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50 Years Is Enough Network Speaking Tour in Vermont October 4th and 5th Water privatization. Environmental destruction. Corporate greed. Debt. Low-paying jobs. Unaffordable healthcare. Unsafe food. Forced displacement. Economic insecurity. These are challenges we all face. Meet people from around the world who are struggling against World Bank, the IMF, U.S. military intervention – the global system that creates these conditions, that places corporate rights over human rights. Hear about their struggles and share your strategies. Speaking in Vermont: * Victor Geronimo :: COMPA/Coordination of Popular, Union, and Drivers Organizations :: Dominican Republic * Thomas Kocherry :: National Fishworkers' Forum, National Alliance of Peoples Movements, National Centre for Labour TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4TH AT 7:00 PM UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT, BURLINGTON - FLEMING MUSEUM ROOM 101 AND WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5TH AT 7:00 PM UNITARIAN CHURCH, 130 MAIN STREET, MONTPELIER The 50 Years Is Enough Network, in cooperation with United for Peace and Justice, a national anti-war coalition, is bringing speakers from the Global South to universities, community groups, labor unions, women’s organizations, and other venues in the U.S. Sponsored in Vermont by Peace & Justice Center, Vermont Livable Wage Campaign, Vermont Workers' Center, International Socialist Organization, School of Americas Watch Vermont, United Electrical Workers - District 2, Global Justice Ecology Project, Will Miller Social Justice Lecture Series (pending), Vermont Says NO to War Committee. These speakers will discuss the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the links between economic and military violence – as exemplified by the recent appointment of Paul Wolfowitz, a key architect of the invasion and occupation of Iraq, to the presidency of the World Bank. They will talk the current model of globalization and what that means for people in their community and what they’re doing to resist that model. __________________________________________________
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