[Lasnetmail] Final Program Latin American and Asia Pacific Solidairty Gathering Melbourne October 21-22 2006

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Second Latin American & Asia Pacific Solidarity Gathering
21-22 October, Melbourne-Australia
Building bridges, Organising globally
Melbourne Trades Hall, 
Corner of Lygon and Victoria Streets, Carlton

A brief introduction of the international guests attending the gathering:

Shamima Ali - Director of Fiji's Women's Crisis Centre and part of the secretariat for the Pacific Network Against Violence Against Women. Shamima is a long-time activist against sexual and domestic violence in the Pacific. 

Gissel Gonzales - A co-ordinator of 'the coalition in defence of water and life' in Bolivia, which not only has helped topple governments but recently was instrumental in the election of Evo Morales, the first indigenous president of Bolivia. 

Maria de Lourdes Vicente da Silva - 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. 

Rosa del Carmen Curihuentro LLancaleo -  a journalist and a Mapuche (the Indigenous Community of Chile and Argentina) who is heavily involved in the struggles against theft of their lands by trans-national corporations.  

Chaz Doherty - a representative of the Tu Hoe Nation. Chaz is an activist as well as a negotiator between the Maori and the New Zealand government.

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.

Program / Programa

Saturday/ Sábado 

8.30: Registration / A registrarse

9.30: Opening ceremony / Ceremonia de Apertura
In the New Council Chambers.
Joy Murphy - Wurundjeri Elder, with Kutcha Edwards doing music. 

10-12.30: First Gathering: Social movements: inspire, resist, create 
Primer Encuentro: Movimientos sociales: inspirando, resistiendo y creando  
In the New Council Chambers
Chairperson: Marisol Salinas (LASNET)
Speakers: 
Robbie Thorpe - Kurnai Nation. 
Gissel Gonzales (Bolivia) 
Maria de Lourdes Vicente da Silva (Brazil) 
Shamima Ali (Fiji) 
Martin Kingham - CFMEU (Construction Division) Australia. 
Heriberto Salas (Mexico)
Chaz Doherty (Tu Hoe, Maori, Aotearoa/New Zealand) 
- Ko te whakatika te pono ko te aroha (The sincerest expression of love is justice). 
Rosa del Carmen Curihuentro Llancaleo  (Mapuche, Chile)

12.30: Lunch (by donation) / Almuerzo (donación)
Lentil as Anything will provide vegetarian/vegan food.in the bar.  
Lunch will be accompanied by some delightful radical poetry by Jo Mundy, Panman and Edward Burger, as well as some satirical songs by the Red Hot Mamas. 

2 - 4: Forums / Foros  

Workers organising against neo-liberalism
Personas trabajadoras organizándose contra el neoliberalismo
In the New Council Chambers
Lucho Riquelme (LASNET) - Chairperson
Speakers: 
Kevin Bracken (Maritime Union of Australia)  
Cindy Connole (Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Union) 
- On the LHMU's Clean Start campaign. 
Gissel Gonzales (Bolivia)
Samanthi Gundawardana (Melbourne University) 
- Organizing in the Sri Lankan Free Trade Zones. 
Julius Roe (Australian Manufacturing Workers Union) 
Bonnie Zuidland (Anarcho-Syndicalist Federation)
- The general strike: a real alternative 

Defending memory in times of forgetting 
Defendiendo la memoria en tiempo de olvido
In the Annex
Represenatative from Amnesty International - Chairperson
Speakers: 
Heriberto Salas (Mexico)
Robbie Thorpe - Kurnai Nation. 
May Kotsakis (Phillipines Australia Solidarity Association)
- Killing and Abduction of Political Opponents- A State's Anti-Terror Operation.
Marta Iñiguez de Heredia (LASNET) 
Human Rights and social change: the interplaying of concepts for activists in Latin America and the Asia-Pacific region. 
Manuel Morales (El Salvador)
Lucho Riquelme (LASNET)
- The unfinished struggle for justice in Latin America. 

Questioning colonial relations
Cuestionando nuevas  relaciones coloniales
In the Evatt Room
Chairperson: Mara (LASNET)
Speakers: 
Larry Walsh - Taunguwurrung Nation.
Maria de Lourdes Vicente da Silva (Brazil) 
Mimi L - Hasani - an Iraqi migrant. 
Bill Deller (National Tertiary Education Union) 
- A token Gubba? 
Chaz Doherty (Aotearoa/New Zealand)
- An indigenous perspective from Aotearoa

The global justice movement
Demandando justicia global
In Meeting Room One
Steven Slaughter (Deakin University) Chairperson
Speakers:  
Cam Walker (Friends of the Earth)
Rosa del Carmen Curihuentro Llancaleo (Mapuche, Chile)  
Carlene Wilson (International Campaign against Coca Cola) 
Liz Turner (G20 Campaign) 
Margaret Riley (Industrial Workers of the World)
Andrew Fleming (Melbourne University)
- Anarchism and the anti-globalisation movement

4 - 6: Second Gathering: Militarization and the encroaching terror
          Segundo Encuentro: La militarizacion y la imposicion del terror
          In the New Council Chambers
Marta Iñiguez de Heredia - Chairperson
Speakers: 
Jacob Grech 
- Australia's pivotal role in regional militarism. 
Rosa del Carmen Curihuentro LLancaleo (Mapuche, Chile) 
Moses Waqa (Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (Pacific)) 
- The Militarization of the Pacific: Error in Form and Corruptions of Substance.
Shamima Ali (Fiji)
Reyvi Marinas (Migrante Melbourne) 
-US-Aus Aid, Militarization and its impacts on Peace Building and Democracy in the Phillipines. 
Heriberto Salas (Mexico)
Maria de Lourdes Vicente da Silva (Brazil)

7:00pm Dinner and Party (by donation) / cena y fiesta (donación) ($5 party)
Vegetarian food by Food not Bombs and there will be a BBQ. . 
Dinner will be followed by a party with.music by:  Milk - Australian Folk, Inka Marka - Andean Folk and there will also be Kurdish and Latin American Salsa bands performing. 

