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50 Years Is Enough Fall 2005 Speaking Tour
Tour Calendar
Sep 23, 2005
2:30 pm |
Washington, DC
American University, Dunblane Bldg. #101 and #102
Topic: TBA
Speaking:
Thomas Kocherry
Contact:
Sponsors: American University
Wisconsin Ave. North from downtown DC and other points south. Go left onto Van Ness St. (at the McDonald’s) and cross Nebraska Ave. Make a right onto 42 St. (just past Nebraska Ave.)
Make the first right onto Warren St. Drive up the street less than 100 feet and see metal fence and campus on left-hand side. Park on the street and take the path through fence and to the Dunblane Building right there. Proceed to classroom in #102.
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Sep 27, 2005
TBA |
Madison, WI
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Topic: TBA
Speaking:
Nompumelelo "Pinkie" Magwaza
and George Martin
Contact:
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Sep 28, 2005
7:00 pm |
Madison, WI
UW-Madison Memorial Union - 800 Langdon St.
Topic: The Struggle for Global Justice in a Time of War
Speaking:
Nompumelelo "Pinkie" Magwaza
and George Martin
Contact:
Sponsors: Madison Infoshop, Madison Fair Trade Action |
Sep 29, 2005
Pot-Luck starts at 6pm....Panel starts at 6:30pm |
Northampton, MA
First Church of Christ, 129 Main St.
Topic: TBA
Speaking:
Thomas Kocherry
and Victor Geronimo
Contact:
Sponsors: Massachusetts Global Action
This event is free and open to the public! |
Sep 30, 2005
7:00 - 9:00 |
Boston, MA
33 Harrison Ave, 3rd floor, (Chinatown)
Topic: TBA
Speaking:
Thomas Kocherry
and Victor Geronimo
Contact:
Sponsors: Massachusetts Global Action, Bank Busters,
See MGA website for directions to the event.(www.MassGlobalAction.org/main/directions.htm)
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Sep 30, 2005
6:00 – 8:00 p.m. |
Chicago, IL
Damen Hall, 10th Floor, Hussey Lounge, Loyola
Topic: TBA
Speaking:
Nompumelelo "Pinkie" Magwaza
Contact:
Sponsors: TBA |
Oct 1, 2005
7 pm |
New York City, NY
Bluestockings Bookstore
Topic: Victor Geronimo, Dominican Labor Organizer/ Economic Justice Activist
Speaking:
Victor Geronimo
Contact:
Sponsors: Solidarity's New York Branch and New York CISPES,The Weekly News Update on the Americas, NicaNet, Iglesia San Romero, Miercoles Cultural, Bluestockings Bookstore
Bluestockings Bookstore is on 172 Allen Street (between Stanton and Rivington - 1 block south of Houston and 1st Avenue)$5-10 is the suggested donation.
Solidarity's New York Branch and New York CISPES host a talk by Victor Geronimo, an activist from the Dominican Republic working with the Convergence of Movements of the Peoples of the Americas (COMPA), an anti-neoliberal
coordination against the IMF. As a member of this group, he directed several protests and general strikes from 1997-2001. Victor is 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), indebtedness to Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) and other international banks.
He 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. He will talk about the current model
of globalization and what that means for people in their community and what they're doing to resist that model. |
Oct 1, 2005
4:00 pm |
Chicago, IL
Decima Musa Restaurant, 1901 S. Loomis St
Topic: Debt, AIDS and Resistance: A South African Poet and Youth Activist Speaks Out
Speaking:
Nompumelelo "Pinkie" Magwaza
Contact:
Sponsors: 50 Years is Enough and United for Peace and Justice, the tour is being hosted in Chicago by activists in antiwar and progressive organizations.
NOMPUMELELO “PINKIE” MAGWAZA, a South African youth organizer and poet, will visit Chicago October 1 as part of a U.S. tour of Third World activists aimed at highlighting how the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) are responsible for economic austerity and crippling in poor countries around the world.
