May Day Public Event: Free All Jailed Trade Unionists - in Hong Kong, Myanmar, Iran, Turkey and Belarus!
Date: Sunday, 2 May 2021
Time: 15:00 GMT
11:00 in Ottawa 16:00 in London 17:00 in Brussels 18:00 in Istanbul & Minsk 21:30 in Yangon 23:00 in Hong Kong For more times, check here
Where: Online via Zoom - details will be sent to all registrants by email
Speakers:
Monireh Abdi, the wife of jailed Iranian teacher trade unionist Esmail Abdi, who has been the focus of a number of our campaigns over the years.
Cheung-fung FAN from the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions whose leader, Lee Cheuk-yan, has been subjected to ruthless persecution by the state.
Lizaveta Merliak, international secretary of the Belarusian independent unions, who was herself arrested during the recent months of protest following the rigged Presidential elections in her country that kept Alexander Lukashenko in power.
Ă–mer Ongun is a diversity, equity and inclusion consultant and performing artist now living in Canada who will also speak. His partner, Cihan Erdal, a sociologist, peace and LGBTI+ activist and a member of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), is currently imprisoned in Turkey. Following his arrest last September, CUPE has campaigned for his release.
Khaing Zar Aung, the president of Industrial Workers Federation of Myanmar (IWFM) and a member of the executive committee of the Confederation of Trade Unions Mynamar (CTUM) -- who will be speaking on behalf of a trade union movement and indeed an entire nation facing severe repression at the hands of the military dictatorship.