{"id":6313,"date":"2025-06-20T12:45:35","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T19:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=6313"},"modified":"2025-07-22T10:02:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T17:02:56","slug":"the-afl-cio-solidarity-center-labor-internationalism-trump","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/event\/the-afl-cio-solidarity-center-labor-internationalism-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"The AFL-CIO Solidarity Center, Labor, Internationalism &#038; Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\">(Zoom event)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Trump government and Elon Musk shutdown funding to the National\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Endowment For Democracy (NED) which partially funds the AFL-CIO Solidarity Center. Additional funds comes from USAID and it has a yearly budget of over $70 million.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Solidarity Center has received over $1 billion from the US government for its international operations and the AFL-CIO leadership has kept it\u2019s operations secret from the rank and file members of the union. In a successful effort to keep the funding going, the rest of the funding cycle this year, the Solidarity Center executive director Shawn Bader-Blau filed a legal brief to the Trump government about why this funding was essential to the United States.<br \/>\nThis panel will look at the role of the Solidarity Center internationally and how it has been an appendage of US imperialist operations around the world harming independent unions to overthrow governments and training pro-capitalist union officials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Speakers:<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em><strong>Jeff Schurke<\/strong><\/em>, Professor &amp;\u00a0 and author of Blue-Collar Empire: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Untold Story of US Labor&#8217;s Global Anticommunist Crusade and the upcoming book No Neutrals There: US Labor, Zionism, and the Struggle for Palestine<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em><strong>Carol Lang<\/strong><\/em>, Professor At CUNY &amp; AFT PSC Delegate<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em><strong>Kim Scipes<\/strong><\/em>, Professor Retired and Author of KMU: Building Genuine Trade Unionism in the Philippines, 1980\u20131994 and AFL-CIO\u2019s Secret War Against Developing Country Workers: Solidarity or Sabotage?<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em><strong>Jeremy Kuzmarov<\/strong><\/em>, Professor and managing editor of Covert Action<br \/>\n<em><strong>Frank Hammer<\/strong><\/em>, retired UAW 909 past president<\/span><\/p>\n<p>by LEPAIO (Labor Education Project on AFL-CIO International Operation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This panel will look at the role of the Solidarity Center internationally and how it has been an appendage of US imperialist operations around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6314,"template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[4,70],"class_list":["post-6313","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-forum-reading","tribe_events_cat-zoom","cat_forum-reading","cat_zoom"],"ticketed":["rsvp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/6313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/6313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7027,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/6313\/revisions\/7027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6313"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=6313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}