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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Albertus;"><font size="4">The Militant Labor
Forum Presents:</font> <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 26pt; font-family: "Albertus Extra Bold";"><font size="6">The
Food Crisis: </font></span></font><br><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 26pt; font-family: "Albertus Extra Bold";"></span></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 26pt; font-family: "Albertus Extra Bold";"><font size="6">Profit System Is to Blame</font></span></font><br><p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> <font size="2"><br></font></span></font></p><p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><font size="2">Rising
prices of food and other basic necessities have pushed down working people’s
standard of living in much of the world. Global food prices have risen 83 percent
over the last three years, according to the World Bank estimates. Prices of
basic staples such as corn, rice, and wheat have shot up by more than double
within a one-year span. In many countries workers have responded with strikes
and other actions.</font><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><div style="text-align: left;">
</div><p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;" class="MsoBodyText3"><font size="2"><span style=""> </span>In Haiti,
protests spread across the country in early April against high prices and the
UN occupation force there. At least 10,000 workers demonstrated April 5 in
Ljubljana, Slovenia, to demand higher wages. On April 8 workers in Burkina Faso
began a two-day general strike to demand a 25 percent pay raise for
public-sector workers and a lowering of food and fuel taxes. Many workers
joined a general strike in Egypt where average household expenses rose 50
percent in the last four months. Demands included relief from high prices,
housing aid, and an end to police torture. </font></p><div style="text-align: left;">
</div><p style="text-align: left;" class="MsoBodyText3"><font size="2"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> Workers in the
advanced capitalist countries feel squeezed by higher prices but the crisis is
especially sharp in the semicolonial world. This inequality is not the result
of nature. For more than 100 years the centers of world finance capital—the
United States, the Western European powers, Japan, Australia, and New
Zealand—have dominated economic life in Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the
Pacific. Their policies guarantee that those nations lag further and further
behind in agricultural and industrial production.</span></font><i><font size="2"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> <br></span></font></i></p><p style="text-align: left;" class="MsoBodyText3"><i><font size="2"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br></span></font></i></p><p style="text-align: left;" class="MsoBodyText3"><i><font size="2"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Come join a discussion on
what the roots of this crisis are and what demands working people can put
forward to protect ourselves from the growing crisis.</span></font></i></p><p style="text-align: left;" class="MsoBodyText3"><i><font size="2"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br></span></font></i></p><span style="font-size: 26pt; font-family: "Albertus Medium";" lang="ES-CO">Saturday, April 26<br></span><span style=""></span><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Albertus Medium";" lang="ES-CO">Program 7:30
pm </span><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Albertus Medium";" lang="CS">• </span><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Albertus Medium";" lang="ES-CO"><span style=""> </span>Dinner 6:30<o:p></o:p></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Albertus Medium";" lang="ES-CO">Militant Labor Forum Hall <br>
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Bennington Street, 2nd floor, East Boston<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: "Albertus Medium";">617-569-9169
o email: <a href="mailto:swpboston@verizon.net"><span style="" lang="ES-CO">bostonmlf@yahoo.com</span></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Albertus Medium";">Donation: Program $5, Dinner $5 • Traducción en español <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Albertus Medium";">Visit <b>themilitant.com</b> and <b>pathfinderpress.com</b>
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Maverick Station, bus or walk 5 blocks down Meridian to Bennington at Liberty
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