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PILSA Annual Student Action Campaign
Packing the Courts: Is it a Threat to Justice?
Wednesday October 8
6pm
Room 206
Speakers Include:
-Jeff Burman, Chief Counsel to Sen. Charles Schumer
-Marianne Lado, NY Lawyers for the Public Interest
-Wendy Weiser, NOW Legal Defense Fund
+ showing of the video, On the Record
This fall, students and activists across the country will unite and mobilize as part of Student Action Campaign 2003. Join your fellow progressive students on October 8 to prevent President Bush from packing our Federal Courts with ultraconservative judges.
Questions? Contact cardozopilsa@yahoo.com
Stop Killer Cola Murders in Colombia
Over a HUNDRED trade unionists have been murdered in Colombia this past year!
Activists charge corporations like Coca-Cola and Drummond Coal with complicity.
Can the law hold corporations accountable? How can we stop the killing?
Juan Aguas Romero, trade union activist at Drummond Coal Company
Dan Kovalik, United Steelworkers of America, co-counsel in alien torts litigation
Dean Hubbard, International Commission for Labor Rights, human rights monitor
Ray Rogers, Director of the Campaign to Stop Killer Coke/Corporate Campaign, Inc.
Tuesday, October 21st, 6 p.m.
Cardozo School of Law
55 Fifth Avenue, room 206
At 3:30 p.m. a fundraising reception for the victims’ families will be hosted by Kennedy, Schwartz & Cure, P.C. and Amalgamated Lithographers, Local One, 113 University Place, 4th floor. Admission: or more.
Please RSVP Anthia by Oct. 17: (212) 358-1500
For more information: (917) 674-0310 or (212) 979-8320; www.killercoke.org and www.laborrights.org
Sponsors: Labor and Employment Committee/National Lawyers Guild-NYC, Public Interest Law Students Association at Cardozo, Campaign to Stop Killer Coke, Corporate Campaign, Inc.
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