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Speaker Biography
Victor Geronimo
Dominican Republic
COMPA/Coordination of Popular, Union, and Drivers Organizations
Victor Geronimo is a journalist and lawyer, an alum of the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo, and has participated in the Social and Popular Movement since 1981. As a member of the Coordination Team of the Coordination of Popular, Union and Drivers Organizations, a space of anti-neoliberal coordination against the IMF, he directed several protests and general strikes from 1997-2001. Victor is also a member of the National Directory of the Unity and Struggle Coordination, which recently directed the two most powerful general strikes of the last two decades of the history of Dominican Republic, against the IMF, the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) between the Dominican Republic and USA, indebtedness to Interamerican Development Bank (IADB) and other international banks. He is also the General Facilitator for the Convergence of Movements of Peoples of the Americas-COMPA-(2002-2004), a network that unites dozens of popular, campesino, indigenous, religious, student, women's, and community organizations, and unions from around the American continent against corporate globalization, FTAA, WTO, IADB, and IMF, and for developing alternatives to these.
During his life as an activist and leader of social and popular organizations in the struggle since 1981 against the IMF and neoliberal policies he has been the object of persecution, housebreakings, jailing and other outrages in evident violation of the human and constitutional rights in the Dominican Republic.
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