Women's International League for Peace & Freedom Sacramento Valley Branch Presents

The Latin American People's Movement and the Global Peace & Justice Movement

Friday, January 25, 2008, 7 pm-9 pm Sacramento Friends Meeting, 890 57th Street, Sacramento

The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) held its 29th International Congress this past July in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, where social movements - as throughout Latin America - are providing models of resistance and basic community organizing.

In Bolivia, the most disenfranchised have organized to take control of their lives and resources. President Evo Morales has made substantial changes in the distribution of wealth. His distribution of national tax money to the local departments (states) gives them more direct choice over expenditures. Morales has implemented food subsidies through government grocery stores and extended health care to low income people. His reforms are partly funded by his success in returning petro-carbon revenues to the national treasury.

Morales is opposed in Bolivia by the Autonomy Movement, which objects to the federalization of locally generated tax revenues, and wants to keep tax money in the wealthier areas where it is raised.

Two members of Sacramento WILPF attended the WILPF Congress: Darien De Lu and Don Knutson. They will share photos and reflections on the developing global Peace and Justice Movement, and the challenges facing WILPF in our changing world.

Please join us.

Light refreshments will be served.
Admission is free but donations are welcome!
INFO: Ellen, 916-369-5510, wilpf [at] nicetechnology.com



Ellen Schwartz
Sacramento Valley Branch
Women's International League for
Peace & Freedom
916-369-5510