[GPSCC-chat] Ecuador event Friday at SJPC...

[Carol Brouillet]

A friend of mine is very interested in this event, but can't go and 
would love to hear a report back about it.  I'd like to attend, but I 
can't go.  Is anyone planning on going and if so can they tell give 
my friend who is - "involved w/efforts to stop petroleum extraction 
from destroying Amazonian rainforest..."



>When Rafael Correa, an established economist, entered politics, he 
>was a man on a mission. Elected as Ecuador's President in 2006, he 
>quickly transformed a country with archaic structures into a social, 
>independent, ecological and participative democracy. Ecuadoreans now 
>have genuine reason to believe that the rigid structures of the past 
>are no longer acceptable and that they have a voice.
>
> From the Yasuni Initiative, by which the country would no longer 
> rely upon the exploitation of its natural oil resources, to the 
> analyzing of the IMF debt structure, hear from Correa and other 
> Ecuadorean leaders as they present alternatives regarding their 
> political, ecological and economic status in the global marketplace 
> and how they will put their people and the planet before profits.
>
>Suggested Donation $10 for food
>
>Food & Gathering
>6:30 PM
>Friday Oct. 11
>7:00 PM Presentation by Michelle Cordova, President of SJPJC and 
>Writer for La Oferta
>7:15 PM Film
>
>Sponsored by Spanish For Activists at San Jose Peace & Justice Center

Carol Brouillet on behalf of Barbara Deutsch.