50th Anniversary of Chile Coup, Labor Solidarity & AFL-CIO

Location: 518 Valencia St., SF

Fifty year ago on September 11, 1973, a coup overthrew the Allende government and set up a rightwing military regime led by Pinochet. It was supported by Nixon and Kissinger and the leadership of the AFL-CIO, which funded and supported the coup. This history is still hidden.

ILWU longshoremen in the Bay Area took solidarity action by refusing to ship arms to Chile.

We will look at the history with people who have direct experience and the fight in the labor movement today to open the books of the AFL-CIO, compensate the families of trade unionists killed, and end the $75 million the AFL-CIO Solidarity Center receives from the US funded National Endowment For Democracy.

Guests:
Felipe Tamayo Flores is the National Director of the National Association of University Technical Employees of FONASA. (ANPTUF) . FONASA is the public health system in Chile.  He is also Secretary of the Committee in Defense of the Human and Union Rights-Clotario Blest, university instructor and public worker.
Ernesto Rojas Ubina, Director of Committee for Human and Union Rights CODESH Chile
Professor Ruth Needleman, Labor Education Project On AFL-CIO International Operations
(https://aflcio-int.education)
Bob Carson, ILWU Local 34 who supported military boycott by longshore workers
Lisa Milos, member CWA UPTE UCSF