Have you contacted his office to find out why he is not fighting the oil companies and standing with the workers in Iraq? He said he would stand up to the corporations and stand up for workers rights.
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/06/1359232I began by asking Faleh Abood Umara to describe the current situation for oil workers in Iraq and why he’s protesting this proposed oil law.
FALEH ABOOD UMARA: With regards to the situation of the Iraqi oil workers, they’re persevering in their work and preserving the Iraqi oil wells. The reason we went on strike was to make twenty-seven demands, which we submitted to the Iraqi prime minister. He agreed to them, but the minister of oil did not implement the demands that led to the strike.
The most important point or one of the most important points is our demand not to rush through the new Iraqi oil law, because we believe that this oil law does not serve the interests of the Iraqi people. So we ask our friends in the United States, as well, to stand in solidarity with us and publicize the ill effects of this law, so that it never is agreed upon in the parliament."http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0605-02.htm Congressman Kucinich to Receive Statement By Oil Workers Union on U.S. Government's Role in Privatizing Iraqi Oil
http://blog.aflcio.org/2007/06/13/iraqi-workers-strike-to-keep-their-oil/"One demand overshadows even these basic needs—renegotiation of the oil law that would turn much of the industry itself over to foreign corporations. And it is this demand that has brought out even the U.S. fighter jets, which have circled and buzzed over the strikers’ demonstrations. In Iraq, the hostile maneuvering of military aircraft is not an idle threat to the people below. This standoff reflects a long history of actions in Iraq by both the Iraqi government and the U.S. occupation administration to suppress union activity."
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