Bill Fletcher Jr. has worked for several labor unions in addition to serving as a senior staffperson in the national AFL-CIO. Fletcher is the former president of TransAfrica Forum; a Senior Scholar with the Institute for Policy Studies; an editorial board member of BlackCommentator.com; and in the leadership of several other projects. Fletcher is the co-author (with Peter Agard) of “The Indispensable Ally: Black Workers and the Formation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, 1934-1941”; the co-author (with Dr. Fernando Gapasin) of “Solidarity Divided: The crisis in organized labor and a new path toward social justice“; and the author of “‘They’re Bankrupting Us’ — And Twenty other myths about unions.” Fletcher is a syndicated columnist and a regular media commentator on television, radio and the Web. You can find him at billfletcherjr.com
He wrote the article Obama Morocco and Saharawi Self-Determination.
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Sahrawi Human Rights Defender Ali Salem Tamek in Ait Meloul Prison, Morocco. Wikipedia.
Last November 2015, Moroccans wave national flags during celebrations in Laayoune, the main city in Western Sahara, of the 40th anniversary of the Green March that led to the Moroccan occupation of the former Spanish colony. On November 6, 1975, 350,000 Moroccans escorted by 20,000 troops, marched into Western Sahara. Photo Fadel Senna / AFP
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Saharan Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) Commemoration of the 30th independence day in the Liberated Territories (2006) – by jaysen naidoo – polisario. 20060227. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 via Commons
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Thanks for these useful reminders and links to my blog. Let me post here the link to your great blog: http://ditikisahara.wordpress.com My Greek is more than non existent, apart from Efaristo Poli, but I felt an immediate and deep local and global empathy. In solidarity.
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Thank you so much for your support, in all different aspects and ways!
You know the best way to learn a language, don’t you? Come over! (Your CV says you can and you should)
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