Minimum wage protest in Port au Prince - Oct, 2012 BO is agitating to demand justice for beaten & fired Premium Apparel worker, Leo Vedél, and asks for your continued solidarity! Workers have been leafleting at Premium Apparel, as well as, all the factories in the area. Gédéon, the manager who beat Leo, [...]
SOTA members in Haiti Beginning in mid September of 2011, a nascent Haitian garment workers’ union decided that in their continued efforts to defend and demand that their factories respect their basic democratic rights – they would go public. Within 2 weeks, spokespeople for Sendika Ouvriye Takstil ak Abiman (SOTA) were out of [...]
August 28th saw the conclusion of “the largest multinational training exercise in the world,” with 17+ countries and over 3,000 troops participating in a training operation to prepare against a serious military threat against the Panama Canal. Photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Elisandro Diaz Which begs the question….who the hell is threatening [...]