File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1997/97-01-08.181, message 41


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
>
>




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