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URL: internationallabordefense.org 

Email: cforild@gmail.com

Date: August 31, 2017

The Committee for International Labor Defense joins with the Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, the French Communist Party, and the European United Left / Nordic Green Left of the European Parliament, in calling on Israeli authorities to release field researcher and human rights defender Salah Hamouri, 32, who has received a six month administrative detention order.

Hamouri, a Palestinian-French dual citizen was arrested in a pre-dawn raid on his home last Wednesday, August 16, 2017, by the Israeli army. 

The Israeli state’s practice of arbitrary detention is a grave violation of international laws and human righ...

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URL:   internationallabordefense.org

Email: cforild@gmail.com

Date:  August 23, 2017

STATEMENT

BY THE

COMMITTEE FOR INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE

ON THE BOSTON PROTESTERS

The Committee for International Labor Defense joins with our sisters and brothers of Black Lives Matter Boston and Cambridge, to call on the Boston Municipal Court, Mayor Marty Walsh, District Attorney Dan Conley, and Police Commissioner William Evans, to drop all charges stemming from the unlawful arrest and detainment of about 30 protesters on Saturday, August 19, 2017, at the “Fight Supremacy” rally on Boston Common.

Many of the protesters were unnecessarily injured by police during the confrontations and arrests. All those arrested were charged...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.––On March 31, 2016 a Pinellas, Florida sheriff’s deputy was responsible for the drowning deaths of three teenage African girls, Laniya Miller, Ashaunti Butler (both 15 years of age) and Dominique Battle (16).  

Despite an attempted cover-up by the Sheriff’s Department, there is police evidence that Howard Skaggs, head of the Department’s DUI undercover unit pursued the three girls in a county-prohibited high-speed chase, with no official markings or blue lights required to identify law enforcement.  

Deliberately chasing the girls into a trap in which there was no light and a pond at the end of the road, the girls’ vehicle did as Skaggs thought it would, and crashed 15 feet into the water. Despite hearing the girls’ crie...

The Cuban Five & US Labor Leaders Speak in Support of Reviving International Labor Defense

Dear brothers and sisters of the International Labor Defense:

We want to express our support and solidarity to the International Labor Defense in this struggle for the freedom of our political prisoners all over the globe.  Please keep us updated and count on us always.

Five big hugs!

“The Cuban Five”

Ramón Labañino Salazar

Queridos compañeros y compañeras de la Defensa Laboral Internacional:

Queremos expresar nuestro apoyo y solidaridad con la Defensa Laboral Internacional en esta lucha por la libertad de nuestros prisioneros políticos en todo el mundo.  Favor de mantenernos al día y cuenta con nosotros siempre.

¡Cinco Grandes Abrazos!

"Los Cubanos Cinco...

The Committee for International Labor Defense is very pleased to report that David Ravelo, arrested and imprisoned by Colombian authorities in August 2010, has been conditionally released.  Tom Whitney, who has worked on the Ravelo defense for many years and who visited him in prison, sent us confirmation of the good news.

For more details and links on the case, please read W.T. Whitney's article Colombian prisoner David Ravelo must go free, from the January 5, 2017 edition of People's World. 

In addition to the outpouring of international solidarity from many countries, CILD members raised David Ravelo’s defense in China on several occasions, most recently in April and May, and arranged for a Colombian Communist Party comrade of David R...