[mgj-discuss] Speakers' Tour on Globalization, World Bank, IMF

[Hope Chu]

***Please forward to interested parties***

The 50 Years Is Enough Network is organizing a speaking 
tour on globalization, war, and economic and military 
violence to take place in late September/early October 
2005.  

This year?s speaking tour builds on the success of 2004?s 
Global Justice Teach-In Tour 
(http://www.50years.org/cms/action/apr2004/events), which 
brought speakers from South Africa, Tanzania, the 
Dominican Republic, El Salvador, and Texas (US) to over 15 
cities in 9 states.  This year we're hoping to expand the 
tour and would like your help!  

We will be bringing activists and organizers from the 
Global South to speak on their experiences in the struggle 
for justice.  We also expect that speakers will be able to 
talk about the current model of globalization and what 
that means for people in their community, the World Bank 
and the IMF, "free" trade, privatization of essential 
services, and other issues that we all face.

In addition, we are hoping to provide speakers from the 
antiwar/peace movement.  They will be able to speak on 
Paul Wolfowitz ? a key architect of the invasion and 
occupation of Iraq who was recently selected by the Bush 
administration to be the next president of the World Bank 
? and on the militarization of US foreign policy.  

We are approaching you either because you have organized 
events with us before, have expressed interest in our 
work, or because we believe your organization would be 
interested in hosting a stop on this tour.  

Please respond to this email if you are interested in 
bringing speakers to your community, or if you know of 
others who might be interested.  Your response is not 
binding; we are just trying to gauge interest at this 
point.  You may reach me by email or phone if you have any 
further questions.  

In Solidarity,
hope chu
Program Associate

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