[Peace] Fwd: Global Activist Roundtable, Tuesday 3-5pm!
Alfred Kagan
akagan at uiuc.edu
Mon Apr 5 14:06:34 CDT 2004
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>Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2004 13:36:31 -0500
>To: ken Salo <kensalo at uiuc.edu>
>From: Michael Goldman <mgoldman at uiuc.edu>
>Subject: Global Activist Roundtable, Tuesday 3-5pm!
>
>Global Justice Movements and Transnational Solidarity
>A Debate with Public Intellectuals from the Global South
>
>
>Tuesday April 6th 3:00-5:00 PM
>Temple Buell Hall -Gallery room (downstairs)
>
>The promise and performance of the global
>justice movement to build solidarity across an
>actually existing and sharpening global
>apartheid of racism, sexism, neo-colonialism,
>neo imperialism and other proxies for economic
>class is being hotly debated. Characterized in
>February 2002 by the New York Times as the
>other superpower to American superpower after
>unprecedented anti- war rallies and credited for
>collapsing the WTO s September 2003 Cancun
>summit this transnational network against
>corporate globalization seems set on a
>trajectory towards achieving a more humane world
>order. Self-reflexive reports from the 2004 WSF
>in Mumbai, India however suggest that the
>movement is still strenuously debating the
>conditions of such a humane world ordered
>through principles of transnational solidarity
>which seeks to avoid achieving peace for some,
>especially in the Global North, at the expense
>of justice for all, especially in the Global
>South. Such solidarity would require a world
>free not only of economic inequality in all its
>material forms but also racism, fascism, sexism,
>neocolonialism and an increasingly militaristic
>imperialism. The WSF manifesto claims that such
>an alternate utopia and transnational solidarity
>is not possible but also according to its
>charismatic champion Arundhati Roy, if you
>listen carefully, you can hear it breathing.
>Do you hear it?
>Come and debate with three active public
>intellectuals from the global South on promises,
>challenges, hopes and despairs of the global
>justice movements.
>
>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.
>
--
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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