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10/27/03

HUMAN-RIGHTS ACTIVIST TO SPEAK AT SLU ABOUT FREE TRADE

CANTON – Xiomara Castro, director of the California Human Rights Program for 
the organization Global Exchange, will give a talk on the Free Trade Area of 
the Americas (FTAA) on Wednesday, October 29, at 8 p.m. in Bloomer Auditorium, 
Brown Hall, at St. Lawrence University. It is open to the public, free of 
charge.
	A Salvadoran-American, Castro has been involved in the social change 
movement from a very young age, initially working to end U.S. military 
intervention in El Salvador, and later working for immigrant and farmworkers' 
rights in the U.S.  Her current work focuses on issues of free trade, 
immigration, militarization and social and environmental justice. Castro's 
presentation at St. Lawrence will focus on how the FTAA will affect Latin 
American countries and their populations.
	For more information, contact Matt Gaines, a senior with the Caribbean 
and Latin American Studies (CLAS) Student Organization, at 315-229-7184.

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