Major Events
Campaigns
Special Studies
Books
Videos/Movies
Newsletter
Travel

Major Events

June 19-July 7: 19th IFCO/Pastors for Peace Friendshipment to Cuba (IFCO, 212-926-5757, www.pastorsforpeace.org).
Oct. 3-6: Radical Women Conference: The Persistent Power of Socialist Feminism. Speakers from Central America, China, Australia and the US, plus interactive workshops. Discussions about building independent grassroots movements for revolutionary change, and more. Women’s Building, San Francisco. Register at www.RadicalWomen.org. 206-722-6057.
Oct. 7-12: Third Social Forum of the Americas, Guatemala City (Rights Action, info@rightsaction.org).
Oct. 15: Final day of the UN Peacekeepers’ mandate to occupy Haiti. Will this be renewed?
Nov. 21-23: Close the SOA – Convergence on Ft. Benning, Georgia! (SOA Watch, 202-234-3440, www.soaw.org).

Campaigns

• Haiti: LASC/HAC’s National Campaign on Haiti – see article, above.
• Respect for Democracy/Close the NED – see article, above (Alliance for Global Justice, 202-544-9355, afgj@afgj.org).

Special Studies

The Forgotten Border: Migration and human rights at Mexico’s southern border, $4 (Latin America Working Group [LAWG], www.lawg.org)
Ready, Aim, Foreign Policy, $4 (LAWG, as above).

Books

Latin American Social Movements in the Twenty-first Century:  Resistance, Power, and Democracy. Richard Stahler-Sholk, Harry E. Vanden, and Glen David Kuecker (eds.),
Rowman & Littlefield, March 2008, 384 pages. $34.95, paper.
ISBN 0-7425-5647-6 / 978-0-7425-5647-8
A useful website: Latin American Review of Books (lwww.latamrob.com).

Videos/Movies

Aristide and the Endless Revolution, a documentary by Nicholas Rossier, including the 2004 coup, Paul Farmer, Ex-President Aristide.

Newsletter

Signs of the Times in the Americas: Perspectives on corporate globalization, the war, torture, immigration, Katrina and news from Latin America and the Caribbean. Contact EPICA, admin@epica.org, or browse an online copy at www.epica.org

 

Travel (see Codes below)

Border: Organize your own group (BL); 7/7-8/2 (BL, Globalization and migration); 8/13-17 (BL, delegation for people of faith); 8/13-17 (BL, education delegation); 12/18-22 (BL, as above).
Bolivia: 9/12-22 (MITF, social movements, Cochabamba, La Paz, Santa Cruz; 11/11-21 (WP delegation to Bolivia).
Brazil: 8/3-17 (MITF, culture, environment, justice, landless workers’ movement).
Colombia: 8/2-16 (FOR, SOAW, Human rights, Peace Community of San Jose de Apartado; 8/3-13 (WP, Plan Colombia, human rights, war as “narco-terror,” US policy); 8/24-9/3 (WP, SOAW, 8th Day Center, EPICA, Bilateral Free Trade Agreements, human rights, repression); 9/27-10/7 (CPT, Bogata, Micohumado, conflict, non-violence/humanitarian spaces; 10/18-28 (WP and GX, globalization and coffee, free vs. fair trade, farmers); 10/3-26 (CPT, see 9/27).
Cuba: 10/11-18 (CT, health care professionals); 10/28-11/7 (CT, Ballet National de Cuba 60th anniversary); 11/8-29 (CT, ESL Cuba volunteers, English as a Second Language; 11/22-12/1 (CT, natural and historical Cuba); 11/22-29 (CT, Dance in Cuba); 12/27-1/3 (Teachers, introduction to Cuba); 12/27-1/3 (CT, 50th anniversary of the Revolution); 12/28-1/4 (CT, luxury discovery and adventure).
El Salvador: 11/29-12/9 (GATE, cultural immersion).
Guatemala: 10/7-12 (NISGUA, 3rd Social Forum of the Americas; 10/7-12 (RA, 3rd Social Forum of the Americas); 1/6-18 (CGE, Maya People and Culture).
Honduras: 7/7-12 (RA, education and activists, the indigenous Garifuna, resistance and development, Tecucigalpa and rural).
Mexico: Want to coordinate one? (WP, ken@witnessforpeace.org); 7/12-20 (CGE, globalizing women’s studies; pedagogy and praxis; 8/3-13 (CGE, gender, migration, globalization: women’s Studies Seminar); 10/31-11/9 (Borderlinks, Chiapas, global economy and migration).
Nicaragua: 7/1-11 (WP, Nicaragua: Casualty of the War Against the Poor; 7/13-23 (NS, coffee cooperativistas and 29th Celebration of El Triunfo 1979, eco-turismo – green work, history, alternative development); 7/14-28 (WP, teen delegation); 11/15-22 (CGS, democracy in the age of globalization).
Venezuela: 8/9-19 (MITF, Bolivarian Revolution, Caracas, Barquismieto, rural, political, economic); 11/11-21 (WP, delegation to Venezuela); 12/3-13 (WP, Venezuela and the global economy.

CODES:

BL: Borderlinks, 520-628-8263, education@borderlinks.org
CGE: Center for Global Education, Augsburg College. 612-330-1159; globaled@augsburg.edu.
CPT: Christian Peacemaker Teams, 773-277-0253, www.cpt.org.
CT: Cuba Tours 2008, Cuba Education Tours, Vancouver, 877-687-3817, www.cubafriends.com.
FOR: Fellowship of Reconciliation, 510-763-1403,  liza@igc.org.
GATE: Global Awareness Through Experience. 608-791-5283 or www.gate-travel.org.
MITF: Marin Interfaith Task Force, 415-924-3227, www.mitfamericas.org.
NISGUA: Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala, 510-238-8400, www.nisgua.org.
NS: Nicaragua Solidarity, 773-973-6529, nscchicago@igc.org.
RA: Rights Action, 860-352-2448, www.rightsaction.org.
SOAW: School of the Americas Watch,
WP: Witness for Peace. 202-547-6112, www.witnessforpeace.org, erik@witnessforpeace.org.