Are you curious about what life is like in Iraq for working people now? Tired of the mainstream media's slanted coverage?

On Tuesday, June 19 at 5:30, two members of the Iraqi Trade Union movement will be speaking at Friends Center (1501 Cherry St.). Faleh Abood Umara, General Secretary of the Iraqi Federation of Oil Workers, and Hashmeya Mohsen al Hussein, President of the Electrical Utility Workers' Union, are on a national tour sponsored by US Labor Against the War.

Local sponsors of this event include the Philadelphia Labor Council, AFL-CIO; the American Friends Service Committee; AFSCME District Council 47; SEIU District 1199P; the Philadelphia Coalition of Labor Union Women; the National Organization for Women, Philadelphia Chapter; Temple University Association of University Professionals, AFT Local 4531; AFT Local 2026 at CCP; Veterans for Peace Chapter 31; Temple University Hospital Nurses Assocation/PASNAP and Veterans for America.

Tickets are $20 per person--for more info, email kblack at dc47 dot org or morbraxton at aol dot com.