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Protest Colombian Minister! |
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by Tom Mackaman
Email: tmackaman (nospam) yahoo.com (verified) |
04 Oct 2004
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The Colombian finance minister, an architect of the country's current economic policies, will be speaking on campus tomorrow. As many will know, scores of Colombian trade union activists have been murdered over the
past few years. A group of us will be picketing this guy's talk tomorrow;
please consider joining us. The talk begins at 3:30 and we will start
picketing about twenty minutes or so before that. We will be gathering in front of the International Studies Building which is on Fifth near Daniel. |
(forwarded message from Jim Barrett)
The Colombian finance minister, an architect of the country's current economic policies, will be speaking on campus tomorrow. As many will know, scores of Colombian trade union activists have been murdered over the
past few years. A group of us will be picketing this guy's talk tomorrow;
please consider joining us. The talk begins at 3:30 and we will start
picketing about twenty minutes or so before that. We will be gathering in front of the International Studies Building which is on Fifth near Daniel. |
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Re: Protest Columbian Minister! |
by Tom Mackaman
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04 Oct 2004
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Correction!
This is at the PIne Room of the Illini Union at 3:30 pm, not at International Studies.
Tom |
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Re: Protest Colombian Minister! |
by Phil
pstinard (nospam) hotmail.com (unverified) |
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04 Oct 2004
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People should also be in the audience to ask hard questions about the Uribe government's policies. |
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Re: Protest Colombian Minister! |
by Phil
pstinard (nospam) hotmail.com (unverified) |
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04 Oct 2004
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Here's the full schedule for the Colombian finance minister's campus visit:
Colombian finance minister to lecture on Latin American economic policy
Melissa Mitchell, News Editor
217-333-5491, melissa (at) uiuc.edu
10/1/04
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Alberto Carrasquilla, the minister of finance of Colombia, will present a seminar and lecture on Oct. 5 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
“Does the Washington Consensus Still Hold? New challenges for Economic Policy Making in Latin America” is the topic of the informal discussion and seminar, which begins at 10 a.m. in 101 International Studies Building, 910 S. Fifth St., Champaign. Seats for the seminar may be reserved on a first-come-first-serve basis by calling 333-3182 or by sending a message.
At 3:30 p.m., he will discuss “Economic Reform Under Political Constraints: the Role of Social Policy”; the talk will take place in the Pine Lounge of the Illini Union, 1401 W. Green St. Urbana.
Carrasquilla, who also is a professor of economics and former dean at Universidad de los Andes in Bogatá, has held high-ranking positions in the Inter-American Development Bank and the Banco de la República, Colombia.
His visit is to the U. of I. is sponsored by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, in cooperation with the Jorge-Lemann Chair in Latin American Economics. |
