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Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Reminder: Orlando Acosta tonight at Salem State
WORKERS AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN COLOMBIA AND HOW "WE" FIT INTO THE BIG PICTURE
Veterans Hall (Campus Center)
Tuesday, 1/29/08 @ 7PM
-Drummond, a U.S. coal mining company based in Birmingham, Alabama, has been charged with complicity in the murders of three leaders of a labor union, Victor Orcasita, Valmore Locarno, and Gustavo Soler. This case is currently being heard in U.S. courts.
- We use Drummond coal for energy here in the Salem power plant.
- Come and Discuss how using this coal for energy involves us in a web of Human Rights Violations occurring now in northern Colombia.
Guest Speakers
Dr. Avi Chomsky (History Dept, SSC)
and
Orlando Acosta (Union leader at Drummond Mine Colombia)
-Acosta is visiting the U.S. as a guest of the AFL-CIO Solidarity Center. He has been meeting with U.S. mine unions (the UMWA) to talk about building international solidarity.
Organized by SGA (Governmental Relations Committee)
WORKERS AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN COLOMBIA AND HOW "WE" FIT INTO THE BIG PICTURE
Veterans Hall (Campus Center)
Tuesday, 1/29/08 @ 7PM
-Drummond, a U.S. coal mining company based in Birmingham, Alabama, has been charged with complicity in the murders of three leaders of a labor union, Victor Orcasita, Valmore Locarno, and Gustavo Soler. This case is currently being heard in U.S. courts.
- We use Drummond coal for energy here in the Salem power plant.
- Come and Discuss how using this coal for energy involves us in a web of Human Rights Violations occurring now in northern Colombia.
Guest Speakers
Dr. Avi Chomsky (History Dept, SSC)
and
Orlando Acosta (Union leader at Drummond Mine Colombia)
-Acosta is visiting the U.S. as a guest of the AFL-CIO Solidarity Center. He has been meeting with U.S. mine unions (the UMWA) to talk about building international solidarity.
Organized by SGA (Governmental Relations Committee)
For more details contact Avi Chomsky at achomsky@salemstate.edu
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