October 7, 2009

International Week of Action: Drop NAFTA and CAFTA - Bay Area event

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Drop NAFTA and CAFTA, Destroying Land, Livelihoods and Liberty!

NAFTA(North American Free Trade Agreement – U.S., Canada and Mexico) andCAFTA (Central American Free Trade Agreement) have had devastatingeffects -destroying the livelihoods of people in Mexico and CentralAmerica, displacing them off their lands, poisoning their environmentand forcing them into peonage working in maquilas, as well asdestroying family-supporting jobs in the United States.

PresidentBarack Obama is scheduled to visit San Francisco . Let’s send him amessage to carry out his campaign pledge of hope in renegotiating NAFTAand CAFTA.

Thursday, October 15
5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Union Square , San Francisco
(Powell St. , between Geary and Post)
Stop NAFTA/CAFTA Coalition

Formore info, contact the Bay Area Committee in Solidarity with the Peopleof El Salvador: 415-503-0789, [email protected]

sign up on the facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=181367435294

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