[mgj-discuss] GW University Outreach opportunities

[Hope Chu]

GW just sent this to me... Are we already involved in 
this? Perhaps a
good opportunity to pass out flyers?



---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Students for Fair Trade <gwsft at gwu.edu>
Date: Apr 1, 2005 1:47 PM
Subject: Global Week of Action Events at George Washington 
University
To: Shayna Harris <SHarris at oxfamamerica.org>, Chelsea 
Voake
<chelzv at gmail.com>, Benjamin Himmelfarb <bh07 at gwu.edu>, 
Lina Musayev
<linam at gwu.edu>, Brian Rawson <BRawson at oxfamamerica.org>, 
Isaac
Grody-Patinkin <isaac at nyu.edu>, Kris Notaro 
<krisnotaro at yahoo.com>




Global Week of Action at George Washington University

  

Monday April 11th: Fair Trade Kick-off Event for the 
Global Week of Action

When: 12-4PM

Where: At University Quad on 20th and H street

What: Come join GW Students for Fair for music, open-mic 
and public
outreach to kick off the Global week of action.

  

This event is free and open to the public.

  

~If your organization would like to be apart of this event 
or you are
interested in taking advantage of the open mic, please 
contact Elena
Sierra at sierraem at gwu.edu

TUESDAY APRIL 12th: NATIONAL SUPERMARKET CALL-IN DAY

When: 12-2pm in the Fair Trade Office

Where: Marvin Center on H and 21st street Room 410

What: Join us in calling supermarkets on April 12th to ask 
for more
Fair Trade on their shelves so that we can have a bigger 
impact and
reach more US consumers.

This event is free and open to the public
Tuesday April 12th: Fair Trade Movie Night

When: 5PM-7: 30PM

Where: Marvin Center on 21st and H street Room 311

What: Come and watch documentaries about globalization and 
fair trade
  
This event is free and open to the public

  
Wednesday April 13th: CAFTA: A fork in the road:
How international trade and debt are shaping the path to 
development.

  

Co-sponsored by: Alliance for Responsible Trade, 
Interfaith Working
Group on Trade and Investment, Jubilee USA Network, 
Mobilization for
Global Justice, Stop CAFTA Coalition, United Students for 
Fair Trade,
and the US Gender and Trade Network (Coalitions not yet 
signed on:
Labor and environmental orgs (AFL-CIO, Sierra Club), El 
Salvador
International Network, Citizen's Trade Campaign)

  

Time: 6:30-8:00 p.m.

Location: United Church on the corner of 20th and G St. NW

Metro stops: Farragut West Metro (18th & I) or Foggy
Bottom - GWU (??)

             No parking on premises (add location of a few 
near by lots)

  

Interfaith and people of conscious peace vigil procession 
following
the panel with service at nearby park at 8:30

  

SPEAKERS

· Otton Solis, Minister of Planning and the Economy under
the Oscar Arias administration and Citizen's Action Party 
Costa Rican
Presidential candidate

· Mark Weisbrot, Center for Economic and Policy Research

· Lori Wallach, Public Citizen

· A representative from Guatemala

  

BIOS

Otton Solis is an economist and has been a frequent and 
constructive
critic of Costa Rica's participation in the Central 
American Free
Trade Agreement with the United Status. Solis served as 
Minister of
Planning and the Economy under the Oscar Arias 
administration and
founded the Citizen's Action Party as a third party 
movement in Costa
Rica with a platform emphasizing social and environmental 
equity. In
the last presidential election Solis garnered 17% of the 
vote and his
party took seats in the legislative Assembly. He has 
announced his
intention to run again, and will again promote a "green" 
agenda. Mr.
Solis also teaches at the University of Costa Rica and has 
a
postgraduate degree in economics from the University of 
Manchester
(UK). Mr. Solis served as the President of the 
Interamerican Economic
and Social Council, of the Organization of American States 
from 1987
to 1988. He is currently a member of the Committee of 
Experts on
Public Administration of the United Nations and of the 
Millennium
Ecosystem Assessment team.

  

Bishop Alvaro Ramazzini Imeri who heads the Diocese of San 
Marcos,
Guatemala has been an active advocate for Guatemala's 
indigenous
people and for land reform. He also has opposed a 
Canadian-U.S. firm's
creation of a gold mine where many indigenous people live 
in San
Marcos. The World Bank's International Finance Corp. lent 
Glamis Gold
$45 million to develop the mine. Guatemalan authorities 
killed two
protesters during a Jan. 11 protest outside the proposed 
mine site,
according to a Jan. 26 action alert issued by the 
Geneva-based
Franciscans International.

  

Lori Wallach is the Director of Public Citizen's Global 
Trade Watch
(GTW). Launched by Wallach in 1995, GTW is a leader in the 
global
citizen movement for fair trade and investment policy. 
Wallach has
represented the progressive critique of corporate 
globalization before
Congressional committees, foreign parliaments, and 
government
agencies, national and international conferences and in 
frequent media
appearances. Wallach has contributed to numerous 
anthologies on
globalization and in 2004 co-authored Whose Trade 
Organization: A
Comprehensive Guide to the WTO, released by The New Press 
and
distributed by Norton Books. A graduate of Wellesley 
College and
Harvard Law School, Wallach is also a founding board 
member of the
Citizens Trade Campaign and the International Forum on 
Globalization.

  

This event is free and open to the public

  
Wednesday April 13th: National CAFTA Call-in Day

When: 12-4pm

Where: Marvin Center on H and 21st street in Room 410

What: National Global Week of Action Call-in your 
congressmen.

  

This event is free and open to the public

  

Saturday April 16th: Mid-Atlantic United Students for Fair 
Trade Meeting

When: 10am-5pm

Where: Marvin Center on H and 21st street, Room 314

What: The gathering of all Students for Fair Trade 
chapters from the
Mid-Atlantic.

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