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From: nunu kidane <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 08:56:33 -0700
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Subject: [adnalist] EVENT: Ending Global Apartheid
ADNA Event: 010924
Message from: Africa Action
For contact information see also:
http://www.africapolicy.org/adna
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Friends:
with the change of plans for what was supposed to take place in Washington
DC at the end of this month, below is a series of teach-ins by jointly
organized by various groups, that addresses the issues of globalizaitons,
HIV/AIDS and poverty.
Ending Global Apartheid
Washington, DC, 27-29 September 2001
http://www.essentialaction.org/wbimf/
Schedule (subject to change)
T H U R S D A Y, September 27, 2001
4:00 pm _ 6:00 pm
Conversation about Peace with Howard Zinn
Location: All Souls Church
7:00 pm _ 9:30 pm
Opening Plenary: Ending Global Apartheid
Salih Booker, Africa Action, (U.S.)
Njoki Njoroge Njehu, 50 Years Is Enough Network, (U.S./Kenya)
Location: National Baptist Church
F R I D A Y, September 28, 2001
10:00 am _ 11:30 am Plenary
Democratizing Development: The Case Against Structural
Adjustment
Location: National Baptist Church
11:45 am _ 1:15 pm Action Sessions
World Bank Bonds Boycott
Matt Feinstein, Clark University, (U.S)
Vineeta Gupta, Insaaf (Justice) International (India)
Laura Livoti, Economic Justice Now (U.S.)
Moderator: Neil Watkins, Center for Economic Justice (U.S.)
Location: All Souls Church
Poverty Reduction Strategy Process
Nancy Alexander, Global Challenge Initiative (U.S.)
Aggripina Mosha, Tanzania Gender Networking Programme
(Tanzania)
Moderator: Lidy Nacpil, Freedom from Debt and Jubilee South
(Philippines) Location: Casa del Pueblo
1: 15 pm _ 2:30 pm Lunch Break
2: 30 pm _ 4:00 pm Action Sessions
Jubilee & Reparations
Dennis Brutus, Poet, Jubilee South Africa, anti_apartheid activist
(South Africa) Jonah Gokova, Ecumenical Support Services and
Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt & Development (Zimbabwe) Lidy
Nacpil, Freedom from Debt and Jubilee South (Philippines)
Moderator: Marie Clark, Jubilee USA (U.S.)
Location: All Souls Church
Legislative
Jaron Burke, Congressional Staffer (U.S.)
Joanne Carter, RESULTS (U.S.)
Aggripina Mosha, Tanzania Gender Networking Programme
(Tanzania)
Robert Weissman, Essential Action (U.S.)
Location: Casa del Pueblo
S A T U R D A Y, September 28, 2001
9:00 am _ 10:30 am Plenary
Our World is NOT for Sale!
Location: National Baptist Church
10:45 am _ 12:15 pm Action Sessions
HIV/AIDS & Intellectual Property Rights
Chatinkha Nkhoma (Malawi)
Robert Weissman, Essential Action (U.S.)
Location: All Souls Church
Labor & Sweatshops
Chie Abad, former sweatshop worker in Saipan (Philippines)
Harry Clerveau (Haiti)
Daisy Pitkin, Campaign for Labor Rights (U.S.)
Location: Casa del Pueblo
Plan Puebla Panama & Indigenous Rights
Location: National Baptist Memorial Church
12:15 pm _ 1:15 pm Lunch Break
1:15 pm _ 2:45 pm Action Sessions
Privatization
Camille Chalmers, Haitian Platform for Advocacy for Alternative
Development_PAPDA (Haiti) Trevor Ngwane, Anti_Privatization
Forum (South Africa)
Location: All Souls Church
Environment
Tania Arosemena, Civil Society Initiative for the Environment
(Panama)
Daphne Wysham, Sustainable Energy and Economy Network
(U.S.)
Location: Casa del Pueblo
Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA)
Location: National Baptist Memorial Church
3:00 pm _ 4:00 pm Closing Plenary
Ending Global Apartheid: Another World Is Possible
Location: National Baptist Church
Invited Speakers include:
Chie Abad, former sweatshop worker in Saipan (Philippines)
Tania Arosemena, Civil Society Initiative for the Environment
(Panama)
Dennis Brutus, Poet, Jubilee South Africa, anti_apartheid activist
(South Africa) Camille Chalmers, Haitian Platform for Advocacy for
Alternative Development_PAPDA (Haiti) Marie Dennis, Chair of
Religious Working Group on the IMF and World Bank (U.S.) Kevin Danaher,
Global Exchange (U.S.) Demba Dembele, CONGAD (Senegal)
Molly Dhlamini, Student Union For Christian Action (South Africa)
Jonah Gokova, Ecumenical Support Services and chair of
Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt & Development (Zimbabwe) Vineeta
Gupta, Insaaf (Justice) International (India) Aggripina Mosha,
Tanzania Gender Networking Programme (Tanzania) Njoki Njoroge
Njehu, 50 Years is Enough (Kenya/U.S.) Cristobal Sanchez,
Peasants' Association of Rabinal Maya_Achi
(Guatemala) Robert Weissman, Essential Action (U.S.) Daphne
Wysham, Sustainable Energy and Economy Network (U.S.)
Sponsors of the Teach In on the World Bank and IMF:
50 Years Is Enough Network, Jobs With Justice,
Essential Action, Global Exchange, Jubilee USA Network,
World Bank Bonds Boycott (Center for Economic Justice)
Contact Essential Action with questions about the Teach In
Tickets
Thursday evening Opening Plenary: $5
Thursday, Friday and Saturday ticket: $15
Student ticket: $10
Purchase Online:
http://www.essentialaction.org/wbimf/locations.html
Event Locations
National Baptist Memorial Church, 16th St and Columbia, NW,
Washington DC
Casa del Pueblo Methodist Church,
1459 Columbia Rd., NW, Washington, DC (One block east from
National Baptist Memorial )
All Souls Unitarian Church, 16th St and
Harvard, NW, Washington, DC (One block south from National
Baptist Memorial)
Directions from Metro:
Take Metro's Green Line to the Columbia Heights Station (exit at
Irving and 14th St), walk one block south to Columbia Road, go
right. Casa del Pueblo will be half a block ahead on your right,
National Baptist Memorial will be one block ahead on your right,
and All Souls will be south one block. You can also use the Ride
Guide to find your way around Washington, DC with public
transportation.
Vicki Lynn Ferguson
Director of Education and Outreach
Africa Action
(incorporating the American Committee on Africa,
Africa Fund, and Africa Policy Information Center)
Washington, DC office:
110 Maryland Ave, NE #508
Washington, DC 20002
Tel: 202-546-7961, Fax: 202-546-1545
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URL: http://www.africapolicy.org
New York office:
50 Broad Street, Suite 1701, New York, NY 10004
Tel:212-785-1024, Fax:212-785-1078
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