Monthly Archives: December 2002

LIFE UNDER OCCUPATION (PGFTU Tour)

Al-Awda, Jews Against the Occupation, Palestine Activist Forum-New York, New York Solidarity Movement for a Free Palestine, The Global Sweatshop Coalition, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Taxi Worker’s Alliance and Direct Action Palestine present…

LIFE UNDER OCCUPATION

with speakers, video and more…

For the first time in the US, representatives from the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions (PGFTU).  The PGFTU is a democratic, popular and independent organization, which struggles for the protection of workers
rights in Palestine, and has a membership of 470,000, representing 75% of the workforce.  Don’t miss this historic event!

Featuring:

**Hekmat Al-Sarraj, from the Women’s Affairs Department of the Palestine General Federation of Trade Unions in Gaza.  Ms. Sarraj works to protect the rights of women workers in the Occupied Gaza Strip.

**Mohammed Saleh, From the Executive Board of the Palestine General Federation of Trade Unions in Ramallah.

**First-Hand reports from International  activists and organizers just returned from the OLIVE HARVEST in Palestine.

**NEW PALESTINE VIDEO by artist Jackie Salloum

Saturday, December 14, 2002 at 7pm
Pratt Institute
Brooklyn Campus
Engineering Building, Room 371
Dekalb Ave. (Hall Street/Classon Ave.), Brooklyn
(C/G to Clinton/Washington; for further directions, see www.pratt.edu.)