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Born Activist: Former ‘Frisco 5’ hunger striker continues her fight for justice

[su_carousel source=”media: 33319,33323,33326″ limit=”60″ link=”lightbox” width=”800″ height=”540″ responsive=”no” items=”1″] When she was 14, Maria Cristina Gutierrez sat at her kitchen table in Bogotá, Colombia with five siblings while watching her mother and father argue over dividing four pieces of bread among her father’s co-workers. In the 1960s, Gutierrez’s father organized the first trade union of […]