Month of September, 2007

Reprinted from FightBackNews.org

By Chapin Gray

Birmingham, AL - On July 26, Drummond Co., a Birmingham-based coal company, was found 'not liable' in the deaths Colombian trade unionists Valmore Locarno and Victor Orcasita - the head of a union local and his deputy - as well as the next union president Gustavo
Soler. The three leaders of the Sintamienergética miners union worked at the Drummond’s La Loma mine in northern Colombia. They were tortured and murdered in 2001.

Washington D.C. - The Bush Administration is turning justice on its head with the trial of Colombian revolutionary Ricardo Palmera. The National Committee to Free Ricardo Palmera is calling a protest at the D.C. Federal Court Building to demand Palmera’s immediate release. Supporters will support Professor Palmera in the courtroom.