It's going to get noisy for a while, but at least, it's them against them.
Posted on 03/17/2007 6:48:34 PM PDT by nuconvert
Iran crushes teachers' pay protest
Robert Tait in Tehran
Saturday March 17, 2007
Guardian
The authorities in Iran have arrested up to 1,000 teachers in a brutal crackdown that signals their determination to break a pay revolt. Riot police beat demonstrators with batons as they tried to gather outside Iran's parliament and education ministry and herded them into police vans and buses before transporting them to detention centres across Tehran.
Around 150 of those arrested in Wednesday's protest are still in custody, with the ringleaders believed to be in the capital's notorious Evin prison. Others were released after signing a commitment not to participate in "illegal" demonstrations.
The clampdown follows recent rallies outside parliament, which drew up to 10,000 demonstrators, many of whom displayed banners criticising President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government as part of their campaign for higher pay. An average university-educated secondary-school teacher earns £160-180 a month, below the poverty line and much less than workers in other government sectors.
Last week, police arrested six teachers' union leaders
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The stewpid will get stewpider............
( "authorities in Iran have arrested up to 1,000 teachers") >>
time to do that in the USA when they strike illegally
Union leaders...
It's going to get noisy for a while, but at least, it's them against them.
If the state of New Jersey did the same thing, our property taxes might finally stop going up exponentially.
Teachers also protested in city of Kermanshah - west Iran Kurdish region
pong
The clampdown follows recent rallies outside parliament, which drew up to 10,000 demonstrators, many of whom displayed banners criticising President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government as part of their campaign for higher pay.
Wasn't that the lead story in the NY Times the other day? Oops my mistake I was confusing it with Anna Nicole Smith.
"workers in other government sectors."
The authorities in Iran, Riot police,
Iran's parliament, bus drivers, detention centres,
Evin prison gaurds,
Mullahs and the socialist parasites.
We could only hope one day, they can experience
freedom and democracy
without Democrats or Main Stream Media CNN, CBS(bs), ABC,
MSNBC, ect.
Thanks for the ping. Payvand also reported on this and the status of other demonstrators.
http://www.payvand.com/news/07/mar/1234.html
"Wasn't that the lead story in the NY Times the other day? Oops my mistake I was confusing it with Anna Nicole Smith."
lol
Different subject: Kamalfar family (the ones who were about to be deported to Tehran from Moscow airport a few months ago) recently arrived in Vancouver/Canada and are free!
"time to do that in the USA when they strike illegally"
Why wait? lol!
Thanks for the link...And the good news.
The mullahs continue to create the force for their
overthrow.
Teachers have students.
Attention Mike Wallace... time for another ABC interview with your 'humble professor buddy'...lil Ahma monkey man.
IMO, arresting 100,000 teachers for malfeasance (here in the USA) would be a good start.
"Different subject: Kamalfar family (the ones who were about to be deported to Tehran from Moscow airport a few months ago) recently arrived in Vancouver/Canada and are free!"
I posted 2 threads on that but forgot to ping people...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1802443/posts
I heard the news thru another source a couple of days ago.
Ping people next time! lol :-)
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