[DEBATE] : Launch of Jafa: A Bulletin in Solidarity with Palestinian Workers and Unions

Wed Dec 10 18:40:44 GMT 2008

Labour for Palestine is proud to launch:

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'Jafa - A Bulletin in Solidarity with Palestinian Workers and Unions'
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** available for download at www.caiaweb.org/labourcommittee **

As an initiative coming out of the first Labour for Palestine
conference, held in Toronto May-June 2008, we are pleased to bring you
the first issue of 'Jafa: A Bulletin in Solidarity with Palestinian
Workers and Unions'.

Jafa will be published quarterly and aims to bring together news and
analysis on the situation of Palestinian workers and unions wherever
they are - in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, citizens of Israel,
refugee camps and across the diaspora.

We stand in solidarity with the 2005 call from Palestine for a
campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israeli
Apartheid. This call was signed by all major Palestinian trade union
federations, including the Palestinian General Federation of Trade
Unions.

Jafa takes its name from the Arabic acronym for the Palestinian Arab
Workers Society (Jame'yat Alomal Al Falestiniya Alarabiya), the first
Palestinian labour federation founded in Haifa in on March 21, 1925.
As part of our mandate, we hope to help in the rediscovery of the
history of Palestinian trade unionism and workers struggles in the
region.

The first issue includes articles on the deaths and harassment of
Palestinian workers in the West Bank, Palestinian date-pickers in the
Jordan Valley, the Palestinian Reform and Development Plan, and
updates on solidarity initiatives globally.

We encourage you to download Jafa at www.caiaweb.org and take copies
to labour events, union offices and your workplace. Bulk hard copies
can be ordered for a small cost from labour at caiaweb.org

We also encourage submissions, letters from rank-and-file workers and
unionists across the globe.

In solidarity
Labour for Palestine, Toronto
labour at caiaweb.org

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