WHEN:
7:00 pm,
Wednesday, October 1 , 2008
WHERE: Legacy Books & Cafe, 5249 Delmar (near Union), St. Louis MO 63108
A panel discussion will include:
• Jim Hamilton, /The Organizer/EL Organizador/ newspaper [moderator]
• Yvette Anyango, IBEW Local 1, Coalition of Black Trade Unionists
• Al Rojas, /Frente de Mexicanos en el Exterior/
As an African-American trade unionist, Yvette Anyango will explain the need for unity in face of attempts by the media and bosses to divide workers, immigrants, and people of color.
The keynote speaker will be Al Rojas, a retired farm worker organizer from Sacramento, California. He will recount his early experience in the California broccoli fields and how he worked with Cesar Chavez as a union organizer.
Brother Rojas will describe the ongoing fight to fully legalize immigrant workers in the US. He will explain how the NAFTA trade treaty hurts both Mexicans and Americans and cover the recent campaign of the /Frente de Mexicanos en el Exterior/ to defend the right of poor Mexicans to not be forced to emigrate to the US to feed their families.
Al will also talk about the growing resistance of Mexicans to election fraud and attacks on Mexico’s national health care system and fight against privatization of its nationalized oil company. He will discuss the growing number of deaths of farm workers from heat overload and bad working conditions.
Rojas will explain his support for the Cynthia McKinney-Rosa Clemente “Power to the People” 2008 Presidential ticket which will be on the Green Party ballot in Illinois.
Sponsored by Gateway Green Alliance and Universal African Peoples Organization. For more information call 314-727-8554 or visit:
www.gateway-greens.org
