#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #teaparty Colombia Nationwide Strike Against 'Free Trade,' Privatization, Poverty http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/08/25 Ignored by English-language media, rural uprisings spread across industries as hundreds of thousands protest US-backed govt A nationwide strike in Colombia—which started as a rural peasant uprising and spread to miners, teachers, medical professionals, truckers, and students—reached its 7th day Sunday as at least 200,000 people blocked roads and launched protests against a U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement and devastating policies of poverty and privatization pushed by US-backed right-wing President Juan Manuel Santos. "[The strike is a condemnation] of the situation in which the Santos administration has put the country, as a consequence of its terrible, anti-union and dissatisfactory policies," declared the Central Unitaria de Trabajadores (CUT), the country's largest union, in a statement...