International Labour Defense — ‘An injury to one is an injury to all’
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10 SOCIALIST ACTION OCTOBER 2017 mobilization, despite repeated road blocks put in their way by the Macri government.
Nadia Shoufani—After a year-long battle against the attacks of right-wing Zionist organizations like B’nai Bríth Canada, the Center for Israel and Jew ish Affairs, and the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center Canada, Nadia Shou fani—the Peel-Dufferin (just west of Toronto, Canada) Catholic School teach er accused of promoting violence and terrorism, and suspended for a month with pay by her employer—has been cleared of the charges leveled against her.
Posting on Sept. 8 on Facebook, Shou fani said: “A victory for myself, for the Palestinian solidarity movement, for the freedom of expression!” The Zionist organizations have lost another battle to silence those who criticize the Israeli apartheid state and its genocidal poli cies towards the Palestinian people.
Shoufani not only kept her job and de feated the attempts to silence her open support for the Palestinian liberation struggle and its political prisoners held by the Israeli state, she and her sup porters—which included her union, the Ontario English Catholic Teachers As sociation—have scored an important victory against the Zionist lobby and its attempt to chill speech against criti cism of the apartheid policies of the Is raeli and international Zionist political movements.
Santiago Maldonado—The inter national campaign for the disclosure of the whereabouts of Mapuche indig enous rights activist Santiago Maldo nado, kidnapped by the national police near Chubut in Patagonia, southern Ar gentina, has spread to Europe and the Middle East. Palestinian activists staged a group demo demanding to know his whereabouts. In Madrid, Spain, hun dreds of activists marched through the downtown in a militant display of international solidarity demanding to know: Where is Santiago Maldonado?
Maldonado is one of hundreds of Mapuche people organizing to defend their territory against imperialist en croachment on their traditional land. The Mapuche people of Patagonia have a traditional territorial connection that encompasses both Argentina and Chile. They have a history of unremitting re sistance to colonialism and imperial ism, and have suffered great repression for it.
The international dimension of the campaign around the kidnapping of Maldonado has created a political cri sis for the Argentinian government, who first tried to dismiss the claims of kidnapping. Now, in its latest maneu ver, the government is trying to lay the blame for the disappearance of San tiago at the foot of five policemen. The policemen in their turn have said they (continued on page 11, in “Labor Briefing”)
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