Wednesday, March 05, 2008

March 6th - Mansour Osanloo Day

A demonstration will be held outside the IR Embassy in London on March 6th from 12:30 to 13:30, while across the UK thousands of transport workers will be leafleting passengers in Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Newcastle and other locations.

The Nationwide protests are in recognition that Osanloo is a prisoner of conscience in Iran for trying to organise an independent trade union.

A red double decker routemaster bus will be visiting London protest sites throughout the day. It will be at the embassy demonstration and will host a photo opportunity outside Portcullis House, Bridge Street, London SW1A (this event not yet confirmed, but planned to take place from 10:30 to 11:00), where union leaders and MPs (TBC) can be photographed next to it with the Houses of Parliament in the background.

The campaign is being supported by the TUC unions Aslef, GMB, RMT, TSSA, Unison and Unite, as well as Amnesty International, which has declared Osanloo a prisoner of conscience.

For more information, click on:

International Transport Workers' Federation

National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

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Winston said...

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