[Peace] Fwd: Teach-In, Sept 16th

[Alfred Kagan]

>Delivered-To: akagan at alexia.lis.uiuc.edu
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>Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 13:20:13 -0500
>To: alario at uiuc.edu;, galliher at uiuc.edu;, akagan at uiuc.edu;,
>	rsnyder at uiuc.edu
>From: Michael Goldman <mgoldman at uiuc.edu>
>Subject: Teach-In, Sept 16th
>Status:  
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>hi folks, here's the announcement, thanks very much for circulating. 
>a flyer is coming,.. cheers, michael
>
>
>University of Illinois Teach-In on the World Bank and IMF
>
>
>On September 16, 2002, three prominent activists from Nigeria, 
>Mexico, and the Philippines will speak at a  Teach-In on the World 
>Bank and IMF.  Coming just two weeks prior to the annual World 
>Bank/IMF meetings in Washington, DC, the UI Teach-In hopes to open 
>up a public discussion on these powerful, yet little understood, 
>international finance institutions.   Dozens of Teach-Ins are 
>occurring throughout the world in anticipation of the upcoming 
>closed World Bank/IMF meetings. 
>The first speaker, Onesimo Hildago is co-director of the 
>Chiapas-based Center for Economic Research and Social Action, an 
>organization that focuses on military repression and IMF/World Bank 
>neoliberal policies, and the effects on the peoples of Chiapas, 
>Mexico. Our second speaker is Asume Osuoka, who works with 
>Environmental Rights Action, a Nigerian-based human rights advocacy 
>group active in the struggle for democracy and against the violence 
>propagated by the oil and mining companies, and supportive policies 
>by the World Bank and IMF.  The third speaker is Chie Abad, former 
>garment worker who for twelve years made clothes for GAP on the 
>island of Saipan.  She attempted to organize a garment worker union, 
>was threatened by her employers, and now is spokesperson for an 
>international group suing for better conditions for these garment 
>workers.  All three speakers will address the critical issues of 
>just and sustainable development, North-South relations, and the 
>quest for alternatives to the undemocratic World Bank and IMF.
>The Teach-In will be an excellent opportunity for students to hear 
>from people active in the struggle for social and economic justice 
>around the world.  Our venue will be Foellinger Hall (on the quad), 
>7pm, Monday 16th September.  Your participation and sponsorship 
>would be greatly appreciated.  Contributions from units and 
>departments to help offset transport costs are much needed. Please 
>contact Prof. Michael Goldman, Sociology Department, 326 Lincoln 
>Hall, 244-2279/mgoldman at uiuc.edu
>
>Prof. Michael Goldman
>Sociology, University of Illinois
>326 Lincoln Hall MC-454
>Urbana, IL 61801 USA
>(217) 244-2279


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Al Kagan
African Studies Bibliographer and Professor of Library Administration
Africana Unit, Room 328
University of Illinois Library
1408 W. Gregory Drive
Urbana, IL 61801, USA

tel. 217-333-6519
fax. 217-333-2214
e-mail. akagan at uiuc.edu
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