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The Key To Bringing Down Mideast Despots- Can Be Found The Way Soviets Were Stopped!
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| Psychomike |
There is one area we haven't considered in our response to Jihad that this article mentions.
Labor unions.
Iran's despotic mullahs are worried more about Teamsters union President James Hoffa than Iran's Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi. Why? They are frightened by the prospect that Hoffa's escalating voice may give birth to an Iranian version of Solidarity's Lech Walesa, whose courageous and charismatic leadership transformed Poland's workers into an invincible political force.
A gem of an alliance has been cut between Hoffa and Iran's labor movement. In December 2005, the Teamsters president demanded, in a letter to Iran's notoriously belligerent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the release of 14 labor union workers unjustly detained and beaten. In July 2007, after the jailing and brutalization of Mansour Ossanlou, a Bus Transport Workers Union leader, Hoffa similarly insisted on his freedom and condemned the Iranian government's flagrant disdain for freedom of association and expression.
Iran's theocrats fear Hoffa because they worry about the close nexus between free labor unions and political freedom. Last year, two prominent Iranian labor leaders, Mahmoud Salehi and Jalal Hosseini, were tried and convicted of internal subversion in secret proceedings conducted by the Saqqez Revolutionary Court.
The mullahs accurately perceived labor organizing as the antechamber to revolt against despotism. That explains why labor rights are joined with democracy and human rights in the annual country reports issued by the State Department. Similarly, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights stipulates: "Everyone has the right to form and to join labor unions for the protection of his own interests." http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/artic...9/INR1REQT1.DTL |
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| Reed Rothchild |
| Um, Unions are bad um-kay? Ask G.W Bush or Walmart. |
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| NC-Stern-Mark |
| Unfortunately, we've provided a model for the despots on how to bust unions. |
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| Bronks Breasts |
| The Soviet union was decimated because Reagan wasted so much money on the military that the USSR could not keep up. Reagan used a credit card for everything most of his dark eight years. You younger guys are lucky that you were to young to remember Reagan but he was an awful president. His cabinet was far worse than the one that the Bush Crime Family invited to infest America like the greedy maggots that they are. The day that Reagan died should be declared a national holiday. |
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| mingmen |
| psychomike, do you support unions? |
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| SaintJimmy |
| This idiot's threads are growing tiresome. |
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| Psychomike |
I support the right for anyone to join a union willingly Mingmen.
But there is no question the Polish dockworkers played a major role in bringing down the USSR. Organized labor could cause cracks in their system, without mentioning religion.
Ok St Jimmy, I'll bite. Throwing this idea out the window, what do you think has a chance of changing Iran? |
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| mingmen |
Quote: Originally posted by Psychomike
I support the right for anyone to join a union willingly Mingmen.
But there is no question the Polish dockworkers played a major role in bringing down the USSR. Organized labor could cause cracks in their system, without mentioning religion.
Ok St Jimmy, I'll bite. Throwing this idea out the window, what do you think has a chance of changing Iran? |
In the US. Do you support organized labor? Don't play dumb...oh wait.... |
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