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Highlights of the protest included a major press conference and a die-in organized by the Student Trade Justice Campaign.  Speakers at the press conference included:

  • Robert Baugh, Executive Director, Industrial Union Council, AFL-CIOR1752956343
  • Deborah Schneider, Change to Win and Director, SEIU Global Organizing Partnerships
  • Nicole Lee, Executive Director, TransAfrica Forum
  • John Jairo Garces, Un Día de Esperanza, Colombian exile whose father was killed by paramilitaries
  • Gerardo Cajamarca, Colombian City Councilman in Exile, SINALTAINAL, member of the Steelworkers Global Justice Team
  • Marino Cordoba, Association of Internally Displaced Afro-Colombians - USA, AFRODES-USA
  • Heather Hanson, Executive Director, U.S. Office on Colombia
  • Christina Lizzi, Student Trade Justice Campaign, George Washington University

*Press Release available here.

Check out Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch blog for a report on the protest (Part 1 here and Part 2 here).  You can see tons of pictures from the protest here and here.

Here is a news round-up of coverage of the protest:
ENGLISH
National Public Radio
McClatchy Newspapers
Miami Herald
Agence France Presse
Reuters

SPANISH
CNN Spanish
Colombia Indymedia
EFE Wire
El Tiempo
El Pais
El Espectador

And here is one more short video:

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