TEDx Vancouver Announces Jose Figueroa To Speak At 2011 Program
TEDxVancouver is excited to announce that recently noted refugee and immigration activist Jose Figueroa will be speaking at today’s Tedx Vancouver event. Figueroa, who has been in Canada since 1997, was once a youth member of the University Student Union that was supportive of the FMLN political wing in El Salvador, which has recently been categorized as a “terrorist” organization. Fleeing El Salvador with his wife, Jose was a peaceful student having never taken part in any attacks or fighting between the guerrillas and oppressive government forces. Read the rest of this entry »
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