SPECIAL SEMINAR

’Latin American Movements Today - Mexico, Chile, Brazil’

Heriberto Salas, 'People for the Defence of the Earth' and 'the other
campaign', Mexico + Rosa del Carmen Curihuentro, journalist and Mapuche Indigenous activist, Chile + Maria de Lourdes Vicente da Silva,
Landless Workers Movement (MST), Brazil

When: 3 November, 6.30pm
Where: Building 2, Room 429, 6.30pm
Access: by donation, disabled access
Welcome: Penny O'Donnell, UTS
Organiser: Latin American Solidarity Network, www.latinlasnet.org
Supporters: Research Initiative on International Activism (UTS), Union
Aid Abroad (Apheda)
Info: Lasnet 0415 726 951 + Riia 9514 2713

From the foundation of Via Campesina in 1993 and the Zapatista
uprising a year later in 1994, to the birth of the World Social Forum
in 2001 and the current electoral swing against neo-liberalism, Latin
America has been a crucible for international movements against market
globalism. This Forum brings together three members of these movements
- from Mexico, Chile and Brazil - to share stories and insights.

Heriberto Salas is a represenative from 'the people for the Defence of
the Earth' which has spearheaded the resistance against forced removal
of the community to make way for a new airport in Mexico City. Recently
this movement has engaged with 'the other campaign' initiated by the
Zapatistas and been met by massive police repression and killings.

Rosa del Carmen Curihuentro is a journalist and a Mapuche Indigenous
activist who is heavily involved in the struggle against the theft of
Mapuche lands by transnational corporations in the South of Chile.

Maria de Lourdes Vicente da Silva is an organiser with the Landless
Workers Movement (MST) in Brazil, which has seen the distribution of
millions of acres of land to landless workers across Brazil.