[Peace] Fwd: RE: your announcements

[Belden Fields]

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>Hi, First, is my talk on the World Summit, friday, noon, 336 Lincoln Hall;
>next is this Teach-IN. thanks if you can circulate this note below.  cheers,
>michael
>
>University of Illinois Teach-In on the World Bank and IMF
>
>Foellinger Hall, ON the Quad, 7pm, Monday 16th September
>
>
>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 these 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 six 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, 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
> >===== Original Message From Belden Fields <a-fields at uiuc.edu> =====
> >Hi Michale,
> >
> >       Sorry, I just got your phone message at 2 pm today (Thrus).  Send 
> me the
> >announcements and I will sent them on to some lists.
> >Belden
>
>Prof. Michael Goldman
>Sociology Department
>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>326 Lincoln Hall, MC-454
>Urbana, IL 61801 USA