Oregon Opposition to U.S. - Peru Free Trade Agreement

Press Conference in front of the Portland office of Oregon Representative Earl Blumenauer.
Speakers include Ronal Huaje Wampuch, a Peruvian exchange student who lost family and community members in a massacre of indigenous protesters resisting implementation of the U.S. - Peru Free Trade Agreement; Arthur Stamoulis, director of Oregon Fair Trade Campaign; and Jose Angel Pena Nivia, a representative of Colombia's General Confederation of Work and president of SINTRAUNIONBRA, who is visiting Portland as part of a program designed to educate American union members about the violence being committed against Colombian labor leaders.
The US is also currently working on a Free Trade agreement with Colombia

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