The tour follows the annual meetings of the World Bank/IMF in Washington, D.C., where protesters challenged the international financial institutions the same weekend as the massive anti-war demonstration.
Protesters highlighted the connections between the military violence in Iraq—and elsewhere—and the economic violence perpetrated by the IMF and the World Bank, a connection made even clearer with the appointment of Paul Wolfowitz, a key architect of the Iraq war, to the presidency of the World Bank.
An activist with Jubilee South Africa, Pinkie will highlight the lethal impact of debt on her country—including the AIDS crisis—and discuss the devastating results of the pro-U.S., free-market policies pursued by the South African government.
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Oct 1, 2005
4 pm |
New York City, NY
La Voz Latina on WBAI: 99.5FM
Topic: TBA
Speaking:
Victor Geronimo
Contact:
Sponsors: 50 Years is Enough, NYCISPES, NYC Solidarity, The Weekly News Update on the Americas, NicaNet, Iglesia San Romero, Miercoles Cultural, Bluestockings Bookstore
LISTEN ON LINE:
http://wbai.org/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=34&Itemid=36)
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Oct 2, 2005
1 pm |
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Olin Auditorium, Room 201
Topic: 50 Years is Enough Teach-In
Speaking:
Thomas Kocherry
Contact:
Sponsors: Student Action Collective, Office of |
Oct 2, 2005
11 am |
New York City, NY
Iglesia San Romero
Topic: TBA
Speaking:
Victor Geronimo
Contact:
Sponsors: 50 Years is Enough, NYCISPES, NYC Solidarity, The Weekly News Update on the Americas, NicaNet, Iglesia San Romero, Miercoles Cultural, Bluestockings Bookstore
Iglesia San Romero: 24-10 AMSTERDAM AVENUE @ 180th (1/9 to 181st, one block east to Amsterdam, turn right)
There may be a chance to meet with Victor in a small gathering IN SPANISH in the South Bronx Sunday evening as well. Please rsvp with Domingo De la Cruz: 718-681-6015
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Oct 3, 2005
7:00 pm |
Milwaukee, WI
Brewing Grounds for Change coffeehouse (2008 N. Farwell Ave.)
Topic: Corporatizing Education, Globalizing Jim Crow
Speaking:
Nompumelelo "Pinkie" Magwaza
Contact:
Sponsors: Education For The People
Brewing Grounds for Change coffeehouse (2008 N. Farwell Ave.) will host South African youth organizer Nompumelelo Pinkie Magwaza. Ms. Magwaza will discuss her participation in Youth for Work, an organization of young people mobilizing around issues of unemployment and education in the Gauteng region, as well as her use of poetry as a tool to raise awareness amongst youth and other sectors of the struggle.
Brewing Grounds For Change (2008 N. Farwell Ave. in Milwaukee?s East Side) is open, but not for business as usual. As the first Latino-owned, cooperatively run, 100% Fair Trade café in the city, Brewing Grounds For Change raises a higher standard for coffee quality and ethical business practices in Milwaukee. |
Oct 3, 2005
4 pm |
Syracuse, NY
204 Maxwell Hall, The Maxwell School of Syracuse University
Topic: TBA
Speaking:
Thomas Kocherry
and Victor Geronimo
Contact:
Sponsors: Syracuse Peace Council |
Oct 4, 2005
7:00 pm |
Urbana-Champaign, IL
Allen Hall-- main Lounge, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Topic: Global Justice and Peace Teach-in
Speaking:
Nompumelelo "Pinkie" Magwaza
and George Martin
Contact:
Sponsors: Unit One, YMCA, Center on Democracy in a Multicultural Society, Center for Global Studies, Center for African Studies, Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, Women and Gender in a Global Perspective, Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies |
Oct 4, 2005
7 pm |
Burlington, VT
FLEMMING MUSEUM ROOM 101 - UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT, BURLINGTON
Topic: Water privatization. Environmental destruction. Corporate greed. Debt. Low-paying jobs. Unaffordable healthcare. Unsafe food. Forced displacement. Economic insecurity.
