Latin America Week

national | miscellaneous | news report Friday April 04, 2003 17:13 by pat c

Latin America Week ("Free" Trade, Corporate Globalisation) presents: Solidarity Fair Sunday April 6 2003, 1 to 5 pm Oak Room, Mansion House, Dawson St, Dublin 2

Latin America Week ("Free" Trade, Corporate Globalisation) presents:

Solidarity Fair
Sunday April 6 2003, 1 to 5 pm
Oak Room, Mansion House, Dawson St,
Dublin 2

8 international solidarity groups under one roof: - Cuba Support Group -
El Salvador Awareness - Miami Five Campaign - AFrI (Action From Ireland) -
East Timor Ireland Solidarity Campaign - West Papua Action -
Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign - Latin America Solidarity Centre

Finger food from Cuba
Books, Tshirts, crafts on sale
Fair Trade tea, coffee and fruit juice
Photograph exhibition "Lost Rights" from Guatemala
Latin American music

Talks / workshops every hour on the hour as follows:
1:10 pm: "Lost Rights" by Eoin O'Donnell and Jacqueline Healy, who worked
as "protective accompaniers" in Guatemala in a community which is sending
witnesses to the genocide trials of former dictators Rios Montt and Lucas
Garcia. Showing of new Trocaire video "We Must Speak Out"

2 pm: "Cuba Today in a Globalised Latin America" by Jose Alberto Prieto
Sanchez, International Relations analyst from Cuba who has a particular
interest in US foreign policy towards Latin America, and in the Free Trade
Area of the Americas (FTAA) as well as Colombia, Venezuela, Mexico and
Brazil

3 pm: "Fyffes and workers' rights" by Oisin Coughlan, who worked with
banana labourers in Belize. Fyffes, an Irish based multinational
corporation, buys all of the bananas exported from Belize.

4 pm: "Indigenous communities in southern Mexico - resistance to corporate
globalisation" by Carlos Beas Torres of the indigenous organisation
UCIZONI, which represents 84 communities in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec,
Oaxaca, Mexico

Places on the workshops will be allotted on a first come first served basis
on the day.

Numbers at each workshop will be limited to twenty.

For respect to the speakers, workshops will be closed once they have begun
ie latecomers will not be admitted.

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The Latin America Solidarity Centre (LASC) is an initiative for
Development Education, Cultural Promotion and Campaigning Solidarity,
linking Ireland and Latin America 5 Merrion Row, Dublin 2, Ireland
Phone +353 1 676 0435
Fax +353 1 662 1784
Email [email protected]
Website www.iol.ie/~lasc
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