UNION LEADER JAILED

Today’s appeal will be short, sharp and to the point: A life may be at stake and we need you to take just a few seconds out of your day to do something about it..

Almost 10,000 of you have sent a protest message to the government of Iran over the imprisonment of Esmail Abdi, a teachers union leader.  Which is wonderful: thank-you!

But that means that many of you have not.  You need to and soon.  Just 5 years ago another teachers union leader, Farzad Kamangar, was jailed and then executed by the government of Iran.  By sending messages we’re telling Iran, as well as Esmail and his family, that the world is watching.

Sending your message will take just a few seconds.  Just click HERE.

More information on Esmail’s case and the situation faced by Iranian trade unionists generally can be heard in a RadioLabour segment from last week which you can listen to HERE.

If you have a Facebook or Twitter account you can also support Esmail by joining the Thunderclap event that the Canadian Teachers Federation has created.  Thunderclap allows the social media accounts of hundreds or thousands of users to post and tweet the same solidarity message at the same time, magnifying the effect of the campaign.  The Thunderclap is scheduled to take place on 17 July, so you have only a few days to sign on.

As with everything else we ask you to do, this takes only a few seconds.  The Thunderclap sign-on page for this campaign is HERE.

Thanks.  Please act now.

Derek Blackadder
LabourStart Canada