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Cafe Simpatico: January 15: 7:30 pm
Guatemala: Human Rights Update with Carmen Miranda Barrios and Wendy Mendez
Join us for this exciting event!
Wendy Mendez is a human rights defender, founder of the grassroots
organization HIJOS Guatemala (sons and daughters of the disappeared), and
petitioner before the Inter American Human RIghts Courts in the Military Diary
Case.
Carmen Miranda-Barrios is from San Marcos, Guatemala. Came to Canada in the
early 90s and landed in Halifax, N. S. Made her way from east to west with the
goal of finding other Guatemalan exiles who were living in Vancouver and
joined the Women group "Nuestra Voz" and worked with Canadian and Guatemalan
women to raise funds to send to women grassroots groups back home. She is
also a member of the BC CASA volunteer group that promotes and sells Café
Justicia to support the Campesino Community of the Highlands (CCDA) struggle
for their right to land, health and the common good. Through the years, Carmen
manage to go back to school and finished her doctoral degree at the University
of British Columbia with a speciality in Diaspora, Media and Exile. She has
taught Spanish language courses at UBC, Douglas College and currently teaches
a course on Global Indigenous Perspectives in Langara College. Carmen is... also
part of the bilingual radio show and alternative media collective that
produces America Latina al Dia, on 100.5 fm every Saturday on Vancouver
Cooperative Radio.
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