<div dir="ltr"><p style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Globalization and People's Movements – from Bangladesh to Colombia</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(68,68,68)"></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;line-height:15.75pt" align="center"><i><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">A discussion with </span></i><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(68,68,68)"></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Aviva Chomsky, Anu Muhammad, Ed Childs </span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(68,68,68)"></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span><span>Saturday January 11, 2014 3 PM</span></span></span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(68,68,68)"></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;line-height:15.75pt" align="center"><a href="http://whereis.mit.edu/?selection=4&Buildings=go" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,104,207)">MIT
– Room 4-237</span></b></a><b><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br>
77 Mass Ave<br>
Cambridge, MA</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(68,68,68)"></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;line-height:15.75pt" align="center"><i><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Free
and Open to the Public<br>
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</span></i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/519529271488239/?previousaction=join&source=1" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(0,104,207)">https://www.facebook.com/events/519529271488239/?previousaction=join&source=1</span></a><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(68,68,68)"></span></p>
<p style="line-height:15.75pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;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><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(68,68,68)"></span></p>
<p style="line-height:15.75pt"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviva_Chomsky" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204)">Aviva Chomsky</span></a><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Arial;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><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(68,68,68)"></span></p>
<p style="line-height:15.75pt"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anu_Muhammad" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204)">Anu Muhammad</span></a><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Arial;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><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(68,68,68)"></span></p>
<p style="line-height:15.75pt"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Ed Childs is an
activist and leader in<span> </span></span><a href="http://www.local26.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,104,207)">UNITE
HERE</span></a><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">!
and<span> </span></span><a href="http://www.iacenter.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,104,207)">International Action Center</span></a><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Arial;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><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(68,68,68)"></span></p>
<p style="line-height:15.75pt"><font size="1"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Sponsors: <br>
Alliance for a Secular and Democratic South Asia ( </span><a href="http://www.southasiaalliance.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204)">www.SouthAsiaAlliance.org</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> )<br>
Bangladesh Workers Solidarity Network ( </span><a href="http://www.bangladeshworkerssolidaritynetwork.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204)">www.BangladeshWorkersSolidarityNetwork.org</span></a><span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(68,68,68)"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(68,68,68)">)</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(68,68,68)">Mass
Global Action (</span><a href="http://www.massglobalaction.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,104,207)">www.massglobalaction.org</span></a><span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(68,68,68)"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(68,68,68)">)<br>
MIT Western Hemisphere Project (</span><a href="http://web.mit.edu/hemisphere/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,104,207)">http://web.mit.edu/hemisphere/</span></a><span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(68,68,68)"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(68,68,68)">)</span></font><span><font color="#888888"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(68,68,68)"></span></font></span></p>
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