[Peace-discuss] organize a program?

[Lisa Chason]

Below is info on a program with global justice activists from South Africa and Dominican Republic. Their bios are also attached. We are being asked if we are interested in organizing additional event(s) for them in the community on Monday during the day or Tuesday morning. If anyone has any ideas please get back in touch with me. Thanks, Lisa

 

 

two international global justice activists: VIRGINIA SETSHEDI from South Africa (Anti-Privatization Movement), and VICTOR GERONIMO from Dominican Republic (COMPA/Coordination of Popular, Union, and Drivers Organizations) will share their perspectives from the South in  a Global Justice Teach-In On Monday, April 5 at 7 pm im Plym Auditorium in Temple Buell Hall, UIUC - the urban planning and architecture building. Their talk is titled "Do the World Bank, IMF and WTO Policies
Help or Hurt the Poor?"








  VICTOR GERONIMO - Dominican Republic
  COMPA/Coordination of Popular, Union, and Drivers Organizations
  Victor Geronimo is a journalist and lawyer, an alum of the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo, and has participated in the Social and Popular Movement since 1981.  As a member of the Coordination Team of the Coordination of Popular, Union and Drivers Organizations, a space of anti-neoliberal coordination against the IMF, he directed several protests and general strikes from 1997-2001.  Victor is also a member of the National Directory of the Unity and Struggle Coordination, which recently directed the two most powerful general strikes of the last two decades of the history of Dominican Republic, against the IMF, the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) between the Dominican Republic and USA, indebtedness to Interamerican Development Bank (IADB) and other international banks.  He is also the General Facilitator for the Convergence of Movements of Peoples of the Americas-COMPA-(2002-2004), a network that unites dozens of popular, campesino, indigenous, religious, student, womens, and community organizations, and unions from around the American continent against corporate globalization, FTAA, WTO, IADB, and IMF, and for developing alternatives to these. 
  During his life as an activist and leader of social and popular organizations in the struggle since 1981 against the IMF and neoliberal policies he has been the object of persecution, housebreakings, jailing and other outrages in evident violation of the human and constitutional rights in the Dominican Republic. 

  VIRGINIA SETSHEDI Cape Town, South Africa 
  Soweto Electricity Crisis Committee/Anti-Privatisation Forum
  Virginia Setshedi comes from Soweto.  Her activism started while she was a student at the University of the Witswatersrand; she later became a community activist. She is one of the founder members of the Soweto Electricity Crisis Committee, established in 2000 to take up the struggle of  inefficient electricity provision for the poor in Soweto and privatisation of electricity. Virginia is also amongst the activists who established the Anti-Privatisation Forum in Johannesburg, and now participates in the Anti-Privatisation Forum in Cape Town, a forum that brings together community organisations who are affected by privatisation in a broader sense. Presently she is working with the Alternative Information and Development Centre in Cape Town providing community organisations with information around issues of Trade, Debt, Globalisation and Privatisation. 
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