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In one of the longest and most bitter recent airline strikes, thousands of mechanics who were members of AMFA Local 33 struck against Northwest Airlines. Their strike was against outsourcing and a massive attack on their conditions and benefits.

This forum and video fundraiser will have presentations by AMFA Local 33 president Ted Ludwig who will report on the lessons of the strike and where the struggle is today.  Also Dawn Mikkelson and Melissa Koch of Emergence Pictures   http://www.emergencepictures.com   are working on a full length documentary about the strike and will also  be screening a part of this documentary as a fundraiser. The movie is called"The Red Tail" www.redtailmovie.com The trailer is now streaming on You Tube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YesTsXzuBKI

They will be returning from a trip to Asia where they are filming how outsourcing is affecting the airline workers in the United States and throughout the world.

Endorsed by Transport Workers Solidarity Committee TWSC

Sponsored by the
Labor Video Project
P.O. Box 720027
San Francisco, CA 94172
lvpsf@labornet.org

As the war in Iraq and Afghanistan enters its seventh year, opposition   to the war among working people in the United States and the world is   massive and growing. The "surge" strategy of sending in more and more troops has become a fiasco for the Pentagon generals, while thousands of Iraqis are killed every month. Before the March 2003 invasion of Iraq,  millions marched against the war in Britain, Italy and Spain as hundreds of thousands took to the streets in the U.S. to oppose it. But that didn't stop the invasion. In the U.S., this "war on terror" has meant wholesale assault   on civil liberties and workers' rights, like the impending imposition of the   hated TWIC card for port workers. And the war keeps going on and on, as   Democrats and Republicans in Congress keep on voting for it.

As historian Isaac Deutscher said during the Vietnam War, a single strike would be more effective than all the peace marches. French dockworkers did strike in the port of Marseilles and helped bring an end to the war in Vietnam. To put a stop to this bloody colonial occupation, labor must use its power.