War in Iraq
Saturday February 23, 2008 at the Worker Center
20 Ivers Street, Brewer; 10am-Noon

I. Introductions 5 minutes
Participants Share ideas and questions about connections between US workers and Iraq workers 10 minutes

II. Video from Democracy Now!, 30 minutes
"Founder of Iraq Oil Workers Union Rejects U.S.-Backed Oil Law as 'Robbery'":
This video features interviews with Faleh Abood Umara, general secretary of the Federation of Oil Unions, and Hashmeya Muhsin Hussein, president of the Electrical Utility Workers Union in Iraq.

III. Discussion of issues raised in video and US Labor Against the War 60 minutes

IV. Sharing ideas about ways to continue to raise US worker concerns 15 minutes

Helpful information:

U.S. Labor Against the War
Democracy Now! (segment to be shown)

The writer David Bacon, found at the same website as "The Price of Occupation", is particularly good

There is much background information and many references on the Iraq Oil Law at my own posts HERE and HERE.