The Second Continental Conference of the Americas Against "Free Trade" and Privatizations will meet in Mexico on April 4, 5, 6, 2008.
The newsletter of the Organizing Committee notes that the following people will be speaking at the opening night rally, which will be held at 5 p.m. on Friday, April 4 in the auditorium of the Mexican Electrical Workers Union (SME) in downtown Mexico City (Antonio Caso 45, Col. Tabacalera):
Claudia Sheinbaum, Secretary of Energy of the Legitimate Government of Mexico, representing Andr=E9s Manuel Lopez Obrador (Mexico); Antonio Carlos Sid, member of the National Executive Board of the Brazilian Workers Confederation (CUT) (Brazil); a representative of the National Mineworkers Union of Mexico; Ezequiel Rosario, leader of Section 22 of the National Education Workers Union (Mexico); Cindy Sheehan, anti-war activist and independent Congressional candidate (United States); Cynthia McKinney, presidential candidate of the Power to the People Coalition (United States); Jaime Eduardo Alcivar, National Assembly of Ecuador; Mario Huaman Rivera, general secretary of the CGTP of Peru; Pedro Montes, general secretary of the COB of Bolivia; a representative of the UNT of Venezuela; among others.
