Tonight on Labor Express I aired an interview with Joel Kovel, Professor at Bard College, author of Enemy of Nature: The End of Capitalism or the End of the World and editior of the Journal Capitalism, Nature, Socialism. Here are links to more about Joel Kovel... http://www.joelkovel.org http://www.codz.org http://www.amazon.com/Enemy-Nature-Capitalism-World-Second/dp/1842778714/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1238374451&sr=8-2 http://www.amazon.com/Overcoming-Zionism-Creating-Democratic-Palestine/dp/0745325696/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1238374451&sr=8-1

2009 ECONOMIC STIMULUS TOUR Fighting sweatshops and building a new economy that puts workers first Monday, March 23 @ 7:30 pmLoyola University Lakeshore CampusInformation Commons, 4th Floor, 6501 N. Kenmore Ave.Take the El to the Loyola stop on the Red LineFree and open to the public. Complete tour details available here: http://www.sweatfree.org/tour As part of the SweatFree Illinois Campaign, workers from Honduras and Puerto Rico will join Wisconsin labor advocates to speak out against tax dollar support for sweatshops and for economic policies that lift all boats. Come hear their stories and take action for positive change in 2009. This year, our elected officials will spend billions of our tax dollars on uniforms and other clothing for public employees like police officers and firefighters. Unfortunately, most of this gear is made in sweatshops by workers forced to work long hours for poverty wages in inhumane and abusive conditions. With the global economy reeling, now more than e...

INTERNATIONAL LIAISON COMMITTEE P.O. Box 40009, San Francisco, CA 94140. Tel. (415) 641-8616; fax: (415) 626-1217. email: ilcinfo@earthlink.net Web site: www.owcinfo.org Please Excuse Duplicate Postings ------------------------------------------------ PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY IN THIS MESSAGE 1) Update: First Victory!: Agreement Signed, General Strike Ends after 44 Days! -- by ILC U.S. Coordinators Eduardo Rosario and Alan Benjamin (based on Communiqué from ATPC) 2) Final Week of Negotiations: An Account of the Last Week of the Struggle -- by Alan Benjamin (based on reports from Robert Fabert, editor of Travayé è Peyzan 3) Background Articles on the General Strike from Issue No. 325 (February 25, 2009) of the ILC International Newsletter ******************** 1) Update: First Victory!: Agreement Signed, General Strike Ends after 44 Days! Dear Sisters and Brothers: We received this morning a communiqué from the Guadeloupe-based Caribbean Workers and Peoples Alliance (ATPC) informing us th...