30419: Laborsoul (announce) Labor speaking tour (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

 Laborsoul@aol.com

 The Confederation of Haitian Workers (CTH) has launched a website 
<http://www.haitilabor.org> and is embarking on a North American Speaking Tour. 
The Canada-Haiti Labour and Women's Solidarity Tour will travel first to eleven 
cities across Canada in late May/early June 2007. The tour will feature three 
trade union and women's rights leaders from Haiti. They are Ginette Apollon and 
Paul Chéry of the Conféderation des travailleurs haitiens (CTH), and women's 
rights leader and activist Euvonie Georges-Auguste.

 The list of sponsors of the tour includes: * Canadian Union of Postal Workers 
(CUPW) * National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE) * Public 
Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) * Ottawa and District Labour Council * 
Halifax/Dartmouth District Labour Council * Vancouver and District Labour 
Council * Hospital Employees Union (division of CUPE) * CHORHA (Haitian 
community organization in Hull/Ottawa) * Canada Haiti Action Network 
(chaptersin 13 cities) * LACHASauSHA (Haitian community organization in 
Hull/Ottawa) * Nowar-Paix (Network to Oppose War and Racism--Ottawa) * 
Rassemblement Outaouais contre la guerre (ROCG) * Canadian Union of Public 
Employees,Local 4600 (Ottawa) * Nova Scotia Public Interest Research Group 
(NSPIRG) * OPIRG-Carleton * OPIRG-Toronto * Hands Off Venezuela – Ottawa * 
Café Justicia * Grupo Apoyo Pueblos de las Americas(GAPA) * Ottawa Fair Trade 
Network (OFTN) * Cross Cultural Sound Exchange * Global Justice Working Group 
of First Unitarian - Ottawa * Halifax Peace Coalition * Student Coalition 
Against War (SCAW--Halifax) * St. Mary's University Women's Centre (Halifax) * 
Dalhousie University Women's Centre (Halifax) * Stopwar.ca (Vancouver)

 The goal in each city is to organize seminars, public meetings and other 
exchanges with the delegation in order to learn more about the labour situation 
in Haiti and to stimulate ongoing contact and solidarity between trade union 
and women's rights organizations. The tour will also serve to raise funds for 
the difficult and ongoing work of the speakers and the organizations they 
represent. Here is a list of the currently scheduled speaking dates (more 
information will be available on local indymedia networks): (1) Ottawa, May 23, 
24 (2) Toronto, southern Ontario May 25 to 28 (3) Halifax, May 25, 26 (4) 
Winnipeg, May 27, 28 (5) Calgary, Edmonton, May 29 (6) Fredericton, May 29, 30 
(7) Vancouver, May 30 (8) Victoria, May 31 (9) Montreal, June 2 to 5.


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