Solidarity conference with labor activists

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In solidarity with the Center of Trade Union and Workers Services (CTUWS) against the regime’s crackdown–which started with an arbitrary decree to close down the center’s branch in Naga’a Hamadi, Qena, on 29 March, followed by the ongoing harassment of the el-Mahalla el-Kobra branch–a conference will be held at the center’s branch in Mahalla, tomorrow Thursday 12 April at 6 p.m.

The Center is located at Abu Shahin residential buildings, Building #3, Entrance B, in front of Abu Shahin bakery, in el-Mahalla el-Kobra.

Transportation will be arranged for Cairo participants. A bus will be available in front of the Lawyers’ Syndicate, in Ramses St., and will take off to Mahalla at 3.30 p.m.

Argentinean teachers strike over police killing

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From Al-Jazeera:

Argentine teachers have held a one-day nationwide strike after a high school chemistry teacher was killed by police last week during a protest over pay in the southern province of Neuquen.
In Buenos Aires, the capital, workers at banks, hospitals, government offices, and public transportation joined the strike for an hour on Monday afternoon.
Police in the northern city of Salta fired tear gas at groups of protesters, local media said.
Carlos Fuentealba, a 41-year-old teacher, died on Thursday, a day after he was hit in the head by a tear gas cartridge when police broke up a teachers’ protest and road block in Neuquen.