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Speaker Biography
Victor Geronimo
Dominican Republic
Convergence of Movements of the Peoples of the Americas (COMPA); Coordination of Popular, Union, and
Victor Geronimo is a journalist and lawyer, an alum of the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo, and has participated in social and popular movements since 1981. As a member of the Coordination Team of the Coordination of Popular, Union and Drivers Organizations, an anti-neoliberal coordination against the IMF, 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 is also the General Facilitator for the Convergence of Movements of Peoples of the Americas-COMPA (2002-2005), 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. As part of his work in all of these organizations, he is committed to developing alternatives for sustainable and dignified development.
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