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Monday, November 24, 2008
Colombian Union Leaders Speak in Chinatown, Tues. 11/25/08
(for more info, email Avi Chomsky)
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Coal provides almost 50% of the electricity produced in the United States. Much of that coal—including what's burned at the Salem and Brayton Point plants in Massachusetts—comes from two giant, multinational mines in Colombia.
In Colombia, some of the most powerless people-indigenous people with no resources, no electricity, no water-and some of the most vulnerable- unions in a country with the highest rates of assassination and repression against union activists in the world-are taking on some of the most powerful multinationals. We have a lot to learn from their example.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25
6:00 pm-Meet the speakers, network
6:45 pm-Hear from, dialogue with the speakers
ENCUENTRO 5, 33 HARRISON ST., 5th FL.
CHINATOWN, BOSTON, MA
Estevinson Avila, president of the Sintramienergética union which unites workers from the Drummond-owned and operated mine of La Loma, has been pursued by paramilitaries because of his involvement in the union.
Jesús Brochero is a top leader of Sintracarbón, the National Union of Coal Industry Workers which represents employees of the multinational-owned Cerrejón Mine in Colombia.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
For more information contact rkrushnic@gmail.com or achomsky@salemstate.edu.
Sponsored by Mass Global Action, Colombia Vive, Jobs With Justice, the MLK Bolivarian Circle of Boston, United For A Fair Economy
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THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE COAL
COLOMBIAN UNION LEADERS
SPEAK AT ENCUENTRO 5, CHINATOWN
COLOMBIAN UNION LEADERS
SPEAK AT ENCUENTRO 5, CHINATOWN
Coal provides almost 50% of the electricity produced in the United States. Much of that coal—including what's burned at the Salem and Brayton Point plants in Massachusetts—comes from two giant, multinational mines in Colombia.
In Colombia, some of the most powerless people-indigenous people with no resources, no electricity, no water-and some of the most vulnerable- unions in a country with the highest rates of assassination and repression against union activists in the world-are taking on some of the most powerful multinationals. We have a lot to learn from their example.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25
6:00 pm-Meet the speakers, network
6:45 pm-Hear from, dialogue with the speakers
ENCUENTRO 5, 33 HARRISON ST., 5th FL.
CHINATOWN, BOSTON, MA
Estevinson Avila, president of the Sintramienergética union which unites workers from the Drummond-owned and operated mine of La Loma, has been pursued by paramilitaries because of his involvement in the union.
Jesús Brochero is a top leader of Sintracarbón, the National Union of Coal Industry Workers which represents employees of the multinational-owned Cerrejón Mine in Colombia.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
For more information contact rkrushnic@gmail.com or achomsky@salemstate.edu.
Sponsored by Mass Global Action, Colombia Vive, Jobs With Justice, the MLK Bolivarian Circle of Boston, United For A Fair Economy
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