Promoting Racial Equality Across The Americas

International Vice-President Fred Redmond travelled to Brazil to participate in the 20^th Anniversary Celebration of INSPIR, the Inter-American Trade Union Institute to promote Racial Equality.  Along with the Josh Williams, President of the Metro-Washington AFL-CIO Central Labor Council, the leaders exchanged experiences and affirmed labor’s continued commitment to racial equality through a broad based economic justice movement.

Over 60 union leaders from  Latin America—including the Dominican Republic, Chile, Colombia and Honduras and Brazil marked the 20th year of trade unions’ efforts to eliminate race-based economic inequality in the Americas, and to call for Colombians of African descent to be included in peace talks and post conflict implementation there.

“The forces that are hurting the African American community – rising inequality, the premeditated destruction of political rights, and systematic state violence are directly linked to a global movement of the right that you are experiencing in Brazil.  Just as the attack is global, so our resistance must be globalized,” commented VP Redmond.