The International Action Center invites you to Tijuana, Mexico and encourages online donations for: The Special Summer
The International Action Center invites you to Tijuana, Mexico and
encourages online donations for:
The Special Summer
U.S./Cuba/Mexico/Latin America Labor Conference Aug 17 -
19
'The World Economic Crisis: fighting for education and
public workers'
3-day Seminar with instructors from Cuba's CTC Lazaro Pena
workers' school Aug. 15 - 17
Aug 17 Friday - Solidarity Evening with the Cuban 5
with
ROSA AURORA FREIJANES - spouse of
Cuban 5 hero FERNANDO GONZALEZ LLORT
Register Now! Unions, reserve your block of rooms!
Online registration/payment at LaborExchange.blogspot.com
Full conference registration: $90 (Aug. 17 - 19) [Early registration
before July 15 - $80]
includes special solidarity event for the Cuban 5 on Aug. 17
Classes: $60 additional
online registration and DONATIONS at: LaborExchange.blogspot.com
or by mail to: Labor Exchange, POB 39188, Redford, MI
48239
FOR YOUNG WORKERS and STUDENTS:
Special sliding scale conference rates $50 - $25
(Low cost group housing for students and young workers - $15 per night - for
info or reserve space contact: LaborExchange@gmail.com)
HOUSING at Hotel Palacio Azteca in Tijuana, Mexico; just minutes
from San Diego
Special INCLUSIVE rate housing at the conference venue
Request CUBA LABOR CONFERENCE per night rate - Single
$81/Double $116
Hotel Palacio Azteca, Tijuana ◊ Blvd Cuauhtemoc Sur #213 Colonia
Davila 22400
Toll Free from USA 1 888 901 3720 • Toll Free From Mexico 01
8000266660
Request CUBA LABOR CONFERENCE per night rate - Single
$81/Double $116
Hotel Palacio Azteca, Tijuana ◊ Blvd Cuauhtemoc Sur #213 Colonia
Davila 22400
Toll Free from USA 1 888 901 3720 • Toll Free From Mexico 01
8000266660
Single/Sencilla Room $81 U.S.Dollars *
Double/Doble Room $116 U.S. Dollars*
*(Room rates include two breakfasts and one Saturday dinner per person)
Saturday: Coffee and sweets all day
*(Este precio incluye dos desayunos y una cena por persona)
Sabado: Cafe y bocadillos todo el dia
_______________________________________________________
Proposed program for school, Conference, Cuban 5
Solidarity
and registration information follows:
2012 U.S./Cuba/Mexico/Latin America Labor Conference
August 17, 18, 19 Hotel Palacio Azteca - Tijuana, Mexico
The World Economic Crisis: Fighting for Education and public workers
- Discuss with representatives of the Cuban Workers Central Union and other
unions from countries of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our
Americas (ALBA). Find out how countries recovering from colonial devastation
conquer illiteracy and expand education; how continental integration advances
life for workers and poor; roots of migration/immigration.
- Learn about Cuba’s renown Latin America School of Medicine and the
U.S. students studying to be doctors there on full scholarship.
- What are students, teachers and public workers facing in other Latin
American and Caribbean countries like Puerto Rico, Mexico, Chile?
- Discuss the student debt crisis, the school-to-prison pipeline, freedom
schools, the Librotraficante struggle and your issues.
- Who are the Cuban 5, unjustly held in U.S. prisons for 14 years? Why unions
around the world are saying, “Pres. Obama, free them now!”
International participants:
Cuba: CTC Departamento Internacional; Sindicato
Nacional de los trabajadores de la Educacion, ciencia y Deporte; Profesor de la
Escuela de cuadros Lazaro Pena de la CTC; Familiar de los 5 heroes Cubanos
Mexico: Profesor Jorge Cazares Torres Secretario
General Sindicato Nacional Trabajadores de la Educacion Seccion XVIII S.N.T.E.;
Oliverio Esquivel Federacion Sindical Mundial, Mexico; Humberto Montes de Oca -
Departamento Internacional- Sindicato Mexicano de Electricistas SME
Brazil: Joao Batista departamento internacional de
la Central de trabajadores de Brazil CTB
Venezuela: Marco Tulio Diaz de la Central
Bolivariana Socialista de Trabajadores de venezuela CBST; Jacobo Torres de
leon- departamento Internacional de la Central Bolivariana Socialista de
Trabajadores de venezuela CBST
Ecuador: Baron Hidrovo S. presidente F.P.T.M. del
Ecuador
La Escuela Lazaro Pena Seminars program from 8:30 am - 4:30
pm:
DAY 1: Wednesday August 15 - Historical Context of the
International Labor MovementClass Struggle, what it is and why it's
important in the Labor movement.What role does a labor organization (union) and
its leadership play in class struggle.Participation of workers in their
unionWorkers UnityLatin American Integration: The different Processes: ALBA,
UNASUR, CELAC DAY 2: Thursday August 16 - Cuba's Economic
Model and its EvolutionMexico's Economic Crisis and Organized CrimeUnites
States Economic Crisis, Unemployment, Presidential Elections
Day 3: Friday August 17 - Venezuela Bolivarian Revolution,
Presidential ElectionsClosing and Presentation of Certificates
Conference Agenda (not finalized):
Day 1: Friday August 17 Begin Conference with Special event
for the Freedom of the Cuban Five -dinner at 6 pm followed by program -Special
Cuban Five family representative - Rosa Aurora Freijanes, spouse of Fernando
Gonzalez!
Day 2: Saturday August 18- Open with a plenary presentation
that will provide a context of the Worker's Struggle internationally and
within the theme of Capitalism's attack on Public Education and Public
Sector workers.
- Break out into workshops/discussion groups; concept is to compare and
contrast Capitalist response to Public Education and Public Sector workers and
the Response from ALBA/Progressive Governments this issue.
- Report back from workshops so participants can have the evening to reflect
and proposals
- Evening, dinner with possible continued discussion or final plenary, NOT
PROGRAMMED yet
Day 3: Sunday August 19
- Review Proposals/Resolutions for united action
- Close Conference
For YOUNG WORKERS and STUDENTS: Special sliding scale conference rates
$50 - $25
Low cost group housing for students and young workers - $15 per night
for info or reserve space contact: Laborexchange@gmail.com
Conference Registration/ Datos para su inscripción a la
Conferencia:
Name/Nombre:_____________________________________________________________
Address/Direccion:
_________________________________________________________
Phone/Telefono:__________________
Fax:______________________________________
Email/Correo Electronico:
____________________________________________________
E-mail Registration information to: Laborexchange@aol.com or info@uniondelbarrio.org
Make checks payable to: Labor Exchange * P.O. Box 39188 * Redford, MI
48239
