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Guatemalan Nobel Peace Laureate to Speak

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Rigoberta Menchu

Oct. 21, Friday -- Nobel Peace Laureate Rigoberta Menchú, Guatemalan human rights activist and indigenous leader, will speak on "Human Rights and Indigenous Peoples" in the Mondavi Center's Jackson Hall at ºÙºÙÊÓƵ. Best known in the U.S. as author of her 1984 autobiography "I, Rigoberta Menchú, an Indian Woman in Guatemala," Menchú was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992, the year of the 500th anniversary of Columbus' voyage to the New World. She now heads the Rigoberta Menchú Tum Foundation and since January 2004 has held the position of Good Will Ambassador for Peace in Guatemala, in the administration of President Oscar Berger. Tickets cost $10 for general admission, and $5 for students and those under 18. They are available on the Web at , by e-mail tickets@ucdavis.edu, tel. (530) 754-ARTS. For more information on Menchú, visit the Hemispheric Institute on the Americas Web site at .

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Susanne Rockwell, Web and new media editor, (530) 752-2542, sgrockwell@ucdavis.edu

Thomas Holloway, Hemispheric Institute on the Americas, (530) 754-9453, thholloway@ucdavis.edu

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