Who Owns Solidarity Center?:

I recieved this from a Union Brother. Just thought I'd pass it along. It does raise soem interestig questions as to what the actual relationship between the AFL-CIO and the State Dept...............PEACE.............Scott

----- Original Message -----
From: Tom Baker - Nicaragua Solidarity
To: billbeth
Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 7:01 PM
Subject: Fw: [Lasc-nedwg] Who Owns Solidarity Center?:


Tom Baker here. Keep the NED campaign in your minds, please.
The action is going on. On the Haiti front you may have heard
Democracy Now or Freedom Speech Radio - Action against
US and Brazil governments for their funding of atrocities. Also
on the Haiti front, Saturday Nov 19, the SOA weekend at
Ft Benning, the Tribunal on Haiti is in Boston with judicial action
of more indictments from the Commissiomn of Inquity fact find
early October. For background visit www.lasolidarity.org

On Venezuela, who OWNS the AFL CIO Solidarity Ctr?

Think DECEMBER 2 Day of International Solidarity with Venezuela

----- Original Message -----
From: Chuck Kaufman
To: 'NED- List'
Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 11:31 AM
Subject: [Lasc-nedwg] Who Owns Solidarity Center?:


Who Owns Solidarity Center?: LaborTalk (November 9, 2005) “Is AFL-CIO¹s International Solidarity Center A Subsidiary of the U.S. State Department?” By Harry Kelber



Excerpt: “…a well-kept secret about Solidarity Center is that it receives 90% (nearly $30 million) of its annual revenue from U.S. government agencies, but gets less than 2% ($600,000) from the AFL-CIO. These figures are from Solidarity Center¹s 2003-2004 Annual Report.



You may wonder why the State Department and other agencies of the federal government lavish such huge sums of money on the AFL-CIO, which is otherwise under constant attack by the Bush administration. While Solidarity Center keeps its relations with the U.S. government secret, it surely must supply some paybacks to the government for the millions of dollars it receives to keep it in operation. The State Department is not known for zeal in promoting international labor solidarity, so it must demand other advantages which the Center is apparently committed to supplying.” (Read entire article at: http://www.uslaboragainstwar.org/article.php?id=9551