<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><i class="">Susana Prieto Terrazas is out of jail! Thank you to everyone who contributed to getting her released. </i><i class="">The hard work of getting her charges dropped still continues.</i><div class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
</div>
<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Ryan Harvey <<a href="mailto:rharvey@citizen.org" class="">rharvey@citizen.org</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Susana Prieto has been released on bail!</b><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">July 2, 2020 at 9:41:15 AM EDT<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Ryan Harvey <<a href="mailto:rharvey@citizen.org" class="">rharvey@citizen.org</a>><br class=""></span></div><br class=""><div class="">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class="">
<meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)" class="">
<style class=""><!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:"Cambria Math";
panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Calibri;
panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:#0563C1;
text-decoration:underline;}
span.EmailStyle17
{mso-style-type:personal-compose;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
color:windowtext;}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;}
@page WordSection1
{size:8.5in 11.0in;
margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}
div.WordSection1
{page:WordSection1;}
--></style>
<div lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" class="">
<div class="WordSection1"><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" class="">Hey everyone,<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" class=""> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" class="">Thanks so much for organizing events yesterday in solidarity with Susana Prieto Terrazas, or for helping connect us with folks who could.
<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" class=""> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b class=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt" class="">We got word late last night that Susana has been released from jail!
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt" class="">While her release is conditional and her charges are still there, we are celebrating that she has at least walked out of what was clearly intended to be a long period of punitive detention.
<b class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" class=""> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" class="">Alongside your efforts, which delivered letters and met with consulate officials in 10 locations across the US, we sent 5,000 constituent letters to Congress this week, which resulted in 60 members of Congress
signing a letter demanding her release. Protests also took place across Mexico.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" class=""> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" class="">There are two good articles on Susana’s case I would suggest, one from
<a href="http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/22636/maquiladoras-mexico-lawyer-reopen-pandemic-coronavirus-labor-pandemic" class="">
In These Times</a> (regrading her organizing work) and another from <a href="https://prospect.org/labor/mexico-union-busting-under-the-new-nafta/" class="">
The American Prospect</a> (putting her arrest in the context of NAFTA).<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" class=""> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" class="">As Mexico’s labor law reforms and the new NAFTA’s strengthened labor protections take effect, international solidarity and a quick response to cases like this are going to be absolutely crucial in making them
real. So I really appreciate you recognizing the role we can play in that effort and taking quick action to be there when it was needed most.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" class=""> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" class="">We will continue pushing to make sure Susana’s charges are dropped and that any cases like hers in the future are met with a similar level of mobilization and political tension.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" class=""> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" class="">Thanks again for your work on this!
<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" class=""> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" class="">Ryan<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" class=""> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" class=""> </span></div>
<div class="">
<div class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><b class=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt" class="">Ryan Harvey<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" class="">National Field Director<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" class="">Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" class="">Rethink Trade<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i class=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt" class=""><a href="mailto:rharvey@citizen.org" class="">rharvey@citizen.org</a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i class=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt" class="">202-454-5129</span></i><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>