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AviUpcoming events: Guatemala, Colombia, and more
The next few weeks are packed with exciting Latin-America-related events. Here's information about just a few of them:
Friday, March 13, 6 pm. Family and Children Service of Greater Lynn, Inc.111 North Common St., Lynn
Sipakapa No Se Vende/Sipakapa Is Not for Sale (2005, 55 min.) GUATEMALA
Director: Álvaro Revenga
In Spanish and Sipakapense with English subtitles.The steep environmental and human costs of gold mining lead Maya communities in the Sipakapa municipality of Guatemala to exercise their right to be consulted about the expansion of mining operations into their area. The outcome of their plebiscite is a resounding 'No!" to mining.
Friday, March 20, 6 pm. Local 201, 112 Exchange St., Lynn.
Colombian Senator Jorge Robledo, from the progressive Polo Democrático political party, will speak (in Spanish with simultaneous translation). Sen. Robledo has been a passionate voice in the Colombian senate in support of labor, environmental, indigenous, and Afro-Colombian movements, and in particular in solidarity with people in resistance against multinational mines. Sponsored by Colombia Vive and the North Shore Labor Council.
Monday, April 6, 9 am-12 pm. Campus Center Ballroom, UMass Boston. Guatemalan campesina leader, indigenous rights activist and Nobel Prize winner
Rigoberta Menchu-Tum will speak.
RSVP to Gissell Abreu-Rodriguez by phone at 617.287.7132 or email at gissell.abreu@umb.edu Sponsored by The Office of the Chancellor and the Latino Studies Program at the University of Massachusetts Boston, and The Organization Maya Kiché of New Bedford.Avi
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