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> Join the Mobilization against US intervention in Latin America, April 10-15
> in
> Washington DC! Register today for the Latin America Solidarity conference.
> Registration is available online at:
> http://www.lasolidarity.org/events/A2003/register/index.htm
>
> This year’s mobilization and conference promises to be an important moment
> for the world as people from across the United States, Latin America, and
> all over the globe come together to say no to US military and economic
> intervention. The U.S. government and powerful international financial
> institutions are accelerating corporate globalization in Latin America and
> the Caribbean by imposing pro-corporate, anti-people policies.
>
> This socially and environmentally violent economic model is driven by
> international lending institutions such as the World Bank, International
> Monetary Fund (IMF), and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). It is
> further strengthened through global trade bodies like the World Trade
> Organization (WTO); regional "free trade" agreements like the Free Trade
> Area of the Americas (FTAA) and the Central America Free Trade Agreement
> (CAFTA); and massive industrial regional infrastructure projects like
> Plan Puebla Panama (PPP).
>
> In addition, the militarization of the hemisphere serves the function of
> crushing any social opposition to this economic model. Through military
> training at the School of the Americas/WHISC and other programs, and
> direct military aid, such as Plan Colombia, the U.S. government ensures
> that its client states are ready and willing to terrorize their own
> people.
>
> We are coming together April 10-15 in Washington to say that a better
> world is possible! Let’s organize to create our vision of a better
> world!
>
> Register! Endorse! Organize! at www.lasolidarity.org
>
> CONFERENCE UPDATE
> We have an exciting list of speakers from Latin America and the United
> States that will be participating in the conference:
>
> Vernon Bellacourt, American Indian Movement. [added a space here]Vernon is
> a principal spokesman for the American Indian Movement and a leader in
> actions ranging from the 1972 occupation of the Bureau of Indian Affairs
> in Washington to the 1992 Redskin Superbowl demonstrations. He is
> Co-founder and first Executive Director of the Denver AIM Chapter. His
> involvement at Wounded Knee in 1973 led to a Federal indictment. He is a
> special representative of the International Indian Treaty Council and
> helped organize the first Treaty Conference in 1974. He was jailed for
> throwing his blood on the Guatemalan Embassy to protest the killing of
> 100,000 Indians. He was elected to a 4-year term in his White Earth tribal
> government and developed a model program for the spiritual education of
> Indian prisoners. Vernon is President of the National Coalition on Racism
> in Sports & Media and recipient of the City of Phoenix, Martin Luther King
> Human Rights Award 1993. [from the National Coalition on Racism in Sports
> and the Media website]
>
> Graciela Monteaguado (Argentina), Argentine Autonomist Project, Bread and
> Puppet Theater. Graciela Monteaguado is a human rights activist and
> community artist. She has coordinated puppet and street theater actions at
> protests in Buenos Aires, Vieques, Puerto Rico and throughout the US. She
> will share experiences from Argentina’s popular uprising through puppetry,
> with the help of a few [EMAIL PROTECTED] (a movement of the unemployed) that will
> accompany her to the Mobilization. She currently coordinates the Argentina
> autonomista project, which purpose is to bring news about events in
> Argentina to North America and Europe, through people-to-people exchanges
> and the internet (web and email) and to facilitate non-hierarchical
> communication within Argentina, especially among groups with resources.
>
> Victor Quintana (Mexico), Frente Democrático Campesino de Chihuahua,
> professor of social communication and former Mexican congressman, has been
> an advisor since 1987 to the Frente DemocráticoCampesino de Chihuahua, a
> member organization of the Mexican coalition El Campo No Aguanta Más. Mr.
> Quintana has been working in popular education since 1977. From 1994 to
> 1997 he was a federal congressional representative for the PRD. Mr.
> Quintana is on the board of directors of the Mexican NGO Equipo Pueblo.
> He divides his time between working as an advisor to the Frente
> Democrático Campesino and as a professor at the Universidad Àutònoma de
> Ciudad Juàrez-Chihuahua. He has written various books and is a
> contributor to various newspaper dailies, from La Jornada in Mexico City
> to La Opiniòn in Los Angeles, California. He also has a weekly radio
> program in Ciudad Juarez.
>
> Guadalupe Sequeira (Nicaragua), has worked as a human rights educator and
> is a life-long activist of sexual rights for women in Nicaragua. She
> began education programs in sex education and AIDS prevention, and
> treatment of AIDS patients through her participation in the group
> Xochiquetzal. She has been involved in the struggles to roll back the
> price hikes in basic public services and in union actions against the rise
> in the cost of the "basket" of basic food and other needs. She has worked
> as a volunteer with the National Consumers' Defense Network and
> participates actively in the team that trains legal educators in the
> Campaign against Water Privatization.
>
> The conference will also include a special presentation from The Beehive
> Design collective. The Beehive Collective operates on consensus, sharing
> all decision making and collective responsibilities throughout the hive.
> (no queens here!) “Plan Colombia Mural,” a presentation offered in both
> Spanish and English, is about the connections between colonization,
> militarization, and resource extraction in the Andean Region of South
> America. This portable-mural “tour” is comprised of a 16 feet high banner
> version of the Plan Colombia poster that displays the issues in context of
> the “bigger picture.” The banner is simultaneously accompanied by a
> six-foot tall fabric, or projected, “slide show” that has sixty
> enlargements of the elements of the story as it unfolds. Four presenters,
> each with a different “ant” personality, take turns narrating through the
> mural’s details and facts, helping to break down complex issues into
> smaller, more digestible chunks, while continually explaining how they are
> connected to the "bigger picture.”
>
> Other invited speakers include Ricardo Velez, Colombian Journalist in
> exile; Myriam Marques, Brazilian Workers Party; Fernando Garcia, Cuban
> Interests Section, Washington DC; and Ilenia Medina, Venezuelan
> Representative to the OAS.
> ____________________
> OUTREACH MATERIAL for the April Mobilization is available on the
> LASolidarity.org web site. You can easily download a PDF version of the
> flyer, posters as well fact sheets about the issues to educate and
> mobilize your community. To download outreach materials in Spanish and
> English, go to http://www.lasolidarity.org/organize.html#flyer
>
> _____________________
>
> LOGISTICAL INFORMATION:
> To find out more about housing, transportation to DC, childcare et. visit
> http://www.lasolidarity.org/events/A2003/logistics.htm
> BOARD HOUSING: http://www.lasolidarity.org/ride%20board/housing.php
> BOARD RIDE: http://www.lasolidarity.org/ride%20board/ride.php
> _______________________
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