[Peace] A talk by Walden Bello, 4/12

[C. G. Estabrook]

[Walden Bello is I think one of the most cogent analysts of
contemporary geopolitics.  And he was named for Thoreau's
great book.  --CGE]

   “Empire, Crisis, and Resistance: A View from the South”
   A talk by Dr. Walden Bello
   Professor of Sociology, University of the Philippines 
   and Executive Director, Focus on the Global South,
   Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
   5pm, Wednesday, April 12, 2006
   Gregory Hall 100

Bello played a key role in the movement to restore democracy
to the Philippines during the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos
during the 1970s and 80s. In 2003, Bello was awarded the Right
Livelihood Award, or Alternative Nobel Prize in 2003, issued
annually by the Swedish Parliament, for his “outstanding
efforts in educating civil society about the effects of
corporate globalization, and how alternatives to it can be
implemented.”  

Bello received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Princeton in 1975.
He is currently a member of the International Council of the
World Social Forum, the Board of the Transnational Institute
(Amsterdam), and the Center for Economic Policy Research
(Washington, DC). He is also former chair of Greenpeace
Southeast Asia Board and of Greenpeace International.
  
Bello has published over a dozen books, including Dilemmas of
Domination: the Unmaking of the American Empire (New York:
Henry, Holt, and Co, 2005); The Anti-Development State: The
Political Economy of Permanent Crisis in the Philippines
(Quezon City: University of the Philippines, 2004); and
Deglobalization: Ideas for a New World Economy (London: Zed,
2002). His articles have appeared in Foreign Policy, Review of
International Political Economy, the Columbia Journal of
International Affairs, Le Monde, Le Monde Diplomatique, Race
and Class, Third World Quarterly, Frontline, and La Jornada

Sponsored by the Philippine and Filipino American Interests
Group and the Resistance and Empire Reading Group.