Wellington Chibebe and Lovemore Matombo

I’d like you to send the Trades Union Congress (TUC) a photo of yourself.
It is wanted because two leaders of the Zimbabwean unions – Wellington Chibebe and Lovemore Matombo, President and General Secretary respectively of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) – were arrested for talking about the political situation in Zimbabwe on May Day and are going to be tried for ‘spreading falsehoods prejudicial to the state’ this coming Monday.
The idea is to shut them up over the course of the re-run elections. They are out on bail, but are prevented from appearing in public or making public statements, in contravention of their human rights, and they’re being very brave in going voluntarily into court next week even though they are no strangers to being really badly beaten up in police custody.
There are demos being called now in a number of countries (including the UK) on Monday, and to help get some more attention to their case, the TUC is trying to make a giant photo mosaic portrait of them, made up of supporters’ photos from all around the world. At least 1,700 photos are needed.
Your photo would end up 1 inch square on a big mosaic at the London demo, and the TUC w’ll be using the image for as much media and publicity as they can get with it. I’ve submitted my photo; will you please send yours?
Send the photo of yourself to zim@tuc.org.uk or MMS it to 07546 229055. Many thanks for helping!
More information here.
Footnote (26/7/08): The mosaic was completed – see here.

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One Comment

  • Mavis Smith
    June 19th, 2008 at 10:06 am

    Done
    And I hate photos of myself – but its all in a good cause and it will be lost amongst t’others.