Stop Faxing Us!

Following up on the campaign to bring awareness to the three labor leaders being held captive by the government of Eritrea, LabourStart sent out this email:

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: LabourStart.

I sent another email just to add to the volume.  If you haven't, please do.  If you have a blog, post this.  And tell all your friends.  It only takes a minute and it's having some effect.

Comments

[Merhawie Woldezion]

Has anyone asked why it is that they are being held in a criminal prison? Why do we immediately assume that the Government has done something wrong?