9 perspectives on the israeli social protest 2011
9 perspectives on the social protest movement that swept Israel in the year 2011 and in which Wac-Maan participated.
27/04/2014
9 perspectives on the social protest movement that swept Israel in the year 2011 and in which Wac-Maan participated.
The directors of The Bank of Israel understand what the government refuses to acknowledge: the Israeli economy doesn’t generate jobs.
By Jodi Rudoren – The New York Times
Israeli industries operating in settlements that most of the world considers illegal and a prime obstacle to peace have become a focus of global attention amid growing momentum for a boycott movement.
Some 30,000 Palestinian workers are employed by Israelis in Area C. Most of them suffer from exploitation and lack of basic rights.
The Workers Advice Center (WAC-MAAN), which seeks justice for all, sees the courageous struggle of the African asylum seekers as an exemplary civic struggle and does all it can to assist, and believes theirs is an important battle in the fight against racism and discrimination.
The struggle of the African asylum seekers in Israel to be recognized as refugees and to be treated as human beings has been in the headlines regularly during the last few weeks. This follows their declaration, on Jan. 5, 2014, of a mass campaign including a strike to demand that the government cease abusing them. On the first day of the campaign, some 25,000 (half of all asylum seekers in Israel) gathered in Tel Aviv’s central Rabin Square in an unprecedented demonstration, showing the government that this is indeed a real human issue. Later, the asylum seekers demonstrated in front of foreign embassies and the UN representative in Israel, declaring that they would continue their struggle until the cancelation of the law that enables unlimited detention, violation of the right to work, and the current policy of not investigating asylum claims.
Tonight we shall be turning the page to 2014. These are some of the things we at WAC-MAAN want to think especially about:
On Sunday, December 22, 2013, the conference for the integration of Arab women in the workforce was held at the Tel-Aviv University under the title “Fair Trade, Fair Employment”. The conference was an initiative of the Sindyanna of Galilee Fair Trade Association, Independent Union Center Ma’an, the Bread and Roses art exhibition, and Italian NGO Cospe, within the EU-funded “Fair Trade Fair Peace” project. Tens of agricultural workers from the Arab Triangle region, women active at the Sindyanna of Galilee visitors’ center in Kufr Manda, Tel-Avivis, and Jaffans attended.
On Sunday, 3 Nov. 2013, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) in Jerusalem will directly employ 13 workers who had been employed for years via a manpower company.
