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Puerto Rico: Beatings at the Sheraton

The Internationalist
May 2010

“Shock Force” Riot Police Assault Students and Workers

Puerto Rico: Beatings at the Sheraton

Xavier Araújo/El Nuevo Día)
The militarized Shock Force of the Puerto Rican Police threw demonstrators to the ground, beat them with riot clubs and sprayed them with tear gas and pepper spray at the Sheraton Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on the evening of May 20. (Photo: Xavier Araújo/El Nuevo Día)

From our correspondent

SAN JUAN, May 20 – This evening, there was a picket of several hundred students of the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) and workers from a number of sectors, including port workers, university professors and many others. The picket was held in front of a fancy fundraising dinner for businessmen where Governor Luis Fortuño was to give a speech.

When several dozen students entered the luxurious restaurant of the Sheraton Hotel in the Convention Center where the event was being held and tried to go up to where the privatizing, anti-worker governor was scheduled to speak, the notorious Fuerza de Choque (Shock Force) riot squad of the Puerto Rican Police poured in and savagely beat the students, spraying pepper gas in their faces and in some cases directly into their eyes.

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Internationalist Group
2010
05/22
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May 1 March and Festival To Go Ahead -- Community Calls for Immigrants' and Labor Rights

"Everybody recognizes that the system is broken.  Why would there be any reason to keep that system going for any amount of time until we can change it?" Eduardo Cardenas, a member of the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Coalition, is discussing the May 1 March for Immigrants' and Workers' Rights.

2009
04/28
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The Unemployed Need a Union of Their Own

Labor’s Voice for Change (26) April 14, 2009

The Unemployed Need a Union of Their Own;
They Can Become a Powerful Ally of Labor

By Harry Kelber

2009
04/15
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Employee Free Choice Act: The Enemies of Labor and the Lies They Tell

http://socialistworker.org/2009/02/20/enemies-of-unions

Analysis: Adam Turl

The enemies of unions and the lies they tell

Adam Turl looks at the employers' dirty campaign to block legislation that would make it easier to join a union.

February 20, 2009

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SocialistWorker.org: The Enemies of Unions and the Lies They Tell
2009
02/23
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Wobfest

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Fellow Workers:
the Chicago IWW is hosting the 2008 Midwest Wobfest, Nov.8-9 at the UE hall on 37 S. Ashland Avenue. All IWWs and other workers are invited. Presentations require a $10 registration fee. The Saturday night party is open to all (no registration required). You can register by mail, email, or at the door. See the attached documents for the schedule and registration form. Saturday lunch will be provided and housing will be arranged for those who need it.

Registration
Schedule

Contact Email: 
wobfest08@gmail.com
2008
10/29
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