Free Trade and Immigration

Push and Pull: Free Trade and Immigration Speaking Event
Mon, Apr 16, 7:00 pm
New College Cultural Center
766 Valencia at 19th St, in the Mission District, San Francisco
Push and Pull: Free Trade and Immigration Speaking Tour with Juan Manuel Sandoval and David Bacon

http://www.globalexchange.org/getInvolved/speakers/schedule.html

Juan Manuel Sandoval is a leading social activist and academic from Mexico City who holds a Ph.D. in
Anthropology from UCLA. He is General Coordinator of the Permanent Seminar on Chicano and Border Studies in Mexico City, a member of the Coordinating Committee of the Mexican Action Network on Free Trade, and member of the Board of Directors of the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (USA).

David Bacon is a writer and photojournalist on issues of labor, immigration and international trade. On the tour, he will share analysis and photos from his recently published photo-documentary books, The Children of NAFTA and Communities Without Borders, to highlight the realities of immigrants here in the United States and of Mexicans still living in Mexico.

For twenty years, Bacon was a labor organizer for unions with a large percentage of immigrant workers in their membership. Those experiences give him a unique insight into changing conditions in the workforce, the impact of the global economy on migration, and how these factors influence workers rights. Bacon was chair of the board of the Northern California Coalition for Immigrant Rights, and helped organize the Labor Immigrant Organizers Network and the Santa Clara Center for Occupational Safety and Health.

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