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Event: "ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: PROMISE OR THREAT?"
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The MIT Western Hemisphere Project presents ...
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: PROMISE OR THREAT?
featuring films:
* Strong Roots
* Deadly Embrace
and panelists:
* Jennifer Lemire & Maria Aguiar, Grassroots International
* Liz Canner, independent film-maker
Tuesday, January 15
7 pm in MIT Room 2-105
The event is open to all; admission is free;
food and light refreshments will be provided
Details
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STRONG ROOTS is a documentary about the Landless Workers Movement in
Brazil, a social movement that uses the country's new Constitution
to pressure the government into implementing effective land reforms.
Whereas DEADLY EMBRACE is an investigative documentary that exposes
the damage and instability caused by "structural adjustment programs"
imposed on Nicaragua by the World Bank and the IMF. The two films
present a contrast: the threat of top-down economic upheaval vs. the
promise of grass-roots development.
Jennifer LEMIRE has worked and done research on economic development
in Africa and Latin America. In recent years she has lived in Brazil
and is focused on facilitating grassroots development there. Maria
AGUIAR is Director of Global Programs at Grassroots International and
has worked for social justice in Puerto Rico, Cuba, Haiti, and Brazil.
Liz CANNER is an independent film-maker whose documentaries have won
awards and become important tools in the world-wide movement against
unfair and even dangerous modes of economic development.
This event is organized by the MIT Western Hemisphere Project. It
is part of our "Tuesday Night Terror" film/discussion series: each
week we show a film or video about terrorism and human rights in
the Americas, then discuss it with guest speakers. In subsequent
sessions we will look at Peru, and the United States. For more
information, see: http://web.mit.edu/hemisphere/events/terror.shtml
Co-sponsor: MIT Anthropology Program.
Directions to MIT Room 2-105
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Here's how you get to the MIT campus:
http://whereis.mit.edu/doc/getting-to-mit.html
And here you can see where MIT's Building 2 is:
http://whereis.mit.edu/bin/map?locate=bldg_2
This map shows (in red) that Building 2 is a sort of backwards "C."
Room 105 is on the first floor, on the top-left corner of the
backwards "C" -- i.e., near where Building 2 meets Building 4.
It's not as complicated as it sounds.
Contact
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If you need more information or if you want to let us know what you
think of the program, you can reach us via <hemisphere-admin@mit.edu>
or http://web.mit.edu/hemisphere/feedback/
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