{"id":1229,"date":"2013-02-24T16:56:38","date_gmt":"2013-02-24T23:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.evergreen.edu\/bohmerp\/?p=1229"},"modified":"2013-02-24T16:56:38","modified_gmt":"2013-02-24T23:56:38","slug":"laura-carlsen-to-speak-on-mexicop-latin-america-monday-march-4th-and-tuesdaymarch-5th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/laura-carlsen-to-speak-on-mexicop-latin-america-monday-march-4th-and-tuesdaymarch-5th\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Carlsen to speak on Mexico, Latin America: Monday, March 4th; and Tuesday,March 5th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Laura Carlsen will be giving two major talks in Olympia. \u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/files\/2013\/02\/Laura-Carlsen-flyer.pdf\">Laura Carlsen flyer<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><strong><em>1) Latin America\u2019s Challenge to Neoliberalism<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n<h4>Monday, March 4, 2013 7-9pm<\/h4>\n<h4>Olympia Center, Room 101<\/h4>\n<h4>222 N Columbia St, Downtown Olympia<\/h4>\n<p><strong><em>and<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>2) A Nation at Risk: Drug Wars, Democracy, and Dependency in Mexico<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<h4>Tuesday, March 5, 2013 11am-1pm<\/h4>\n<h4>The Evergreen State College, Seminar II, Room E1105<\/h4>\n<h5>Laura Carlsen is a political analyst and writer who has lived in Mexico City for 25 years and is \u00a0the Director of The Americas Program, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cipamericas.org\">www.cipamericas.org<\/a>, at the Center for International Policy,\u00a0 She has written extensively on NAFTA, the drug war, immigration and gender issues in <em>Americas Updater<\/em>, <em>Counterpunch<\/em>, <em>La Jornada<\/em> 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 \u201c<em>Confronting Globalization: <\/em><em>Economic Integration and Popular Resistance in Mexico<\/em>\u201d and has participated as an analyst and activist in the movement against militarization and the drug war on both sides of the border.<\/h5>\n<p align=\"center\">\u00a0Both events are free and open to the public!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Sponsored by OMJP (Olympia Movement for Justice and Peace), Tesc MEChA and the Tesc Political Economy and Social Movements Program.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laura Carlsen will be giving two major talks in Olympia. \u00a0\u00a0 Laura Carlsen flyer 1) Latin America\u2019s 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/laura-carlsen-to-speak-on-mexicop-latin-america-monday-march-4th-and-tuesdaymarch-5th\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Laura Carlsen to speak on Mexico, Latin America: Monday, March 4th; and Tuesday,March 5th<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":175,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}