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DESCRIPTION:Noche de Cultura Latinoamericana \nTo benefit the legal defense of 
 Compañero Victor Toro\n \n*** Music...tamales...theater...and a 
 transcontinental conversation with Victor ***\n \nWHEN: Friday, September 
 28, 2007 at 7:00 p.m.\n \nWHERE: 522 Valencia St. (at 16th), San Francisco 
 - 2nd floor (near 16th & Mission BART)\n \nADMISSION: $5.00\n \nMany people 
 in this area got to know Victor when we were organizing for the May Day 
 march and rally in San Francisco. But Victor Toro has a long history as an 
 activist. In his native Chile he was organizing poor and working people 
 since the 1960s. After the fascist General Pinochet seized power in a 
 US-backed coup on Sept. 11, 1973, many thousands were murdered or 
 disappeared by the new regime. Victor and his wife Nieves were jailed and 
 tortured as political prisoners.  In 1984 they came to the United States 
 and settled in New York City, founding La Peña del Bronx, a cultural and 
 political community center serving immigrants and homeless people in the 
 South Bronx.\n \nThis past July, Victor Toro was returning to New York from 
 California on an Amtrak train when ICE immigration agents raided the train, 
 profiled certain passengers as immigrants, and pulled 35 people off the 
 train, carting them off to jail. Toro was one of them. Released on bail, he 
 faces the threat of deportation back to Chile, where elements of the 
 Pinochet-era death squads are still out there. He has filed a request for 
 political asylum in the U.S.\n \nYou are cordially invited to an evening of 
 tamales, theater, solidarity and song for Victor Toro - Friday 9/28 at 522 
 Valencia.\n \nHonoring Victor Toro\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/09/28/18450309.php
SUMMARY:Noche de Cultura Latinoamericana - Fundraiser for Victor Toro's Legal Defense
LOCATION:522 Valencia St., 3rd floor
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/09/28/18450309.php
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