Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 12:45:52 -0800 (PST) From: Michael Eisenscher <meisenscher-AT-igc.apc.org> Subject: M-I: Tabasco refuse collectors may die URGENT ATTENTION IS REQUESTED. REPOST AND/OR DISTRIBUTE. > >From: Alastair Wilson <100723.2363-AT-CompuServe.COM> > >Tabasco refuse collectors on hunger strike may die >Urgent solidarity needed > >Jorge Luis Alamilla Magan~a and Venancio Jimenez Martinez, the two Tabasco >refuse collectors have now (January 7th,1997) been on hunger strike in front of >the National Human Rights Commission for 84 days. Five other workers have been >on hunger strike for 44 days and one of them, Agustin Vicente Sanchez has >decided to stop taking any liquids as well. "If what they want is someone to die >before they give in to our demands, I voluntarily offer my life for the sake of >all my comrades and their families". > >Their health is very bad. They can barely speak or open their eyes. They have >lost notion of time and suffer cramps in different parts of their bodies. >Accoridng to one of the doctors they have reached a point were damage to their >health could be irreversible. They could suffer permanent brain damage. > >The workers have recieved solidarity from many different social, political, >trade union and human rights organisations. The PRD (main opposition party) NEC >decided to fully support the workers' cause and their two main leaders, Manuel >Lopez Obrador and Cuauhtemoc Cardenas visit the strikers everyday. The PRD has >demanded the president's direct intervention in the conflict to no reply from >Ernesto Zedillo yet. > >The demands of the workers are: reinstatement of all 336 refuse collectors >sacked in Villahermosa (Tabasco), payement of the wages for the days of work >lost, withdrawal of the 46 arrest warrants against them. > >They have been offered 190 jobs on casual basis and redundancy payements for >another 110 workers but they have refused this "offer" and made clear that they >want their jobs back. > >Urgent solidarity action is needed. >Please circulate this appeal as widely as possible > >Send faxes of protest demanding immediate solutions to: > >Secretaria de Gobernacion >Licenciado Esteban Moctezuma Barragan >Fax: 525 521 27 63 > >Letters of solidarity can be sent to: > >Broad Front of Democratic Struggle >Calle Insurgentes n. 203 >Fracc. Insurgentes >Ciudad Industrial Villahermosa >TABASCO, Mexico. > >or emailed through: > >National Trade Union Commission, >Party of the Democratic Revolution >a la atencion de los trabajadores de la limpia de Tabasco >joseluisr-AT-laneta.apc.org > >Background information about the conflict: >http://www.gn.apc.org/labournet/tabasco.html > > --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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