Dictator Pleads with Labourstart: STOP Faxing us!

Eric Lee wrote us recently:

Your support for recent campaigns is having an effect. Sometimes, that effect is immediate.

48 hours ago we asked you to send off messages in support of imprisoned trade union leaders in Eritrea. Your response has been fantastic. Thousands of messages have been pouring in -- at one point, we were hitting 200 messages per hour. Many of those messages have been re-sent by fax to Eritrean embassies around the world, prompting one official in the Oslo embassy to phone up LabourStart and demand that we stop sending them.

What do you think? Should we leave these poor government officials alone? I don't think so. I think we should turn up the pressure! Let's flood them with thousands more messages and keep up the pressure until Ghebremedhin, Andezion and Weldemicael are released.

We know that 90% of the people reading this message still haven't sent off protests to Eritrea. Please don't delay -- time is running out. For more information and to send off your message, go to:

http://www.labourstart.org/eritrea

On the right side bar you will find this [currently] and other Act Now! items that will help those in need [just look at the pleas from the fax receipents.]