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Task Force on the Americas

Annual Dinner
September 26

This year the Task Force on the Americas is dedicating its annual dinner to the Honduras National Popular Resistance Front (FNRP) against the coup of June 2009. The fundraiser is scheduled for Sunday, September 26, at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Marin, 240 Channing Way, San Rafael.

Doors open at 6:00 PM with a social hour, raffle, and no-host wine bar. Dinner is at 7:00 PM. Popular Marin County folksinger-songwriter-guitarist Jon Fromer will offer a medley of inspiring selections.

Guest speaker Dana Frank, Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz, will report on her first-hand research into the role of women, youth, and labor behind the emergence of the dynamic social justice movement. Frank is author of several books, including Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America, which focuses on Honduras. For a decade she has worked closely in solidarity with the Coalition of Honduran Banana and Agroindustrial Unions and the US Labor Education in the Americas Project. Since the coup, she has written widely about Honduras in the U.S. press, including The Nation, NACLA, NPR.com, San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury-News, LATimes.com, the Huffington Post, and Common Dreams.

Reservations required. Please call 415/924-3227. Dinner is $50-100 per person sliding scale. Seating is limited. The venue is wheelchair accessible.

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Updated August 15, 2010