'저는 그들의 땅을 지키기 위하여 싸웠던 인디안들의 이야기를 기억합니다. 백인들이 그들의 신성한 숲에 도로를 만들기 위하여 나무들을 잘랐습니다. 매일밤 인디안들이 나가서 백인들이 만든 그 길을 해체하면 그 다음 날 백인들이 와서 도로를 다시 짓곤 했습니다. 한동안 그 것이 반복되었습니다. 그러던 어느날, 숲에서 가장 큰 나무가 백인들이 일할 동안 그들 머리 위로 떨어져 말과 마차들을 파괴하고 그들 중 몇몇을 죽였습니다. 그러자 백인들은 떠났고 결코 다시 오지 않았습니다….' (브루스 개그논)





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Sunday, February 13, 2011

Text Fwd: 2/27 SF Educational Conference "KORUS Another NAFTA? US KORUS Free Trade Agreement & The Korean Peninsula

* Text fwd from Steve Zeltzer on Feb. 12, 2011

SF Educational Conference "KORUS Another NAFTA?
US KORUS Free Trade Agreement & The Korean Peninsula
Sunday February 27, 2011 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM
University Of San Francisco McClaren Hall
Fulton St & Clayton St. San Francisco
Free

The Korea-US KORUS will be the largest free trade agreement in the US since NAFTA. This conference will look at the affect of NAFTA in the US and Mexico and the proposed KORUS trade agreement between the United States and Korea. How will the economic rules of this new agreement affect the conditions for farmers and workers are in Korea and what they will be under this free trade agreement will be outlined. It will also look at the movement for democratic communication rights and media in Korea under the present administration. Education, healthcare, food and many other areas will be radically changed under this agreement and this will be outlined at this educational conference. Finally the conference will also look at the growing militarization of the Korean peninsula, why this is taking place and what this means for the people of Korea and the United States. This will be the first educational conference in the United States on this important proposed agreement.

Speakers-
Christine Ahn, Korea Policy Center
Tim Robertson, California Fair Trade Coalition
Dorothy Kidd, Professor USF Media Studies
Ian Fletcher, Economist
Clarence Thomas, ILWU Local 10 former Secretary Treasurer
Paul Liem, Korea Policy Expert
Cindy Sheehan, Anti-War and Human Rights Activist
George Wright, AFT 1492 Professor Skyline College UPWA* invited
Pablo Rodriquez, AFT 2121 Professor
Korea Mediact, Representative streamed live from Korea

Videos and Music
Will be streamed on the web live at www.labortech.net

Sponsored by San Francisco Labor Council, California Fair Trade Coalition, United Public Workers For Action
For information lvpsf@igc.org (415)867-0628 or (415)987-4870
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