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I. YCL National Council Meeting April
24th-26th in Chicago, IL
II. In The News: As U.S. Weights Taliban
Negotiations, Afghans Are Already Talking
III. Tell Your Representative and Senators
to Sign onto the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA)
IV. DC YCL Fightings for Immigrant Rights
I. YCL National Council
Meeting April 24th-26th in Chicago, IL
The Young Communist League, USA will be holding its
Spring National Council meeting in Chicago, IL April 24th-26th. This
meeting is open to all YCL members. We will be discussing the impacts
of the current economic crisis on young people, what's the YCL's role
in this new political situation, what the YCL will be up to the coming
months and more! Members will be receiving a registration form in the
mail shortly. If you are interested in attending, please email
y...@yclusa.org with "Spring NC" in the subject line.
II. In The News: As U.S.
Weighs Taliban Negotiations, Afghans Are Already Talking
by Carlotta Gall
Even as President Obama floated the idea of negotiating
with moderate elements of the Taliban, Afghan and foreign officials
here said that preliminary discussions with the Taliban leadership were
already under way and could be developed into more formal talks with
the support of the United States.
Click here
to read the full article.
Discussion Questions:
1. Do you think Obama should have talks and negotiate
with the Taliban? Should he only talk with the moderate elements or
with every faction in the Taliban including extremists?
2. Do you think elements of the Taliban should be
allowed to hold governmental positions?
3. Do you think there are diplomatic solutions to the
war in Afghanistan? If so, do they have to include negotiations with
the Taliban?
4. Those who are against talking with the Taliban say
that if Obama holds negotiations with them he will be legitimizing
terrorism. Do you think that is true?
III. Tell Your
Representative and Senators to Sign onto the Employee Free Choice Act
(EFCA)
This week the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) was
introduced into the House and Senate. This bill will make it easier for
workers to join a union and create stiffer penalties for corporations
who engage in anti-union activities. This bill is essential to helping
rebuild our country and getting us out of the current economic crisis.
Corporate lobbyists and the right wing are pouring
millions of dollars to fight this bill. Your Representative and
Senators need to hear the voices of the millions of working people who
are demanding the right to join a union. Sign
this petition and tell your Representative and Senators to support
the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA).
IV. DC YCL Fightings for
Immigrant Rights
The DC YCL Club has been active in the immigrant rights
struggles at the University of Maryland (UMD) and in the surrounding
areas of DC. Over the weekend in Virgina, the club attended a 400
person rally outside a 1,040 bed capacity detention center for
undocumented immigrants awaiting deportation. The dentention center
would cost $64 per day per detainee given to the Immigration Centers of
America (ICA), money that could be spent on funding education,
healthcare and other needs of working people.
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