Speaking:
Thomas Kocherry
and Victor Geronimo
Contact:
Sponsors: Peace & Justice Center, Vermont Livable Wage Campaign, Vermont Workers' Center, International Socialist Organization, School of Americas Watch Vermont, United Electrical Workers - District 2, Global Justice Ecology Project, Will Miller Social Justice Lect
Are you a Peace & Justice Center member? We need YOU to help continue the fight for peace, and for economic and racial justice in Vermont! Please join today - www.pjcvt.org/member.htm |
Oct 5, 2005
6 PM to 8 PM |
Los Angeles, CA
United University Church
Topic: TBA
Speaking:
Nompumelelo "Pinkie" Magwaza
and Abdul Henderson
Contact:
Sponsors: United University Church, United Ministry and St. Mark's Lutheran Church, SAJE - Strategic Actions for a Just Economy
United University Church is right at the edge of the USC campus. The cross streets for the church are Hoover and Jefferson. Please note that there will be limited parking available at the church so it is good to ask people to car-pool and if the church lot is full, you may need to find street parking or park at the Shrine Auditorium down the street.
The event will be a panel discussion with light reception to follow.
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Oct 5, 2005
7 pm |
Montpelier, VT
UNITARIAN CHURCH, 130 MAIN STREET
Topic: Water privatization. Environmental destruction. Corporate greed. Debt. Low-paying jobs. Unaffordable healthcare. Unsafe food. Forced displacement. Economic insecurity.
Speaking:
Victor Geronimo
and Thomas Kocherry
Contact:
Sponsors: Peace & Justice Center, Vermont Livable Wage Campaign, Vermont Workers' Center, International Socialist Organization, School of Americas Watch Vermont, United Electrical Workers - District 2, Global Justice Ecology Project, Will Miller Social Justice Lect
Are you a Peace & Justice Center member? We need YOU to help continue the fight for peace, and for economic and racial justice in Vermont! Please join today - www.pjcvt.org/member.htm
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Oct 6, 2005
7:30 pm |
Orange, CA
Argyros Forum at Chapman University
Topic: World Event Forum Addressing World Bank, IMF, Globalization and the Iraq War
Speaking:
Nompumelelo "Pinkie" Magwaza
and Abdul Henderson
Contact:
Sponsors: TBA
The speakers will discuss the World Bank, the IMF, and the links between economic and military violence both in the global South and here in the U.S. They will talk about the current model of globalization that puts corporate profits over human rights and lives, how it affects their communities, and what they’re doing to resist it. |
Oct 6, 2005
1:00PM |
Johnson, VT
Bentley 207, Johnson State College
Topic: Shut down the IMF/World Bank NOW!
Speaking:
Thomas Kocherry
Contact:
Sponsors: Johnson Anti-War Coalition, International Club, Womyn's Center, Coordinator of Social Diversity & Politcal Awareness (Cabinet Position w/in Student Government)
Follow signs to Bentley parking lot (Main parking lot on campus) |
Oct 7, 2005
3:30 pm |
Columbus, OH
Hagerty Hall, #255, Ohio State University
Topic: TBA
Speaking:
Victor Geronimo
Contact: Mark Stansbery, 614-252-9255, Abril Trigo, trigo.1@osu.edu
Sponsors: TBA |
Oct 9, 2005
5 pm |
Portland, OR
Koinonia House, 633 SW Montgomery St.
Topic: TBA
Speaking:
Victor Geronimo
Contact:
Sponsors: Portland Central America Solidarity Committee (PCASC), 50 Years Is Enough, Jubilee Oregon |
Oct 10, 2005
TBA |
Portland, OR
TBA
Topic: TBA
Speaking:
Victor Geronimo
Contact:
Sponsors: PCASC/ CBLOC |
Oct 11, 2005
7pm |
Albuquerque, NM
SUB (Student Union Building) at the University of New Mexico
Topic: Organizing for Social Justice in the face of globalization in the Dominican Republic
Speaking:
Victor Geronimo
Contact:
Sponsors: Student Organization of Latin American Studies (SOLAS) |
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