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[OPIRG-EVENTS] Poverty & Repression Tour - Panel Discussion Mon. April 9, 7 p.m.




WHAT: "FTAA, Poverty and Repression" Speaking Tour  "Free trade in Central America and the poor majority"
                                 
  A panel discussion followed by questions with Berta Caceres, Dan Fireside, Jamie Kneen from Mining Watch, Roberto Miranda who will speak on Guatemala and Pablo Leal who will speak on Colombia. (bios for Berta and Dan follow, sorry to others - they were not as readily available !)

WHERE: Alumni Hall University of Ottawa
WHEN: Monday April 9, 2001 7 p.m. 
This event is wheelcahair accessible and admission is free although donations will be accepted to help cover the costs of these events.
For more info. check out the website: www.flora.org/ftaa or call Paul at 761-1724

Bios of Berta and Dan follow;                                
  Berta Caceres, is a leader among the Lenca people in La Esperanza, department of Intibuca, Honduras. She is a co-founder of COPINH, the Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations, Honduras. COPINH organizes Lenca people and  others in the Departments of Intibuca, Lempira and La Paz, to work for their community-controlled development and human rights, with a particular focus on  indigenous and women's rights.

                                  Berta is active in CONPAH, the Confederation of Autochthonous Peoples of
                                  Honduras, a coalition of Indigenous and Afro-Caribbean organizations defending
                                  the rights of indigenous Honduran peoples. For three years, Rights Action has
                                  been a supporter of COPINH. The issues they confront include: large land-owners
                                  acting with impunity and running campesinos - ladino and indigenous - off their
                                  lands; logging companies illegally and abusively de-foresting large tracts of land;
                                  the possibility of a World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank - funded
                                  dam - El Tigre - being built near the Honduran - El Salvadoran border, possible
                                  displacing as many as 10,000 Honduran campesinos; a development economic
                                  model that marginalizes and/ or exploits the poor; seeking compensation for
                                  victims of human rights violations committed by the Honduran state.

                                  Dan Fireside, a project manager in Rights Action's Guatemala City office, has
                                  worked for peace and social justice in the Americas for over a decade.

                                  In addition to holding a B.A. in Latin American Studies from the University of
                                  California at Santa Cruz, he has worked and studied for several years in Peru,
                                  Guatemala, and Mexico, and has traveled extensively in the rest of Latin America.
                                  For over three years he worked at NISGUA, a Washington, DC-based human
                                  rights advocacy organization focusing on Guatemala. 

                                  He was also the Coordinator of CUSLAR, a local education and advocacy
                                  organization focusing on U.S. policy in Latin America, based in his hometown of
                                  Ithaca, New York.

is a leader among the Lenca people in La Esperanza, department
                                  of Intibuca, Honduras. She is a co-founder of COPINH, the Council of Popular
                                  and Indigenous Organizations, Honduras. COPINH organizes Lenca people and
                                  others in the Departments of Intibuca, Lempira and La Paz, to work for their
                                  community-controlled development and human rights, with a particular focus on
                                  indigenous and women's rights.

                                  Berta is active in CONPAH, the Confederation of Autochthonous Peoples of
                                  Honduras, a coalition of Indigenous and Afro-Caribbean organizations defending
                                  the rights of indigenous Honduran peoples. For three years, Rights Action has
                                  been a supporter of COPINH. The issues they confront include: large land-owners
                                  acting with impunity and running campesinos - ladino and indigenous - off their
                                  lands; logging companies illegally and abusively de-foresting large tracts of land;
                                  the possibility of a World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank - funded
                                  dam - El Tigre - being built near the Honduran - El Salvadoran border, possible
                                  displacing as many as 10,000 Honduran campesinos; a development economic
                                  model that marginalizes and/ or exploits the poor; seeking compensation for
                                  victims of human rights violations committed by the Honduran state.

                                  Dan Fireside, a project manager in Rights Action's Guatemala City office, has
                                  worked for peace and social justice in the Americas for over a decade.

                                  In addition to holding a B.A. in Latin American Studies from the University of
                                  California at Santa Cruz, he has worked and studied for several years in Peru,
                                  Guatemala, and Mexico, and has traveled extensively in the rest of Latin America.
                                  For over three years he worked at NISGUA, a Washington, DC-based human
                                  rights advocacy organization focusing on Guatemala. 

                                  He was also the Coordinator of CUSLAR, a local education and advocacy
                                  organization focusing on U.S. policy in Latin America, based in his hometown of
                                  Ithaca, New York.


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