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#569: Speakers' schedule (fwd)
From: Tom F. Driver <tfd3@columbia.edu>
SPEAKERS FROM HAITI AND CHIAPAS
TO DISCUSS POPULAR RESISTANCE TO
THE GLOBALIZED ECONOMY
Witness for Peace will soon bring speakers from both Haiti and Chiapas to
the Mid-Atlantic Region. They will report on popular resistance to
economic policies being forced upon their two localities by The World
Bank, The International Monetary Fund, multinational corporate
interests, and the governments of the United States and Mexico.
The most visible sign of resistance in Chiapas, a state in southern
Mexico, is the Zapatista movement, which surfaced on January 1, 1994,
and has recently been in the headlines again because of renewed attempts
by the Mexican army to crush it. In Haiti, the resistance plunged
the country into a political crisis that has lasted for three years.
The conflict in both places concerns issues that affect the entire
developing world.
The speakers will be:
CAMILLE CHALMERS, Executive Director of PAPDA (Platform for an
Alternative Development for Haiti). A survivor of imprisonment and
torture during Haiti's military dictatorship, Chalmers is a former Chief
of staff of President Aristide's government-in-exile. He is also
Professor and Vice-Dean of the State University of Haiti and a
consultant to the United Nations.
GUSTAVO CASTRO SOTO, international policy analyst for CIEPAC
(Economic and Political Research Center for Community Action) in
Chiapas. Castro Soto is a former member of Bishop Ruiz's National
Mediation Commission support team and a former resettlement coordinator
for Guatemalan refugees.
Witness for Peace is a politically independent movement of people of
faith and conscience, dedicated to nonviolence, seeking to change
U.S. policy in Central America and the Caribbean . Founded in 1983 to
provide witness and documentaton during the Contra War in Nicaragua, it
has sponsored over 600 delegations to, and published documentation on,
U.S.-backed military and economic violence in Nicaragua, Guatemala,
Cuba, Chiapas, and Haiti.
SCHEDULE
Philadephia area
Camille Chalmers alone:
Oct 1 Fri. 11:15am Community College of Philadelphia
Contact: Fay Beauchamp,
215-751-8668
2 Sat. 10:00am Old St. Augustine's Church in Philadelphia
Contact: Father Joe
Genito, 215-627-1316
7:30pm St. Martin's in the Fields Church,
Chestnut Hill
Contact: Michael Norman, 215-280-7780
Camille Chalmers and Gustavo Castro Soto:
Oct 3 Sun. 3:00pm Pacem in Terris, Wilmington
Contact: Sally Millbury, 302-656-2721
7:00pm Friends Meeting House, Swarthmore
Contact: Wendy Chmelewski, 610-328-8557
4 Mon. 10:00am Westchester State University
Contact: Fred Struckmeyer, 610-436-2754
3:00pm St. Joseph's University
Contact: Rick Warren, 610-660-1747
5:30pm Maryknoll House
Contact: Linda Panetta, 215-473-2162
5 Tue. 10:00am Villanova University
Contact: Joe Betts, 610 519 4708
12:00 noon American Friends Service Committee
Contact: Jennifer Atlee, 215-241-7162
New York City area
In this area, the speakers will be Introduced by Tom F. Driver, Professor of
Theology and Culture Emeritus, Union Theological Seminary in New York
Tues. Oct. 5
8:00 pm -- The Puffin Cultural Forum, 20 E. Oakdene Ave.,
Teaneck, NJ (co-sponsored by the Bergen County
Committee on Central America)
Phone: 201-836-8923
Wed. Oct. 6
12:00 - 13:30 pm -- NACLA (North American Committee on Latin
America) 475 Riverside Drive, Manhattan.
7:00 pm -- Union Theological Seminary, 3041 Broadway,
Manhattan.
Phone: 212-662-7100
Thurs. Oct. 7
12:30 pm -- William Patterson University, New Jersey
7:30 pm -- Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture,
53 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn
(co-sponosred by Lafayette Ave. Presbyterian Church
and Park Slope Methodist Church)
Phone: 718 768 2972
Fri. Oct. 8
7:30 pm -- Jan Hus Presbyterian Church, 351 E. 74th St.,
Manhattan.
Phone: 212-288-6743
Gustavo Castro Soto alone:
Oct. 21 Thu. 9:30 or 12:30 (to be determined)
Community College of Philadelphia
Contact: Fay Beauchamp, 215-751-8668
22 Fri. 7:00pm Pennswood Village, Bucks County
Contact: Elizabeth Huberman, 215-968-2913
Overall contact:
Tom F. Driver and Anne L. Barstow
Witness for Peace, Mid-Atlantic Region
Phone: 413-229-2604 or 212-662-8209
Email: tfd3@columbia.edu
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Tom F. Driver
Sheffield, MA
<tfd3@columbia.edu>