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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(34,34,34)">Globalization and
People's Movements – from Bangladesh to Colombia</span></b><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(34,34,34)"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><i><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(34,34,34)">A discussion
with </span></i><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(34,34,34)"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(34,34,34)">Aviva Chomsky, Anu
Muhammad, Ed Childs </span></b><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(34,34,34)"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(34,34,34)">Saturday January 11,
2014 3 PM</span></b><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(34,34,34)"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><a href="http://whereis.mit.edu/?selection=4&Buildings=go" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">MIT – Room 4-237</span></b></a><b><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br>
77 Mass Ave<br>
Cambridge, MA</span></b><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(34,34,34)"></span></p>
<i><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(34,34,34)">Free and Open to the Public<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/519529271488239/?previousaction=join&source=1" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(0,104,207)">https://www.facebook.com/events/519529271488239/?previousaction=join&source=1</span></a><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(34,34,34)"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(34,34,34)">In the global South
workers and peasants fight starvation wages and plunder of natural resources;
in the North austerity for workers and bailout for capitalists have become a
dominant phenomenon. As most nation states continue to collude with global
capital, people's movements grow for a just and sustainable world. The
speakers will review recent examples in Bangladesh, Colombia and the US and the
prospects for real democracy and global solidarity.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviva_Chomsky" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(17,85,204)">Aviva Chomsky</span></a><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(34,34,34)"> is a historian, author and activist. She
teaches at Salem State University in Massachusetts and her activism and
academic work include the development of the global working class, immigration
in US and mining in Colombia.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anu_Muhammad" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(17,85,204)">Anu Muhammad</span></a><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(34,34,34)"> is an activist and professor of
economics at Jahangirnagar University in Bangladesh. His research work and
activism includes globalization and energy, specifically mining and garment
workers issues in Bangladesh.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br>
Ed Childs is an activist and leader in </span><a href="http://www.local26.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">UNITE HERE</span></a><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(34,34,34)">! and </span><a href="http://www.iacenter.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">International Action Center</span></a><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(34,34,34)">, a cook at Harvard and participant of Occupy
Boston. UNITE HERE represents workers throughout the U.S. and Canada who
work in the hotel, food service, manufacturing, textile, laundry, and
airport industries.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(34,34,34)">Sponsors: </span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(34,34,34)"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(34,34,34)">Alliance for a
Secular and Democratic South Asia ( </span><a href="http://www.southasiaalliance.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(17,85,204)">www.SouthAsiaAlliance.org</span></a><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(34,34,34)"> )<br>
Bangladesh Workers Solidarity Network ( </span><a href="http://www.bangladeshworkerssolidaritynetwork.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(17,85,204)">www.BangladeshWorkersSolidarityNetwork.org</span></a>
)<span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mass
Global Action (</span><a href="http://www.massglobalaction.org" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">www.massglobalaction.org</span></a><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> )<br>
MIT Western Hemisphere Project (</span><a href="http://web.mit.edu/hemisphere/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">http://web.mit.edu/hemisphere/</span></a><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> )</span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(34,34,34)"></span></p>
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