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8th March 2002, 18:32
Subject: Urgent Action: Zimbabwe - release abducted trade union leader
This week's letter is entirely focussed on one country: Zimbabwe. It
includes an Urgent Action Appeal and news of this week's Labour Website
of the Week.
URGENT ACTION APPEAL:
RELEASE ABDUCTED TRADE UNION LEADER
Trade unionists around the world should be paying special attention the
elections in Zimbabwe this weekend.
This would be the case even if the only reason were that the chief
rival to Robert Mugabe is the former leader of the Zimbabwe Congress of
Trade Unions (ZCTU), Morgan Tsvangirai.
But there is another reason for all of us to focus attention on this
southern African country: the wave of repression with which Mugabe has
reacted to Tsvangirai's challenge.
This repression includes the abduction on 16 February by "war veterans"
of the President of the Zimbabwe Civil Service Employees Association,
Ephraim Tapa, and his wife Faith Mukwakwa. There is a protest letter
from the international trade movement here:
http://www.icftu.org/displaydocument.asp?L...Index=991214837 (http://www.icftu.org/displaydocument.asp?Language=EN&Index=991214837)
We have consulted with colleagues in Zimbabwe and South Africa and
asked for email addresses to which additional protests may be sent by
individual trade unionists and your unions.
The were the addresses we have received to which protests should be
sent:
Government:
[email protected] - the ruling party, Zanu-PF
[email protected] - the parliament
Newspapers:
[email protected]
t[email protected]
[email protected]
Please copy any correspondence to the NGO Network Alliance Project --
[email protected]
Full coverage of events in Zimbabwe can be found here:
http://www.labourstart.org/cgi-bin/dbman/d...ountry=Zimbabwe (http://www.labourstart.org/cgi-bin/dbman/db.cgi?uid=default&db=default&view_records=View+Records&mh=100&sb=4&so=descend&Country=Zimbabwe)
(That should all be on one line; you can reach the same place by
selecting Zimbabwe from the list of countries on the upper right corner of
LabourStart.)
LABOUR WEBSITE OF THE WEEK
This week's award goes, naturally, the website of the ZCTU -- The
Worker, located here:
http://www.africaonline.co.zw/theworker/index.html
The full review of the is located on the front page of LabourStart --
http://www.labourtstart.org
We wish our friends in Zimbabwe the best of luck in this weekend's vote
and hope for the speedy release of Ephraim Tapa and Faith Mukwakwa from
the hands of Mugabe's "war veterans".
Eric Lee---------------------------------------
LabourStart: http://www.labourstart.org
---------------------------------------
This week's letter is entirely focussed on one country: Zimbabwe. It
includes an Urgent Action Appeal and news of this week's Labour Website
of the Week.
URGENT ACTION APPEAL:
RELEASE ABDUCTED TRADE UNION LEADER
Trade unionists around the world should be paying special attention the
elections in Zimbabwe this weekend.
This would be the case even if the only reason were that the chief
rival to Robert Mugabe is the former leader of the Zimbabwe Congress of
Trade Unions (ZCTU), Morgan Tsvangirai.
But there is another reason for all of us to focus attention on this
southern African country: the wave of repression with which Mugabe has
reacted to Tsvangirai's challenge.
This repression includes the abduction on 16 February by "war veterans"
of the President of the Zimbabwe Civil Service Employees Association,
Ephraim Tapa, and his wife Faith Mukwakwa. There is a protest letter
from the international trade movement here:
http://www.icftu.org/displaydocument.asp?L...Index=991214837 (http://www.icftu.org/displaydocument.asp?Language=EN&Index=991214837)
We have consulted with colleagues in Zimbabwe and South Africa and
asked for email addresses to which additional protests may be sent by
individual trade unionists and your unions.
The were the addresses we have received to which protests should be
sent:
Government:
[email protected] - the ruling party, Zanu-PF
[email protected] - the parliament
Newspapers:
[email protected]
t[email protected]
[email protected]
Please copy any correspondence to the NGO Network Alliance Project --
[email protected]
Full coverage of events in Zimbabwe can be found here:
http://www.labourstart.org/cgi-bin/dbman/d...ountry=Zimbabwe (http://www.labourstart.org/cgi-bin/dbman/db.cgi?uid=default&db=default&view_records=View+Records&mh=100&sb=4&so=descend&Country=Zimbabwe)
(That should all be on one line; you can reach the same place by
selecting Zimbabwe from the list of countries on the upper right corner of
LabourStart.)
LABOUR WEBSITE OF THE WEEK
This week's award goes, naturally, the website of the ZCTU -- The
Worker, located here:
http://www.africaonline.co.zw/theworker/index.html
The full review of the is located on the front page of LabourStart --
http://www.labourtstart.org
We wish our friends in Zimbabwe the best of luck in this weekend's vote
and hope for the speedy release of Ephraim Tapa and Faith Mukwakwa from
the hands of Mugabe's "war veterans".
Eric Lee---------------------------------------
LabourStart: http://www.labourstart.org
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