Day School on Colombia

international | miscellaneous | event notice Wednesday May 11, 2005 15:53 by Lasc - Lasc

A day school on various aspects of Colombia run by activists with a long experience of campaigning on Colombian issues, including the Coca Cola Boycott.

Colombia Solidarity Campaign
PO Box 8446
London N17 6NZ
www.colombiasolidarity.org.uk
[email protected]


Day School and AGM, 18 and 19 June 2005
Conway Hall, Red Lion Square
London WC1
Nearest tube: Holborn

18 June 2005
Day School
Suggested donation: £4/ 2

11am: Privatisation, Repression and Resistance in the Public Universities.
Luz Estella Villareal (Colombian University Lecturer)
Juan Pablo Ochoa (Colombian Student Activist)
Lara Coleman (Universidad Viva Campaign)

12am: Communities in Resistance: Barrancabermeja,
San Jose de Apartado and Arauca.
Juan Carlos Galvis
(Vice President CUT Barrancabermeja and Human Rights Director, Sinaltrainal)
Juan Pablo Ochoa
Andy Dockett

1-2 pm: lunch will be available in Conway Hall

2pm: The Multinationals in Colombia: Coca-Cola and BP
Juan Carlos Galvis
(Juan Carlos is one of the plaintiffs in the US court case against CC)
Marta Hinestroza
(Lawyer representing communities destroyed by BP)

3.30pm: The rebirth of the Social Movement across the Andes.
Speakers on Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador and Colombia.


7pm-2am, Fundraising party
With live Cumbia, salsa DJs, food and drink.
Parker Place Bar, 51 Parker Street, Holborn WC2.
Entry: £5


19 June 2005.

AGM

11am- 3pm. The AGM of the Colombia Solidarity Campaign will take place in Conway Hall, with a prompt starting time of 11am. We aim to be finished by 3pm. Details of the meeting, reports, motions and all relevant instructions will be available soon. Lunch will be available. Members and Affiliated Organisations only.

Conway Hall is fully wheelchair accessible.