Spanish for Activists Camp, July 16,17, & 18 2010, in beautiful Ithaca, NY
Tuesday, 01 de June de 2010
Join us this July 16, 17, & 18 for the ninth annual Jolie Rickman Spanish for Activists Camp in beautiful Ithaca, NY! We will be camping under the stars at the spacious Foundation of Light retreat center. http://www.foundation-of-light.org/
We will be having immersion Spanish classes and workshops on different Latin American and environmental topics. This year we will be featuring workshops on socialism in Venezuela, Haiti after the earthquake, and the fight against gold mining in El Salvador. We will also discuss the connections between resource extraction in Latin America and the extraction of natural gas in the Marsalas Shale here in New York. There will be scrumptious vegetarian and vegan food, and of course singing by the campfire and dancing!
Contact Phil Josselyn: 917.214.3479 (NY CISPES) or email
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EMERGENCY TEACH-IN
The Obama Doctrine?:
Latin America After the Honduran Coup
Toward democracy as in El Salvador, or back to the past.
Wednesday, July 15
7:30 pm
The Brecht Forum
West Greenwich Village
451 West Street (that's the West Side Highway) between Bank & Bethune Streets
Featuring:
Audelia Guadalupe Lopez de Kleutgens, Roberto Lovato, and Andres Conteris
As the people of Honduras struggle to hang on to their democracy and
the rest of Latin America and the world condemn the military coup, will
the US accept the status quo? Or will there be real pressure to restore
constitutional order? Will the region move further toward democracy as
in El Salvador, where the FMLN just took Presidential power through the
March elections, or are we moving back toward an era of repressive
military rule. Learn about the different political forces at work in
Honduras and how they are playing out through the period leading up to
and including the coup. Hear about the consequences for the rest of the
region and what people are hoping to accomplish through the recent
victory in El Salvador. Discuss what the role of the United States has
been and what we can do here to support democracy in Central America.
Roberto
Lovato is also a frequent contributor to The Nation and the Huffington
Post and his work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the San
Francisco Chronicle, Salon, Der Spiegel, Utne Magazine, La Opinion, and
other national and international media outlets. He is a contributing
Associate Editor with New America Media and can be read at http://ofamerica.wordpress.com/
Audelia
Lopez is a coordinating member of the FMLN's National Women's
Secretariat, the body within the party that works for the advancement
of female political leadership and the vindication of women's rights.
She is also the FMLN's Adjunct Coordinator for the department of
Chalatenango in the north of El Salvador, working on strategic
development with Mayors and the FMLN's local organizing efforts, and a
Substitute Deputy to the National Legislative Assembly.
Andres
Thomas Conteris, founder of Democracy Now! en Espanol, serves as the
Director of the Program on the Americas of Nonviolence International
and is active with the International Network for the Abolition of
Foreign Military Bases. He is a filmmaker with Raven's Call Productions
and Co-Producer of the award-winning documentary "Hidden in Plain
Sight."
Co-Sponsors: Committee in Solidarity with the People of
El Salvador, North America Congress on Latin America and Left Turn
Magazine
