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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><I><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Albertus">The Militant Labor Forum Presents: </SPAN></I><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Albertus; FONT-SIZE: 8pt"></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoBodyText align=center><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 24pt"><FONT face=Albertus>Video on <SPAN style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #366388 2px dotted; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; CURSOR: hand" id=lw_1278884002_0 class=yshortcuts>Thomas Sankara</SPAN> <BR></FONT></SPAN></B><FONT face=Albertus><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt">Followed by discussion on the importance</SPAN></B></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoBodyText align=center><FONT face=Albertus><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt">of his revolutionary legacy for today</SPAN></B><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 24pt"><SPAN> </SPAN></SPAN></B></FONT></P>
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<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.3in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN> </SPAN>Thomas Sankara led the revolution that took place in the <SPAN id=lw_1278884002_1 class=yshortcuts>West African country</SPAN> <SPAN id=lw_1278884002_2 class=yshortcuts>Burkina Faso</SPAN> from 1983 to 1987.<SPAN> </SPAN>Sankara, has been described by some as Africa’s Che.<SPAN> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.3in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Under Sankara's leadership, working people established a popular revolutionary government, which started to fight the hunger, illiteracy and economic devastation imposed by imperialist domination. In the collection of speeches and interviews in the book <B><I>Thomas Sankara Speaks</I></B>, Sankara explains how during those years the peasants and workers of Burkina Faso: </FONT></SPAN></P>
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<LI style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">established a popular revolutionary government;</FONT></SPAN>
<LI style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">started to fight the hunger, illiteracy, and economic backwardness imposed by imperialist domination;</FONT></SPAN>
<LI style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">and began to combat the oppression of women inherited from thousands of years of class society.</FONT></SPAN></LI></UL>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoBodyTextIndent><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Their actions set an example not only for the workers and peasants of Africa but for those of the whole world, then and now.<SPAN> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoBodyTextIndent><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Sankara was assassinated October 15, 1987, in a coup carried out by the country’s current president, <SPAN id=lw_1278884002_3 class=yshortcuts>Blaise Compaoré</SPAN>.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt"></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoBodyText align=center><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 22pt"><FONT face=Albertus><SPAN style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #366388 2px dotted; CURSOR: hand" id=lw_1278884002_4 class=yshortcuts>Friday, July 16, 7:30 pm</SPAN> </FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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