Schedule Of Events

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm : Panama, Repression, The Environment Labor and US Intervention 

Trump and his government appointees have threatened to invade Greenland and the Panama Canal. The Panama Canal was built by workers and thousands died under dangerous conditions and lack of health and safety. Many of these workers were from Jamaica, Barbados and the West Indies. The US broke off part of the land from Colombia to build the Canal and has invaded to keep it under US control. Unions including Suntracs have opposed the threatened take-over by the US, and the Panamanian government has jailed Suntrac union members and other workers opposed to the take-over and an toxic project for copper that would destroy their land and environment.

Speakers :

Gabriel Prawl, ILWU 52 past president & chair of Seattle Chapter A.Philip Institute

Valielza Huynh-O’keefe, Workers Strike Back

Julian de Gortari, UAW 4811 UCLA member

Location : Online - Zoom Event