3/23 Rally in NYC to Demand: Release the Maruti 13! ALSO: Letter to Indian Ambassador

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3/23 Rally in NYC to Demand: Release the Maruti 13! ALSO: Letter to Indian Ambassador to Washington (formatted)


[Email announcement for NY Action & attached Open Letter to Indian Ambassador to Washington]

Free the Maruti Suzuki Auto Workers
Political Prisoners of Class Struggle

13 Maruti Union members given "Life Sentence" for Struggling for a Union
&
Abolition of the Contract Worker System

Please do your best to join this important action to Release the Maruti 13!

Thursday March 23
5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Indian Consulate NYC
3 East 64th Street

Sponsored by: Global Workers Solidarity Network

More Information

'Rule of law' at the service of ruling class.

On March 18, the Gurgaon sessions Court (Haryana, India) sentenced 13 Maruti-Suzuki Auto workers to life imprisonment. The convicted are all members of the union body that began a movement to organize in 2011. The conviction of these workers is a shameful example of how judicial systems around the world are playing to the tunes of corporate interests.

Another 4 workers have been sentenced to 5 years imprisonment, out of which they have already served 4 years in jail. 14 workers are to be released with Rs. 2,500 fine as having undergone their punishment. In the absolute lack of evidence, the court has been forced to admit that the 117 workers acquitted after having spent close three years in jail were illegally detained, and wrongfully confined and it was an unlawful arrest. The criminalization and false imprisonment of these workers will continue to be challenged by workers in the court and on the streets.

Let's send a message to the Indian Consulate RELEASE THEM NOW!

This action will coincide with the Martyrdom day of Indian Revolutionary Bhagat Singh
&
a united Worker Rally in the Manesar, home of Maruti Suzuki.
See the Call from the Provisional Working Committee of the Maruti Suzuki Workers Union

https://marutisuzukiworkersunion.wor...worker-system/


Reports/Articles

http://pudr.org/content/condemn-conv...maruti-workers

http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/...le17529727.ece
http://www.laborcommission.org/files...ace_lo_res.pdf - Merchants of Menace: Repressing workers in India's new industrial belt, Violations of workers' and trade union rights at Maruti Suzuki India Ltd.