The LASNET raffle will be drawn during the dinner at 7pm.  

Sunday / Domingo 

10: Registration / A registrarse

11- 12.30:  Third gathering: First Nations struggles 
                 Tercer Encuentro: Los pueblos originarios y sus luchas
     In the New Council Chambers
Chairperson: Pablo Brait (LASNET)
Speakers: 
Robbie Thorpe - Kurnai Nation. 
Chaz Doherty (Maori, Aotearoa/New Zealand)
- Ko te whakatika te pono ko te aroha (The sincerest expression of love is justice)
Nick Chesterfiled (West Papua) 
- Cry the Morning Star: West Papuan struggle and identity in the face of Annihilation.
Rosa del Carmen Curihuentro LLancaleo (Mapuche, Chile) 
Mo Waqa (Fiji)
-The Search for Unity in Diversity - the Quest for Visionary Leadership.

12:30 - 1:30: Lunch (by donation) / almuerzo  (donación)
Lentil as Anything will prepare a vegetarian lunch in the bar. 
An Indonesian band will also play. 

1:30 - 3:  Forums / Foros 

Organising against violence against women
Contra la violencia de género
In the New Council Chambers
Rebecca Pinkstone (LASNET) - Chairperson
Speakers: 
Shameema Ali (Fiji)
Rodney Vlais (Friends of the Earth) 
- How men can take responsibility to challenge violence against women? 
Katie Pace
-- How is our failure to take feminism seriously inhibiting our activism?
Stephen Fisher (Chisholm Institute) 
- Working with men to become advocates for women's safety. 
 
Peace building and conflict resolution
Estrategias para la paz y la resolución de conflictos 
In the Annex
David Glanz (Unity for Peace) - Chairperson
Speakers: 
Renata Kamenera and Innam Barakat 
- A Jewish and Lebanese Woman on creating friendships across the divide.  
Manuel Morales (El Salvador)
Anthony Kelly (Peace Brigades International) 
- Defending Political Space: the work of PBI in Latin America and Asia. 
Samanthi Gunawandana and Mohan Bagwandas (Sri Lanka)
-The Sri Lankan Diaspora and Conflict: Building Pathways to understanding among the Australian Tamil and Sinhalese Communities. 
Heriberto Salas (Mexico) 

Alternative media   
Medios de comunicación alternativos
In the Evatt Room 
Libby Jamieson (3CR ) - Chairperson
Speakers: 
Chris Richards (New Internationalist Magazine)
- No Sounds of Silence
Gissel Gonzales (Bolivia) 
Pier Moro (3CR)
- Thirty years old; where to now?
Representative from Melbourne Indymedia 
- Creating grassroots media
Chaz Doherty - (Aotearoa/New Zealand) 

Social ecology   
Medio ambiente y lucha social 
In Meeting Room One
Gonzalo Para (LASNET) - Chairperson 
Speakers:
Jim Green (Friends of the Earth)
Rosa del Carmen Curihuentro LLancaleo (Mapuche, Chile).
Anthony Amis (Friends of the Earth) 
- T.D. Tuna: the social and ecological impacts of the Tuna industry in Northern New Guinea. 
      Maria de Lourdes Vicente da Silva (Brazil) 
Susan Park (Deakin University)
- The World Bank's environmental policies in Chile and West Papua. 

3 - 5: Fourth Gathering - Social Movement Unionism; Workers organising against neoliberalism. 
Cuarto Encuentro: El movimiento social y la lucha de las personas que trabajan
In the New Council Chambers 
Colm McNaughton (LASNET) - Chairperson
Speakers:  
Verity Burgmann (Melbourne University) 
- Contextualising Social Movement Unionism: a Global Perspective.
Gissel Gonzalez (Bolivia)
David Kerin (Union Solidarity) 
- On the practice of Union Solidarity. 
Maria de Lourdes Vicente Da Silva (Brazil)
Mark Mattcote (Australian Asia Worker Links)

5.15 - 6.45 pm: Fifth Gathering - Realising many tomorrows 
                          Quinto Encuentro: Realizando nuestros sueños
    In the New Council Chambers
Lucho Riquelme (LASNET) - Chairperson
Speakers: 
Emma Rush (Australia Institute) 
- The importance of rejecting consumerism. 
Heriberto Salas (Mexico)
Colm McNaughton (LASNET) 
-On the changing nature of class society and challenges facing the emergent global working class.  
Dave Kerin (Union Solidarity)
- Unions facilitating the transition towards a New Economy 
Jorge Jorquera (Latin American Activist)
      - The Bolivarian Project.
Rosa del Carmen Curihuentro LLancaleo (Mapuche, Chile). 
  
7- 8: Closing ceremony / Ceremonia de clausura
          In the New Council Chambers 
Marisol Salinas (LASNET) - Chairperson.
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