The group called on Iraq to take immediate steps to protect detainees from torture, and ensure they had access to proper defense and received a prompt hearing.
"Al-Baghdadia television demands that the Iraqi authorities immediately release their stringer Muntadhar al-Zaidi, in line with the democracy and freedom of expression that the American authorities promised the Iraqi people," it said in a statement.
Thousands of Iraqis will take to the streets December 19th to demand the release of a reporter who threw his shoes at President George Bush.
4. PROTEST CENSORSHIP
You BETTER not watch any of my videos on December 19th!
Sign the online petition- http://www.petitiononline.com/Demoted/petition.html
Watch the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdP_KD80plo
Youtube/Google: Since Google bought Youtube political videos have been removed by Youtube claiming that 1. They were 'removed by the user' or 2. they contained profanity, both of which are untrue. Youtube has also removed the 'Bulletin' function and has made it impossible to 'share' videos among users.
We urge everyone on YouTube to participate in a blackout on December 19th 2008. We sincerely hope that everyone joins us on that day for this civil protest. Please do not forget that all of your clicks and video posts made this site what it is today. Without your clicks, watches, and videos there would be no YouTube. Thank You.
5. SUPPORT WORKER'S RIGHTS
On the afternoon of November 27, some 400 workers at the Alpina milk plant in the Venezuelan state of Aragua occupied their plant demanding full payment of money owed them by the Colombian-owned company. At first, the bosses tried to get the workers to abandon their leaders in the UNT (National Workers Union). When that failed, state police swarmed onto the grounds, brutally beating the workers and seriously injuring four. But the union alerted workers in the industrial area, and according to a report by UNT state leader Luis Hernández, "within minutes, the plant was surrounded by workers of the Unión Nacional de Trabajadores. Thanks to this act of solidarity, it was possible to retake the plant, and the workers reoccupied it."
Yet a few hours later, as they were heading home, Hernández and two other UNT leaders who had led the Alpina workers' struggle that day, Richard Gallardo and Carlos Requena, were gunned down at a shopping center in the nearby town of Cagua by an assassin on a motorbike. The three were also cadres of the Unidad Socialista de Izquierda (USI, Left Socialist Unity), which has opposed the populist government of Hugo Chávez and its attempts to impose state domination of labor. Whatever sinister force ordered the assassination, the blow was aimed at one of the most combative sectors of the Venezuelan workers movement. Despite Chávez' socialist rhetoric, this is the reality of the Bolivarian "revolution" in Venezuela today: leftist unionists are murdered while the forces of state repression back up the bosses.
December 19th we call upon all unions to cease work and shut them down. Send a clear message to our leaders 'enough is enough'.
We will no longer tolerate censorship, police brutality, corrupt governments, corrupt politicians, corrupt political parties, over-crowded schools, over-priced hospital bills, endless bailouts for the wealthy, constant war for profit, etc!
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