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NEWS & REPORTS
Nov 2004
Newsletter #3
SNOWBIRD SYMPOSIUM
If you are coming to San Miguel de Allende for the semester break or
a little winter vacation, you’ll want to take advantage of the
Snowbird Symposium. The Center is organizing a series of public talks,
iscussions and films on a variety of topics for visitors as well as
year round residents. If you are interested in giving a talk, let Betsy
know at ebowman@igc.org. In next
month’s Newsletter we’ll let you know the schedule so you
can take advantage of some stimulating discussions while also enjoying
the ambience of SMA. If you are coming our way in the near future, let
us know so we can welcome you.
CGJ BROCHURE
A lovely brochure about the Center for Global Justice is now available.
It’s a good way to introduce friends and colleagues to the Center.
You will be able to download it from our website here
or we can e-mail it to you as an attachment and you can print out as
many copies as you need. Just contact Holly at hyasui@GlobalJusticeCenter.org
OUR PURPOSE IN A NUTSHELL
The Coordinating Committee has adopted the following Statement of Purpose
for the Center: The Center for Global Justice is a nurturing community
of researchers and activists in support of progressive social change.
As part of the current global social movements for justice, the Center
is dedicated to research and learning for a better world. We strive
to combine theory and practice based on the understanding that theory
without practice is empty, while practice without theory can falter.
While our primary focus is on global justice, the Center is open to
a variety of research and learning projects, both individual and collective
by activists and academics from all disciplines. Located in central
Mexico in the city of San Miguel de Allende, the Center is a place for
North-South dialogue and a vantage point for studying the impact of
globalization on the societies of the South in particular. We welcome
those who come to join our resident community of thinkers and activists,
and those who wish to affiliate with us from afar.
DIRECT DEMOCRACY IN ARGENTINA
Center Associate Graciela Monteagudo is conducting a 12-day tour of
Argentina’s autonomous popular initiatives: worker controlled
factories, cooperatives formed by the unemployed, neighborhood associations.
Meet the people who are struggling to create alternatives to the neo-liberal
globalization that has ravaged their country. January 10-21, 2005 for
$850 plus airfare. For info go to www.autonomista.org
or contact Graciela at autonomista1@aol.com
2005 CONFERENCE: WOMEN AND GLOBALIZATION
The theme for next year’s conference will be Women and Globalization.
It will look at the impact of globalization on women in the global South
as well as the North and the struggle of women to create alternatives.
Preliminary plans are being made for this July 27-August 3, 2005 event
at the Center in San Miguel de Allende. For more information about the
2005 conference, click here.
INVITATION TO CUBA
Center Associate and photographer Henry Miller has been invited to exhibit
his photographs in Cuba. He had exhibited these vibrant, intimate photos
of indigenous people at our Workshop last August. Cuban philosopher
Miguel Limia was so taken with them that he arranged for an exhibition
in Havana’s El Capitolio for International Social Science Day.
RPA (Radical Philosopy Association) ADOPTS THE CENTER
At its national conference November 4-7, the Radical Philosophy Association
officially adopted the Center for Global Justice as a project. Center
Associates Cliff DuRand, Kathy Russell and Ann Ferguson gave a presentation
on “Doing Radical Research in the Global South” at a plenary
session on the future of the RPA. Members were so taken with our research
and learning project that they threatened to come to San Miguel de Allende
en mass.
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