[Lasnetmail] Public Talk and Lasnet get-together with Ecuadorian activist Carlos Zorilla - next week!

[LASNET]

Dear all,

As part of a conference being put on at RMIT's Hamilton campus, the 
Globalism Research Centre (which I work for) has brought over to Australia a 
particularly ace activist from Ecuador - Carlos Zorilla - who's been 
organising community resistance to large-scale mining in the Intag region of 
Northern Ecuador, home to the very precious cloud forests. The community 
resistance and direct action against the proposed copper mine has been 
largely successful to date, but the struggle is still continuing.

Because we didn't want Carlos to come over here just to talk to a bunch of 
champagne lefty academics, a couple of us have teamed up with Lasnet (Latin 
American Solidarity Network) and Friends of the Earth to organise a public 
talk and some other events to allow Carlos to talk to, and with, other 
activists. Also present will be Glen  Kuecker, founder of the Intag 
Solidarity Network  and Professor of Latin American History at De Pauw 
University in the US.

So, it would be really fantastic if people came along to one or both of the 
events on next week:

On Monday 23rd, Lasnet is organising a 'tertulia', or get-together, at 7pm 
at the FoE office on Smith St. There will be talking and drinking and eating 
and (maybe) dancing, and it'll be a great chance to show solidarity with an 
important struggle in the region.  If you'd like to come  please RSVP to 
Lucho at riquelmel at bigpond.com, or 0400 914 944 so we can organise food and 
drinks (feel free to bring your own drinks).

Then on Tuesday night (24th June, 6pm at Trades Hall), Carlos and Glen will 
be talking at Trades Hall, in the Bella Union bar (see poster attached), on 
the theme of "Defending Community and Ecology in Ecuador".

For more info on the struggle in Ecuador, go to: 
http://www.intagsolidarity.org/ and http://www.latinlasnet.org/node/211

Hope to see you all there,

x Tori


Community Sustainability Program
Globalism Research Centre &
Global Cities Institute
E: victoria.stead at rmit.edu.au
T: +61 3 9925 1978


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