[IPSM] March 17- Mexican Social justice Activist to speak in Vancouver

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Militarization, Migration, and Building Alternatives
in
 
Mexico’s South
 
Onesimo Hidalgo, Activist from Chiapas, Mexico
 
Speaks in Vancouver March 17,2007
 

February 28, 2007
 
Mark your calendars now and plan to attend this report
from the front lines of globalization. Hear Mexican
social justice activist Onesimo Hidalgo on the impacts
of “free trade” deals on the lives of indigenous
people in Mexico’s South.
 
Where: Harbour Centre Simon Fraser University Downtown
Vancouver Campus
 
             515 W. Hastings room # 2270
 
When:  3:30 PM, March 17, 2007
 
 Onesimo Hidalgo is the co-director of CIEPAC, the
Center for Economic Research and Social Action in San
Cristobal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. His visit to
Vancouver is part of a speaking tour to the United
States and Canada. The purpose of this month-long
speaking tour is to strengthen the cross border social
justice movement by developing networks and strategies
in common and to promote sustainable alternatives to
the current economic model.
 
 
 
Hidalgo has wide-ranging experience in indigenous
community organizing in Chiapas, as well as in
mobilizing Mexican and international support for just
economic and social policies. Hidalgo has worked for
almost twenty years with indigenous communities in
Chiapas. The programs he has developed in research and
education address the effects of the social change
taking place in Mexico on men and women’s lives. He
will speak about the social forces impacting Mexico’s
south, among them the impact of free trade and the
Plan Puebla Panama, immigration, militarization in
Chiapas, the recent strategies of the  EZLN and their
Good Government process, as well as the Other
Campaign’s peaceful civil resistance. This event is
sponsored locally by the BC Teacher’s Federation, the
BC Government Employee’s Union, the Canadian Labour
Congress, Co-Development Canada and CUPE BC. For
information, contact Tom Sandborn at 604 224 1182 or
tos at infinet.net  
 
 
 
CIEPAC is a non-profit institution based in San
Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas that accompanies the
social movements across Mexico and Meso-America as
well as the global struggles that seek to build a more
democratic world.  Because of its focus on organizing
at a grassroots level, CIEPAC receives frequent
invitations from a wide spectrum of organizations in
Chiapas, the rest of Mexico, and other parts of the
world, to carry out workshops on the current economic,
political and social situation. In the last days of
February, CIEPAC activists have been subjected to
death threats and police intimidation in Chiapas
 
 
 
 For more information about CIEPAC and their programs
and activities, please visit their website:
www.ciepac.org 

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