Reply #21: Community Alliance for Global Justice Seattle events 2/13 and 2/23

[eridani]

Community Alliance for Global Justice invites you to...

Feb 13 CAGJ Organizing Meeting

Feb 23 Activist Briefing on the US-Korea Free Trade Agreement by Sahng-nok-soo, a Seattle-based organization of Koreans and Korean Americans dedicated to the global fight for social and economic justice.

See below for more information!

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Fair Trade - Local Sustainable Agriculture Worker Rights - Immigrant Rights
What are the Connections?

Join CAGJ for an Organizing Meeting
Tuesday Feb. 13, 6:30 - 8:30pm
CAGJ Office - 606 Maynard Ave. S, Room 252, in the Int'l District
Buses: 1, 7, 14, 36, 42, & 49 , and lots of street parking
Snacks will be served

In 2006 CAGJ launched the Strengthening Local Economies Everywhere campaign. To further this campaign in 2007, CAGJ will host an event this summer, probably a dinner, whose goal is to make connections between fair trade and local sustainable agriculture issues, including the connections to worker and immigrant rights. Please come to the first Organizing Meeting to share your ideas and get involved!

Questions? call Heather Day at 206.724.2243
Can't come, but want to be involved? email Anna Brandt
<deathorgloryrb {at} hotmail.com>
Hope to see you there!

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SEATTLE ACTIVIST BRIEFING:

FAIR TRADE AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN KOREA

** Updates on the US-Korea FTA, trade union repression, and the struggle of Pyeongtaek farmers **

Friday, Feb. 23rd, 6:00 - 8:30pm
Nihonmachi Terrace, 651 S. Main St., International District
On-street parking FREE after 6pm
RSVP to jungharris{at} gmail.com

As the US and South Korea continue to negotiate the largest free trade agreement since NAFTA, Korean workers and farmers have continued to oppose the FTA talks, despite intense government repression. But the people cannot be silenced. Korean movement organizations and US-based Korean American organizations have joined forces with groups fighting the US-Colombia and US-Peru FTAs, creating a united front for fair trade. Please join us to hear the latest about this exciting movement.

- DOWN, DOWN, FTA!
Video from the 3rd round of US-Korea FTA talks in Seattle

- EYEWITNESS REPORTBACK:
Learn what Seattle delegates to Korea saw and heard in November