<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1578" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV> TOP IRANIAN UNION LEADER JAILED BY REGIME - INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED Last winter, the Iranian capital city of Tehran was practically shut down by striking bus drivers.  The reaction of the regime was swift and brutal -- hundreds of workers were arrested in an attempt to break their union.  The union leader, Mansour Osanloo, was jailed for 8 months and finally released on bail -- but last Sunday was arrested again while on his way to the Labour Ministry.  Osanloo was verbally and physically assaulted, threatened with a gun, and driven away by plain-clothes police. Unions around the world are reacting, demanding that the Iranian government release Osanloo immediately. Please add your voice to this mounting wave of international protest - go here: http://www.labourstart.org/cgi-bin/solidarityforever/show_campaign.cgi?c=167 In addition, we'd like to you consider downloading and printing out an offline version of this campaign, here: http://www.labourstart.org/freemansour.pdf You can make copies of this page and take it to meetings, signing up people offline.   Working together, we can turn this into the biggest online campaign LabourStart has ever run -- and let's send a loud and clear message to Tehran that workers' rights are human rights, and must be respected everywhere. ***</DIV> <DIV>____________________________________ Travis W Fast Ph.D ABD York University Political Science Toronto, On</DIV></BODY></HTML>