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Labor Standards, and Economic Integration in the Americas |
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Mural
detail: "Pan-American Unity" at the City College of San
Francisco, Diego Rivera
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With
the Spring 2003 series "Development, Labor Standards, and
Economic Integration in the Americas," CLAS again aims to
generate dialogue around the role of labor standards in the context
of development and economic integration throughout the Americas
and further the ongoing debate over trade and the global economy.
Funding provided by the Ford Foundation.
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William
Mendoza Gomez
"Stopping
the Coca-Cola Murders: Meet Union Leaders on the Front Lines of the World’s
Deadliest Labor Struggle"
William Mendoza Gomez is a prominent human rights advocate and president
of the Coca-Cola workers’ union in Barrancabermeja, Colombia. Since
1994, eight workers and union activists from Coca-Cola plants in Colombia
have been murdered by anti-union paramilitary groups. Mendoza, and colleague,
Hector Rivera, will speak about their efforts to win justice for workers
in one of the world’s most turbulent and dangerous regions.
Sponsored
by: UC Berkeley Labor Center, UC Berkeley Center for Latin
American Studies, Global Exchange, Corp Watch, Sweatshop
Watch, Amazon Watch, Students Organizing for Justice in
the Americas, Colombia Support Network and Plumbers and
Fitters Local 393
Thursday,
April 10, 7:00 p.m.
Institute of Industrial Relations, 2521 Channing Way
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Jorge
Arrate
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Ambassador
Jorge Arrate
The
Honorable Jorge Arrate is the Ambassador of Chile to Argentina.
He was formerly Minister of Mines and Economic Advisor
to President Allende, as well as Minister of Education,
Minister of Labor and Social Security, and Minister Secretary-General
of the Government of Chile.
Ambassador Arrate's visit has been postponed
until the spring of 2004.
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Charlie
Kernaghan
“Ending the Race to the Bottom: The Struggle for Workers' Rights in the
Global Economy”
Charlie
Kernaghan is Executive Director of the National Labor Committee,
an independent human rights organization. He is prominent
in the labor movement for drawing attention to and helping
correct the overseas labor practices of U.S. corporations.
The New York Times calls him “the labor movement’s mouse
that roared.”
Friday,
April 25, 4:00 p.m.
Room 575, McCone Hall (map)
Photos
of the event
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