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> Subject: FTAA Teach-in with Camille Chambers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (roona?)
Mon Apr 9 08:55:30 2001
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From: "roona?" <rray@fas.harvard.edu>
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Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 08:54:17 -0400
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> Subject: FTAA Teach-in with Camille Chambers
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> SHARE, the Harvard Progressive Student Labor Movement and the Haitian
> Student Alliance present...
>
> A TEACH-IN ON THE FREE TRADE AGREEMENT OF THE AMERICAS
>
> Did you know?
> *International leaders are negotiating a trade agreement called
> the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas that will extend NAFTA
> to all of Latin and South America, excluding Cuba?
> *Thousands of people will be going to Quebec to protest the next
> FTAA negotiations on April 20th?
>
> Are you wondering?
> *Why are the citizens of two continents so concerned about the FTAA?
> *Why won't international leaders release the text of a trade
> agreement which will affect people from Canada to Argentina?
> *How is globalization affecting developing countries?
> *And who is Lawrence Summers?
>
> Don't miss:
> -CAMILLE CHAMBERS-
> economist, policy advisor, former political prisoner,
> life-long grassroots organizer, and Professor
> Economics at the State University of Haiti
>
> who will stop at Harvard during his two-day trip to the United
> States to present...
>
> -HAITI STOLEN-
> Thursday, April 12th, 3:00PM
> Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall
> Harvard University
>
> Meet this international activist and learn about these important global
> issues from someone who's witnessed them from the other side.
>
> Camille Chambers has repeatedly taken a leadership role in questioning
> international development projects. He was imprisoned and tortured for
> organizing resistance to the military dictatorship in Haiti. An authority
> on issues of Haiti's external debt, the effects of free trade on Haiti's
> food security, and the complexities of privatization, Chambers has been at
> the forefront of international economic debate. He is also the Executive
> Secretary of PAPDA, the Haitian Advocacy Platform for Alternative
> Development. PAPDA is a grassroots coalition that provides technology,
> education, agricultural strategies and other resources around alternative
> methods of economic development.
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