<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><strong>HEAR FROM AND DIALOGUE WITH A LEADER OF ONE OF THE TWO LARGEST COLOMBIAN COAL MINER'S UNIONS</strong></div>
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<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><strong>Presentation with Translation, Refreshments, Discussion</strong></div>
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<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><strong>7:00 pm Thursday November 4, 2010</strong></div>
<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><strong>Encuentro 5, 33 Harrison Ave., 5th floor, Chinatown</strong></div>
<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><strong>(a few blocks from the Orange Line Chinatown stop</strong></div>
<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><strong>or the Green Line Boylston stop)</strong></div>
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<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"><strong>Jose Brito--former Sintracarbon leader, member of the International Federation of Chemical, Eneergy, Mine and General </strong></div>
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<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"><strong>Jose Brito formerly worked at and represented workers at the Cerrijon mine, and Raul Sosa continues to represent workers at the Drummond mine. Raul is in the U.S., but is not able to particfipate in the Massachusetts portion of this speaking tour. The program, however, will include information about the Drummond mine and workers. The thousands of workers in these two unions and the two giant surface strip-nmines that they work, the Drummond and Cerrejon mines, produce 90% of Colombian coal and 90% of Colombian coal exports. The Mass. Salem and Somerset electrical generating plants geet much of their coal from these two mines, as do many other generating stations in the U.S.</strong></div>
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<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"><strong>Colombia is the largest recipient of U.S. military aid in the hemisphere, and the country with the highest levels of official and paramilitary violence, including forced displacemenet, killings of journalists, trade unionists and human rights activists. During most of the period of this high level of U.S. military aid, Colombia had the highest per-capita level of unon leader assassinatons in the world, with several thousand assassinated, including several leaders from the Drummond mine.</strong></div>
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<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"><strong>A U.S. network supports these unions and a number of villages and towns surrounding these two mines. The surrounding communities have been severely damaged in every imaginable way by these mines. A number of folks from Eastern Massachusetts are involved in this network.</strong></div>
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<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"><strong>Sponsored by: Massachusetts Global Action, the MLK Bolivarian Circle of Boston, Alliance for Democracy</strong></div>
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