50 Years Is Enough Network Speaking Tour
Early October 2005
Water privatization. Environmental destruction. Corporate greed. Debt. Low-paying jobs. Unaffordable healthcare. Unsafe food. Forced displacement. Economic insecurity.
These are challenges we all face.
Meet people from around the world who are struggling against World Bank, the IMF, U.S. military intervention – the global system that creates these conditions, that places corporate rights over human rights. Hear about their struggles and share your strategies.
The 50 Years Is Enough Network, in cooperation with United for Peace and Justice, a national anti-war coalition, is bringing speakers from the Global South to universities, community groups, labor unions, women’s organizations, and other venues in the U.S.
These speakers will discuss the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the links between economic and military violence – as exemplified by the recent appointment of Paul Wolfowitz, a key architect of the invasion and occupation of Iraq, to the presidency of the World Bank. They will talk the current model of globalization and what that means for people in their community and what they’re doing to resist that model.
Calendar: Check out Speaking Tour dates near you
Speakers (invited):
* Nompumelelo "Pinkie" Magwaza :: Jubilee South Africa, Youth For Work, Poets For Struggle :: South Africa
* Victor Geronimo :: COMPA/Coordination of Popular, Union,
and Drivers Organizations :: Dominican Republic
* Thomas Kocherry :: National Fishworkers' Forum, National
Alliance of Peoples Movements, National Centre for Labour
of India :: India
* George Martin :: United for Peace and Justice, Peace Action Wisconsin :: Milwaukee, WI
* Abdul Henderson
Organization List for Other Speakers (Prospective)
Iraq Veterans Against War :: US
September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows :: US
US Labor Against the War :: US
Veterans for Peace :: US
We are looking for local organizations in the U.S. that are interested in bringing these activists, organizers, and leaders to their communities.
For more information, please contact Maureen Daniel at organizer@50years.org or 202-463-2265.
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