AN EVENING WITH JAMES JORDAN -- National Coordinator for the Alliance for Global Justice's (AGL) Campaign for Labor Rights (CLR)

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AN EVENING WITH JAMES JORDAN -- National Coordinator for the Alliance for Global Justice's (AGL) Campaign for Labor Rights (CLR)

"U.S. Intervention and the Struggle for Labor Rights in Colombia"                     

Monday, July 6, 6:00 PM, Church of the Reconciler,

112 14th Ave. No, Birmingham, AL 35203,

Admission is free; Donations are tax deductible.

Please join the Tuscaloosa chapter of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and Co-Sponsor Birmingham Peace Project (BPP) in welcoming James Jordan, who is traveling from Tuscon, Arizona to speak about the destructive effects of Plan Colombia, Killer Coke, and the campaigns of terror against human rights activists, union members, journalists, and members of the political opposition in Colombia, today.

James has been involved in Latin American solidarity for over twenty years. During the 80's, he was a staff member at the Casa MariaCatholic Worker House and was a volunteer for the Sanctuary Movement, a modern-day underground railroad that helped relocate political refugees from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Colombia who were targeted due to US policies in the region. He was the Emergency Response Coordinator for the Venezuela Solidarity Network before taking his current position as National Coordinator for the Alliance for Global Justice's (AGL) Campaign for Labor Rights (CLR) in August of 2008.

This August, CLR, along with Colombia Action Network (CAN), is leading a delegation to Colombia. James, along with a student from the University of Alabama, is planning on joining the delegation and is hoping to raise money to help cover the travel expenses. The delegation will be hosted by FENSUAGRO, Colombia's largest union of farmers and farm workers. Participants will meet and talk with Colombian farmers, Afro-Colombian refugees, sugar cane workers, cooperative members, families of political prisoners and those who have lost family members or are threatened by war.

Donations from the talk will go to the human rights delegation hosted by the CAN and CLR this summer to Colombia.

For more information about the event or about donating to the CLR/CAN delegation, please contact Laura Langley at lela...@ua.eduor #205-999-1318.