HELP MAKE REPARATION
TO THE PEOPLE OF IRAQ

The staff of 8th Day has worked to stop U.S. aggression against
Iraq since the late 1980s. Staff efforts include the demand that
the U.S.  make reparation to Iraq and its people for the hell
unleashed upon them.

In that same spirit of reparation, Iraq Veterans Against the
War (IVAW), a group with whom 8th Day has long worked, will
be traveling with a U.S. labor delegation to participate in the
First International Iraqi Labor Conference in Erbil, Iraq, which
takes place from March 13‑14, 2009. The conference will bring
together trade unionists from across Iraq with international allies
from labor movements around the world.

Since the U.S. occupation began, Iraqi workers have been targeted
in an attempt to suppress the population and control Iraq's natural
resources. The initial Coalition Provisional Authority upheld Saddam
Hussein's law of banning unions; labor leaders have been killed,
tortured, and imprisoned; worker's rights have been routinely
violated; and union bank accounts have been frozen.

In turn, Iraqi labor unions and workers have been among the leading
non‑sectarian forces defending Iraqi sovereignty and democracy by
exercising their collective power through strikes to increase wages,
resist privatization of Iraq's oil industry, and stand up to foreign
contractors who threaten their livelihoods.

The IVAW trip will cost approximately $10,000. This includes $2181
for travel expenses (air fare, ground travel, food, lodging and entry into
Iraq). IVAW will also make a sizeable donation to offset the $150,000
cost of the conference. They will do so in the spirit of reparation for the
human and structural damages Iraq has suffered, and stopping the
corporate pillaging of Iraq, so that the Iraqi people can control their own
lives and future.

You can be part of this effort at solidarity and reparation.

For more info about the delegation, visit http://ivaw.org/node/4855

ACTION
Make a donation to IVAW for their trip to Iraq. No amount is too small
because it helps to put us in solidarity with the people of Iraq in their
attempt to control their own lives. It is also an effort to make reparation.

Tax‑deductible donations can be made to
(Please write Iraq trip in memo line):

Iraq Veterans Against the War
Attn Kelly Dougherty
1501 Cherry St.
Philadelphia, PA  19102