Laura Carlsen will be giving two major talks in Olympia.    Laura Carlsen flyer

1) Latin America’s Challenge to Neoliberalism

Monday, March 4, 2013 7-9pm

Olympia Center, Room 101

222 N Columbia St, Downtown Olympia

and

2) A Nation at Risk: Drug Wars, Democracy, and Dependency in Mexico

Tuesday, March 5, 2013 11am-1pm

The Evergreen State College, Seminar II, Room E1105

Laura Carlsen is a political analyst and writer who has lived in Mexico City for 25 years and is  the Director of The Americas Program, www.cipamericas.org, at the Center for International Policy,  She has written extensively on NAFTA, the drug war, immigration and gender issues in Americas Updater, Counterpunch, La Jornada and others. She is a columnist for Huffington Post and Foreign Policy in Focus, and a commentator with Al Jazeera, CCTV, NBC, Democracy Now!, NPR and Mexican television and radio stations. Laura Carlsen is co-editor of “Confronting Globalization: Economic Integration and Popular Resistance in Mexico” and has participated as an analyst and activist in the movement against militarization and the drug war on both sides of the border.

 Both events are free and open to the public!

 Sponsored by OMJP (Olympia Movement for Justice and Peace), Tesc MEChA and the Tesc Political Economy and Social Movements Program.