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#631: Speakers from Haiti and Chiapas in NY/NJ (fwd)
From: d. e s s e r <mabouye@escape.com>
From: Dominique E. <mabouye@escape.com>
Witness for Peace invites you to hear speakers from
HAITI AND CHIAPAS
On Popular Resistance to the Globalized Economy
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 of CIEPAC (Economic and
Political Research Center for Community Action), in Chiapas, Mexico.
Castro Soto is a former member of Bishop Samuel Ruiz's National Mediation
Commission support team and a former resettlement coordinator for
Guatemalan refugees.
Introduced by Tom F. Driver, Professor of Theology and Culture Emeritus,
Union Theological Seminary
At these times and places:
Tuesday, Oct. 5, 1999, at 8:00 PM
The Puffin Cultural Forum
20 East Oakdene Avenue
Teaneck, NJ
Phone 201-836-8923
Wednesday, Oct. 6, 1999 at 7:00 PM
Union Theological Seminary
Broadway at 121st St.
New York, NY
Phone 212-662-7100
Thursday, Oct. 7, 1999, at 7:30 PM
Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture
53 Prospect Park West
Brooklyn, NY
Phone 718 768 2972
Friday, Oct. 8, 1999, at 7:30 PM
The Jan Hus Presbyterian Church
351 E. 74th Street
New York, NY
Phone 212-288-6743
Chiapas, in southern Mexico, and the Caribbean nation of Haiti are two
places in the western hemisphere where resistance to the economic
measures of "the new world order" are most strong. Witness for Peace is
proud to offer a joint appearance by two distinguished speakers reporting on
popular resistance to the pressures their lands are under from 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, now in the headlines again because of renewed
attempts by the Mexican army to crush it. In Haiti, the resistance has
plunged the country into a lengthy political crisis. The conflict in
both places concerns issues that affect the entire developing world.
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Tom F. Driver
Sheffield, MA
<tfd3@columbia.edu>
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