Next Labor Beat: Employee Free Choice;
IVAW Operation First Casualty

Segment 1: Justice: The Heart of Organizing
This video was produced for the AFL-CIO. It "presents five organizing campaigns that expose the unlawful tactics that employers use to thwart employees’ organizing efforts. It underscores the weakness of our current labor laws and the urgent need for passage of the Employee Free Choice Act. At a time when working families are struggling to hold even and deeply worried about living standards for their children, unions are more important than ever. This bi-partisan act would strengthen protections for workers’ freedom to choose a union and offer greater economic opportunities for all workers."

Segment 2: Iraq Veterans Against the War Deploy for Operation First Casualty
On May 23, at the Vietnam Veterans memorial fountain in downtown Chicago, the local chapter of Iraq Veterans Against the War assembled and, following a few short speeches, left to join other IVAW members in New York City in something called "Operation First Casualty." Aaron Hughes, head of the Chicago chapter of IVWA, explained that, "the first casualty of war is said to be Truth, and we're here to bring the truth of the war home, to wake people up and hopefully bring some urgency to end this war." This will be done through street theater actions dramatizing the impact of an occupying army. (Stills of the actions that weekend are shown). Barry Romo, National Coordinator of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, showing the support of the previous generation of veteran anti-war activists, also provided an historical perspective.

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