Oscar Olivera speaking tour of UK
Bolivia Solidarity
World-renowned Bolivian activist Oscar Olivera will speak at the British
Parliament, Monday 10th July, the meeting will be hosted by Labour MP Jeremy
Corbyn.
Oscar Olivera is the Executive Secretary of the Federation of Factory Workers
from Cochabamba, In 2000 he led the citizens’ uprising against the sale of
Cochabamba’s water reserves to Bechtel. Oscar has received the Lettelier
Moffit Award of Human Rights (2000) and the Goldman Environmental Award
(2001), two prestigious honors in the fields of human rights and environmental
protection respectively.
Oscar is also a co-writer of the book Cochabamba, where he declares on one of
its chapters “The Water Coordinadora in Cochabamba proved able to emerge on
the scene of struggle with such force because, starting five years earlier,
organizational structures were built from below-from every peasant union,
factory union, and outlying neighborhood. These structures had clear
objectives: to defend what belongs to the collective; to defend social rights;
to defend traditional customs and practices grounded in assembly-based
self-governance; and to promote effective collective mobilizations. Only this
patient work-ant-like, honest, clear, and committed-could have resulted, years
later, in the only workers', peasants', and popular organization that has
proven itself capable of throwing out a foreign corporation, defeating the
state, and, for one week, replacing the state with forms of assembly-style
self-government.”
Dates
Saturday 8th July
Speaking at the World Development Movement conference on water privatisation (Friends Meeting House, London) Whose Rules Rule- Challenging the corporate water takeover - 8 July London
Sunday 9th July
Spanish/English meeting, directed specially to Latin-American community. Supported by Bolivia SC, HOV, Colombia SC and others. In Rampart Social Centre, 3-10pm
Sunday 9th July
Oscar speaks about Cochabamba water struggle in Logan Hall, at 7pm at the SWP's Marxism event Marxism 2006 - a festival of resistance
Monday 10th July
Public Meeting at Houses of Parliament, MP Jeremy Corbyn and other mps at 2-3pm
Spanish Language meeting in St
Johns church Waterloo, 6.30pm-9.30pm, (Philosophical café)
www.filosofialatinoamerica-uk.org
Tuesday 11th July
Evening public meeting in Manchester
Wednesday 12th July
Evening public meeting at The
Common Place in Leeds
www.thecommonplace.org.uk
Thursday 13th July
Daytime informal meeting at Northern TUC (Newcastle)
Evening public meeting at the STUC in Glasgow - speaking with Mike Kirby (Unison Scotland) and Mark Ballard MSP Jackie Simpkins at War on Want
Fri 14th July
Morning meeting in Glasgow with
Scottish trade unionists
Evening public meeting in Brighton (various groups including No Sweat
campaign)
Saturday 15th July
Afternoon. Speak at RAN/War on Want conference on Latin America's social movements
Latin America- Social Movements Fight Back
Sunday 16th July
Speaking at Tolpuddle Festival
June 2006
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