[Imc] Saturday DC conference listings
pfmueth
pfmueth at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
Fri Sep 28 15:03:19 UTC 2001
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
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