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SF Action-End Repression Against Colombian Labor Unionists

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Date:
Friday, October 19, 2012
Time:
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Event Type:
Other
Organizer/Author:
F.X. Martín del Campo
Location Details:
Colombian Consulate
595 Market (near 2nd St.), San Francisco

10/19 SF Action-End Repression Against Colombian Labor Unionists

· 1st six months of 2012 – 15 unionists killed or disappeared, 37 human rights defenders killed, and 33,000 Colombians forced from their land


2011 - 30 unionists killed, several disappeared, more than 500 received death threats

115 unionists have been killed since Juan Manuel Santos became president in 2010

every year 1000 Colombians die from work-related accidents

45% of Colombians live in poverty


Join us in a picket

Friday, Oct. 19

12 noon to 1 p.m.

Colombian Consulate

595 Market (near 2nd St.), San Francisco


sponsor: Labor Council for Latin American Advancement, SF Chapt./AFL-CIO

sflclaa [at] riseup.net

F.X. Martín del Campo
SF/LCLAA - Fredy Tejada Presente!, MORENA en las Calles
Cell (415) 407-7117
email: poderpopular(at)sbcglobal.net
Added to the calendar on Tue, Oct 16, 2012 10:09AM
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