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Oscar Olivera speaking tour 2006

8th July: WDM conference
Friends Meeting House, London

10th July: London
Spanish language meeting, 6.30pm, St Johns Church, Waterloo

11th July: Manchester
7.30pm, The Mechanics Institute, 103 Princess Road

12th July: Leeds
7pm, The Common Place, 23-25 Wharf Street

13th July: Glasgow
7pm, STUC building, 333 Woodlands Road

14th July: Brighton
7.30pm, Friends Meeting House, Ship Street

15th July: London
RAN Latin America conference

16th July: Tolpuddle Festival
12.30pm, TUC Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival

More info on the tour

Articles

Oscar Olivera, Spokesman of the People
Narco News, 2004

Bolivia Solidarity Campaign
Recent articles on Bolivia

Latin America: Social movements fight back

A Radical Activist Network conference, supported by War on Want

Download the leaflet

1pm-7pm, Saturday 15th July
3rd Floor, University of London Union, Malet Street, London WC1

Featuring Oscar Olivera
Spokesperson for the Coalition in Defence of Water and Life in Cochabamba, Bolivia

Plus
Hilary Wainwright, Red Pepper
Andy Higginbottom, Frontline Latin America
Sue Branford, Latin America Bureau and War on Want
Nick Buxton, trade activist based in La Paz, Bolivia
Paul Chatterton, Kiptik (Zapatista solidarity network)
Lies Craeynest, War on Want
Read more on the speakers

Whether it be indigenous rights movements, people fighting neoliberal economic policies or US domination of the continent, or the struggle for land and work rights, social movements are now embedded in the political landscape across Latin America. In Bolivia, popular mobilisation over the last six years has seen its electoral expression in the victory for Evo Morales and the Movement towards Socialism (MAS in its Spanish initials). This conference aims to examine how social movements in Latin America are organised, what they've won and their different relationships with the growing number of left leaning governments in the continent.

Oscar Olivera is spokesperson for the Coalition in Defense of Water and Life, ('La Coordinadora'), which was at the forefront of a popular uprising in Cochabamba in 2000 against US multinational Bechtel who had taken over their water systems as an IMF-imposed condition for Bolivian debt relief. He will be joined by a group of speakers who both write on and organise in solidarity with Latin American social movements.

Sessions and workshops will include:

Download the Conference Programme (pdf, 35kb)

Entry by donation (£2 suggested)
Organised by the Radical Activist Network, co-sponsored by War on Want


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