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style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(153, 51, 0); font-weight: bold;">On
Wednesday, October 1, <br>
</span></font></b>
<div align="left"><b><font color="#993300" face="Arial" size="5"><span
style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(153, 51, 0); font-weight: bold;">Come
hear Colombian and Nicaraguan Trade Union Leaders Oscar Gustavo Penagos
Ortiz and Fredy Franco Speak in
Boston!</span></font></b><br>
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style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(153, 51, 0); font-weight: bold;"></span></font></b></div>
<b><font color="#993300" face="Arial" size="5"><span
style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(153, 51, 0); font-weight: bold;"></span></font></b><b><font
color="#993300" face="Arial" size="5"><span
style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(153, 51, 0); font-weight: bold;">
- <font size="4">Organized by U.S.-Cuba Labor Exchange<br>
- Hosted locally by USW 8751 Boston School Bus Drivers, International
Action
Center and the Women's Fightback Network</font></span></font></b><b><font
face="Arial" size="4"><span
style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;"><span
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<big><b>Tour Stops Include:<br>
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</b></big></span></font><b><font color="#993300" face="Arial" size="5"><span
style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(153, 51, 0); font-weight: bold;">12:30
PM - Boston City Hall Piemonte Room - Reception hosted by City
Councilor Chuck Turner<br>
<br>
5:00 PM - Government Center - Witness for Justice: Call for a
Moratorium on ICE raids - Immigrants Rights </span></font></b><small><small><font
color="#993300" face="Arial" size="5"><small><small><span
style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(153, 51, 0); font-weight: bold;"></span></small></small></font></small></small><big><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Sponsored by </font><font
color="black" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><big><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: black;">
Massachusetts
Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice and numerous immigrant rights
groups</span></big></font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
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style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(153, 51, 0); font-weight: bold;"><br>
7:00
PM - Forum/Discussion - Global Economic Crisis demands Global Worker
Solidarity!<br>
<small>Action Center - 284 Amory St, JP (in the Brewery Complex, near
Stonybrook on Orange Line)</small></span></font></b><small><small><small><font
color="#993300" face="Arial" size="5"><small><small><small><span
style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(153, 51, 0); font-weight: bold;"></span></small></small></small></font></small></small><br>
</small><font face="Arial" size="4"><span
style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Arial;">Hear about the workers
struggles in Colombia and Nicaragua!<br>
Discuss the Economic Crisis and how workers and oppressed people can
unite and fight back!<br>
Bail out the People, not the Banks!<br>
Demand an Economic State of Emergency! - No Foreclosures, No Utility
Shutoffs! Roll Back Food and Fuel Prices!</span></font><br>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">-- Sponsored by Economic
State of Emergency Campaign of the Women's Fightback Network,
International Action Center, and the youthgroup F.I.S.T. (Fight
Imperialism! Stand Together!)<br>
<br>
<b>Biographical information:<br>
<br>
*OSCAR GUSTAVO PENAGOS ORTIZ.*<br>
*Colombia SINTRATELEFONO*S *CUT*<br>
</b><br>
Lawyer and Sociologist, with experience in the popular and cultural
movement. Union director since 1999. Was elected to integrate the
Executive Committee of the Central Worker Union, subdirective Bogota
Cundinamarca in the Telecommunications Business of Bogota
SINTRATELEFONOS in May of 2008 . Has participated in the EDUARDO UMANA
MENDOZA Brigade, attending to people who have had their human rights
violated and participated in the defense of persons with violated
rights in massive detentions.<br>
<br>
Abogado y Sociólogo. con esperiencia en el movimiento popular y
cultural. dirigente sindical desde 1999. De el Sindicato de la Empresa
de Telecomunicaciones de Bogotá SINTRATELEFONOS en Mayo de 2008 fuí
electo para integrar el Comité Ejecutivo de la Central Unitaria de
Trabajadore CUT} Sub directiva Bogotá Cundinamarca. He participado en
la Brigada EDUARDO UMAÑA MENDOZA Atendiendo a las personas victivas de
violación de los Derechos Humanos y participado en la defensa de
personas privadas de la libertad en detenciones masiva.<br>
<br>
<b>* FREDY FRANCO*<br>
*Nicaragua FEPDES (</b></font><b><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Federation of Educational
Professionals of the Superior Education of Nicaragua)</font></b><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>*<br>
</b><br>
Fredy Franco; a social scientist and historian and known as the titular
professor of the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua (UNAN-
Managua) since 1990. Representative of the Educational Universitaries
of Nicaragua as General Secretary of the Federation of Educational
Professionals of the Superior Education of Nicaragua. (FEPDES).
Represents the Educational Universitaries before the National Council
of Universities, the National Council of Education, the National
Council of Economic and Social Planning, and before the National Head
of Workers. Fredy writes for the University, Society, and Sandinista
Vision. He is a columnist for the New Diary paper.<br>
<br>
Fredy Franco,* Cientista Social e Historiador Profesor Titular de la
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua (UNAN-Managua) desde el año
1990. Representante de los Docentes Univesitarios de Nicaragua como
Secr etario General de la Federación de Profesionales Docentes de la
Educación Superior de Nicaragua (FEPDES). Representó a los docentes
Universitarios ante el Consejo Nacional de Univesidades (CNU), el
Consejo Nacional de Educación (CNE), el Consejo Nacional de
Planificación Económico y Social (CONPES) y ante el Frente Nacional de
los Trabajadores. Escribe para las Revistas Universidad y Sociedad y
Visión Sandinista, columnista del periódico El Nuevo Diario.<br>
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