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The Sandinistas and Nicaragua

Longtime Bay Area activists will report on their recent fact-finding and solidarity delegation to Nicaragua. They met and spoke with social movement leaders, labor activists, political analysts, the founder of an industrial collective, health and maternity clinic medical workers, cooperative farmers, NGO representatives and others.

Two of the delegates, George Friemoth and Carlos Porrota, will report on their return visit to a remote rural community where, twenty years ago at the height of the Contra War, they went as solidarity workers to construct houses.

The presentation will be held at two locations on two different dates. On Thursday, July 17 it will be at Dance Palace, 503 B Street, Point Reyes Station, at 7:30 PM; and on Saturday, July 19, at the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists, 1924 Cedar Street at Bonita, Berkeley, at 6:30 PM. The event is sponsored by the Task Force on the Americas and Nicaragua Center for Community Action. For more information please call 415/924-3227, e-mail mitf@igc.org.

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Undocumented Students Speak Out

Come hear the immigration reform vision from Marin students and residents most affected by antiquated and unfair immigration laws.

Twenty undocumented Marin college and high school students came together to discuss how they can change their situation. After reading the D.R.E.A.M. Act (Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act), they responded, “Whose Dream is it Anyway!” Thus began their One Dream 2009 campaign.

They have put together their own proposal and are asking documented individuals to carry the cause for them in public as they work behind the scenes.

On inauguration day 2009, with a petition signed by millions of supporters from across the nation, they will ask the incoming president “to free us from a new form of slavery and recognize immigrants as human beings not illegal aliens. In our human advancement, we must be able to move beyond identifying people through a green card, a social security number, or an alien number to the simple yet profound acknowledgment of humanity that exists in all of us.”

Learn how the students are educating their communities and the general public on Friday, August 1, 7:30 PM at the First United Methodist Church, 9 Ross Valley Drive (at Fourth Street), San Rafael. This event is sponsored by the Task Force on the Americas. A $5-10 donation is requested. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. For more information please call 415/924-3227, email mitf@igc.org.

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Meet Rea Dol
Founder & Director, SOPUDEP School, Haiti

Friday, July 25, Noon

For a special fundraiser LUNCHEON

At the home of Faye and Lou Hinze
18 Seminole Avenue · Corte Madera

Seating is limited.

RSVP Faye Hinze, 415-924-7690

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Updated July 16, 2008