FRIDAY, April 13

Coalition of Immokalee Workers "Encuentro" at the McDonalds HQ in Oak Brook, IL
(suburb of Chicago, more info at http://www.ciw-online.org)

5:00pm - LASC IV registration begins at conference site

6:00pm - 7:30pm introduction and LASC4 Opening Plenary Session
"Anti-capitalism in our daily lives and in our organizations"

7:30pm- 9:30pm Networking Reception, Performance

SATURDAY, April 14

10:00am - 12:30pm Carnival in downtown Chicago, Rock 'n Roll McDonald's

10:00 am - 2:00 pm Registration, Photo and Art Exhibit at the Conference site

1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Plenary Session: Issues: Immigration/Labor, Trade/Economics,
Militarization, Impunity/Movement for Justice, Environmental Justice/Indigenous Rights

3:15 pm - 4:15 pm Workshops
4:25 pm - 5:25 pm Workshops
5:35 pm - 6:35 pm Workshops

Dinner break

8:30pm - 11:00pm Culture as a Space for Struggle- Plenary and Performance

SUNDAY, April 15

8:30 am - conference opens with breakfast and coffee

9:00 am - 10:00 am Workshops
10:10 am - 11:10 pm Workshops
11:20 am - 12:20 pm Workshops

Lunch break, Networking

1:15 pm - 2:30 pm Workshops
2:45 pm - 4:00 pm Final Plenary/closing

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Some of the speakers who will participate in the LASC IV conference
(see below for preliminary schedule)

- Emilio Tojín, from the Guatemalan Association for Justice and Reconciliation (AJR), has pursued the former military dictator General Ríos Montt in the Guatemalan courts since 2001.
- Hector Aristizabal, a native from Medellin Colombia whose commitment to the human rights work forced him to leave his country due to death threats. He is also a practitioner of the techniques known as “Theater of the Oppressed”, developed by Brazilian Augusto Boal.
- Luis Javier Garrido, a Senior Researcher in the Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
- Jorge Edilson Arias, an indigenous councilman representing the Association of Indigenous Councils of Northern Cauca in Colombia, known as ACIN.
Gloria Andino, a Nicaraguan campesina and community leader from the small, farming community of El Regadío.
- Bolivar Ramilus, a Haitian peasant leader and former member of Parliament from the Fanmi Lavalas Party who was hounded by death threats following Haiti’s U.S.-supported coup in February 2004, forcing him into exile for more than a year.
- Sonia Umanzor , a leader of the Washington DC chapter of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN), the Salvadoran leftist political party. She is also a nurse who works with immigrants in Washington DC. She left El Salvador in 1981 to escape persecution by paramilitary groups

 

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"International solidarity is not an act of charity:
It is an act of unity between allies fighting on
different terrains toward the same objective.
The foremost of these objectives is to aid the
development of humanity to the highest level possible."
- Samora Machel (1933 - 1986)
Leader of FRELIMO,
First President of Mozambique