Lisa Sullivan, spoke in Olympia on the current situation in Honduras and Venezuela and the growth of the left throughout Latin America on Wednesday, September 30th at 1:30 and 7 P.M.
Right now, the elected President of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya is taking refuge in the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa, Honduras after returning clandestinely to Honduras after being overthrown in a military coup. The U.S. right-wing is playing a major role in supporting this illegal coup. Lisa Sullivan in her talks pointed out the aim by the right-wing of Honduras to stay in power until the next scheduled elections in Honduras, November 28th. What is exciting and positive is the growth h of the popular movements in Honduras who in spite of serious repression are calling for the return of Zelaya to the presidency.
Lisa Sullivan recently traveled to Honduras with Fr. Joe Mulligan and seven others to demand democracy be restored by reinstating the elected President Zelaya who had been ousted by a military coup. Sullivan had just been to Honduras the month prior to the coup, asking President Zelaya to stop sending his troops to the School of the Americas/ WHINSEC for training. Sullivan has already met seven Latin American Presidents making similar requests, with some success. Sullivan will share with us her overall impressions of the recent political and economic changes in Latin America and the U.S. role there.
Wednesday, September 30th:
Evergreen State College
Sem. 2, E 1105 at 1:30 P.M.
Talk: The Latest Developments in Honduras!
and
Traditions Cafe at 7PM
5th and Water-downtown Olympia
Talk: The significance of what is happening in Honduras and Venezuela for liberation and justice in Latin America
BIO: Lisa Sullivan directs the Latin American office of the School of the Americas Watch (SOAW) and leads its Partnership America Latina (PAL). Born, raised and educated in the United States, Sullivan studied and lived in Mexico and Guatemala during the 1970s. She married and moved to Bolivia to work among the poor as a lay Maryknoll community worker. She raised her three children living and working among the poor in the barrios of Bolivia and Venezuela. For the past 32 years she has lived in different countries of Latin America currently residing in Venezuela for more than 20 years.
NO Charge!
Event Sponsored by Latin American Solidarity Organization (LASO) and the Political Economy and Social Movements Program at Evergreen.
Call Peter at 867-6431 for more info.
Note: Lisa Sullivan will also be talking at the Econvergence conference in Portland, October 3 and 4.