[Imc] Saturday DC conference listings

[pfmueth]

All, I should be attending this, if local imc is documenting it in its 
entirety, I will try to concentrate on interviews, as long as I hold up. ..

cheers

full length version should be on essentialaction.org


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S A T U R D A Y, September 29, 2001
9:00 am - 10:30 am Plenary
Our World is Not for Sale!
Bertha Caceres, COPINH (Honduras)
Vanessa Dixon (U.S.)
Chatinkha Nkhoma, Global AIDS Alliance (Malawi)
Virginia Setshedi, Anti-Privatization Forum (South Africa)
Location: National Baptist Memorial Church

10:45 am - 12:15 pm Action Sessions

HIV/AIDS & Intellectual Property Rights

Salih Booker, Africa Action (U.S.)
Chatinkha Nkhoma, Global AIDS Alliance (Malawi)
Robert Weissman, Essential Action (U.S.)
Location: All Souls Church

Labor & Sweatshops

Chie Abad, former sweatshop worker in Saipan (Philippines) 
Lucas Benitez, Coalition of Immokalee Workers (U.S.)
Harry Clerveau, Haitian Platform for Advocacy for Alternative 
Development-PAPDA (Haiti)
Norma Guillermina Solís Torres, Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras 
(Mexico)
Moderator: Daisy Pitkin, Campaign for Labor Rights (U.S.)
Location: Casa del Pueblo

Corporate Globalization & Indigenous Rights

Bertha Caceres, COPINH (Honduras)
Ernesto Ledesma, Global Exchange (Mexico)
Ibe Wilson, Kuna Youth Movement (Panama)
Moderator: Orin Langelle, ACERCA (U.S.)
Location: National Baptist Memorial Church

12:15 pm - 1:15 pm Lunch Break

1:15 pm - 2:45 pm Action Sessions

Privatization

Harry Clerveau, Haitian Platform for Advocacy for Alternative 
Development-PAPDA (Haiti)
Vineeta Gupta, Insaaf (Justice) International (India)
Virginia Setshedi, Anti-Privatization Forum (South Africa)
Moderator: Sara Grusky, Global Challenge Initiative (U.S.)
Location: All Souls Church

Land and Environment

Tania Arosemena, Civil Society Initiative for the Environment (Panama) 
Bertha Carcares, COPINH (Honduras)
Katia Grams de Lima, Landless Workers Movement - MST (Brazil)
Moderator: Daphne Wysham, Sustainable Energy and Economy Network (U.S.) 
Location: Casa del Pueblo

Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA)
Carrie Biggs-Adams, Communication Workers of America (U.S.)
Evelyn Larrieux, Solidarité Famn Ayisen (Haitian Women's Solidarity) -- SOFA 
(Haiti)
Manuel Perez Rocha, Mexican Action Network Against Free Trade - RMALC (Mexico)
Moderator: Margrete Strand Rangnes, Public Citizen (U.S.)
Location: National Baptist Memorial Church

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Closing Plenary
Ending Global Apartheid: Another World Is Possible

Marie Dennis, Religious Working Group on the World Bank and IMF (U.S.)
Kevin Danaher, Global Exchange (U.S.)
Luis Gilberto Murillo, former governor of Chocó State (Colombia)
Moderator: Robert Weissman, Essential Action (U.S.)
Location: National Baptist Memorial Church