Community Forum to protest Free Trade in Columbia
Becky Moeller (photo)
Texas AFL-CIO President
You are invited to join us at our Community Forum -- "Murder, Plunder and Corporate Profit: The Trojan Horse of Free Trade in Colombia," to be held this Thursday, September 27th.
Join us to learn about the ongoing murders of union leaders and exploitation of workers and rural communities across Colombia. Attend to show your opposition to the Colombia Free Trade Agreement, which would lead to more jobs lost here and more violence against workers in Colombia.
The event will take place on Thursday, September 27th from 6:30p.m.-8:30 p.m. at the St. Mary's University AT&T Center for Information Technology (Going west on Culebra Rd., go past Camino Santa Maria and turn right on Memorial St).
Be part of a movement to change trade policy -- your attendance is critical to send a message to Congress that we can't continue the same failed NAFTA-style trade policies that have destroyed thousands of good-paying jobs, increased the exploitation of workers, and led to increased poverty and inequality. See the recent article in the San Antonio Current on free trade and Colombia, and Saturday's column by Carlos Guerra in the San Antonio Express-News.
For more information on the event, see below or call me at 469-835-6211.
In solidarity,
--Marc Jacobson, Director
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There are 32 organizations co-sponsoring the forum including Fuerza Unida, San Antonio Labor Council for Latin American Advancement, San Antonio Area Progressive Action Coalition, Esperanza Center, San Antonio Peace Center, Alamo Group of the Sierra Club, San Antonio Labor Council, United Students Against Sweatshops -- Southwest Region, and City Councilwoman Lourdes Galvan.
Speakers at the event will include:
Texas AFL-CIO President
You are invited to join us at our Community Forum -- "Murder, Plunder and Corporate Profit: The Trojan Horse of Free Trade in Colombia," to be held this Thursday, September 27th.
Join us to learn about the ongoing murders of union leaders and exploitation of workers and rural communities across Colombia. Attend to show your opposition to the Colombia Free Trade Agreement, which would lead to more jobs lost here and more violence against workers in Colombia.
The event will take place on Thursday, September 27th from 6:30p.m.-8:30 p.m. at the St. Mary's University AT&T Center for Information Technology (Going west on Culebra Rd., go past Camino Santa Maria and turn right on Memorial St).
Be part of a movement to change trade policy -- your attendance is critical to send a message to Congress that we can't continue the same failed NAFTA-style trade policies that have destroyed thousands of good-paying jobs, increased the exploitation of workers, and led to increased poverty and inequality. See the recent article in the San Antonio Current on free trade and Colombia, and Saturday's column by Carlos Guerra in the San Antonio Express-News.
For more information on the event, see below or call me at 469-835-6211.
In solidarity,
--Marc Jacobson, Director
______________________
There are 32 organizations co-sponsoring the forum including Fuerza Unida, San Antonio Labor Council for Latin American Advancement, San Antonio Area Progressive Action Coalition, Esperanza Center, San Antonio Peace Center, Alamo Group of the Sierra Club, San Antonio Labor Council, United Students Against Sweatshops -- Southwest Region, and City Councilwoman Lourdes Galvan.
Speakers at the event will include:
- Martha Ojeda, Executive Director of the Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras, a tri-national organization that supports the efforts of maquiladora workers to organize for better pay and working conditions
- Natalia Cardona, Senior Associate for the Latin American and Caribbean Peacebuilding Program of the American Friends Service Committee; Ms. Cardona has traveled across Colombia investigating the plight of marginalized and exploited Indigenous and Afro-Colombian communities
- Dan Kovalik, an attorney with the United Steelworkers who is their lead counsel in international lawsuits alleging the involvement of Drummond Ltd, Coca-Cola Company, and Occidental Petroleum in the murder of Colombian union leaders Gerardo Cajamarca, former Colombian city council member and human rights investigator with SINALTRAINAL (Colombian union representing Coca-Cola and NESTLE workers) who was forced to take asylum in the United States in 2004 because of repeated death threats
- President of the San Antonio, Labor Council for Latin American Advancement, Founder "Organizer of the Cesar E. Chavez March for Justice Jaime Martinez
- Becky Moeller, President of the Texas AFL-CIO
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