[Peace] Medea Benjamin at Allen Hall

[Laura Haber]

Please forward widely: 

Medea Benjamin
Founder of Code Pink and Global Exchange

Will be speaking about 
"War and Grassroots Activism"
Tuesday, February 22
7:30pm
Main Lounge of Allen Hall
1005 W. Gregory, Urbana
(parking available in the garage across the street, not the lot in front)

(Free signed Medea Benjamin item to anyone who brings proof that they voted in the Feb 22 primary elections.)

About Medea Benjamin:
Medea Benjamin is Founding Director of Global Exchange. For over twenty years, Medea has supported human rights and social justice struggles around the world. Medea is a leading activist in the peace movement and helped bring together the groups forming the coalition United for Peace and Justice (see http://www.unitedforpeace.org/ ). She is also the co-founder of Code Pink: Women for Peace, a women's group that has been organizing creative actions against the war and occupation of Iraq. CODEPINK is pushing for a reorientation of budget priorities in the US to focus on heath care, education and housing, not war. Code Pink now has over 100 chapters throughout the United States (see http://www.codepink4peace.org/ ). 

Medea has traveled several times to Iraq and helped establish the Occupation Watch International Center in Baghdad. The center monitors the military occupation forces and foreign corporations, hosts international delegations, and keeps the international community updated about the occupation forces' activities through its website, http://www.occupationwatch.org . 

She is author of eight books, including "Bridging the Global Gap, The Peace Corps and More," and the award-winning book "Don't Be Afraid, Gringo: A Honduran Woman Speaks from the Heart." 

Medea received a Masters degree in Public Health from Columbia University and a Masters degree in Economics from the New School for Social Research. She worked for ten years as an economist and nutritionist in Latin America and Africa for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, the World Health Organization, the Swedish International Development Agency, and the Institute for Food and Development Policy. 


Co-sponsored by: Campus Greens, Feminist Majority, United Students Against Sweatshops, Anti-War Anti-Racism Effort

Laura Haber
Program Coordinator of Unit One
University of Illinois
68 Allen Hall (MC 050)
1005 W. Gregory
Urbana, IL 61801
(217) 244-2317
lhaber at admin.housing.uiuc.edu

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