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DESCRIPTION:Bay Area local and anti-IMF activist, Rick Rowden, returns to SF to discuss 
 his new book (London, Zed Books), and to answer your questions about the 
 IMF, the global economic recession and how citizens are mobilizing with a 
 rights-based approach for alternative economic policies.\n\nRick is an 
 expert on the IMF, a former senior policy analyst for the Washington DC 
 office of the international advocacy NGO, ActionAid, which works with 
 women’s rights organizations, small farmers and health and education 
 activists in 45 countries around Africa, Asia and Latin America.\n\nDuring 
 the recent global financial meltdown, the IMF launched a public relations 
 offensive in which it tried to re-invent itself, promising to change its 
 unpopular economic policies that are attached as conditions on the loans it 
 gives to developing countries during economic crises. But Rowden 
 will\ndispel these myths, show what the IMF is really up to, and explain 
 how its policies impact the economies of developing countries and in 
 particular, how they undermine the financing which is desperately needed 
 for public health services and the fight against HIV/AIDS.\n\nHe will also 
 discuss the many ways in which networks of activists throughout the Global 
 South are using a human rights-based approach to challenge these economic 
 policies and open public spaces for a broader discussion of possible 
 alternative economic policies for creating jobs and increasing\npublic 
 investment.\n\nA graduate of SF State, Rick Rowden taught Political Science 
 at Golden Gate University in San Francisco and Global Studies at California 
 State University, Monterey Bay before moving to Washington DC, where he 
 spent nearly a decade working with activists around the world against the 
 policies of the IMF, World Bank and WTO. Recently, he worked for the United 
 Nations in Geneva and is currently doing his PhD in economics at Jawaharlal 
 Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi, India.\n\nThis event is organized by 
 Priority Africa Network, ActUP East Bay,and International Development 
 Exchange (IDEX)\nSponsored by Women Organized to Respond to 
 Life-threatening Diseases (WORLD) and Global Exchange. \nFor more 
 information, please contact PAN email: priorityafrica@yahoo.com or call 510 
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 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/08/24/18656740.php
SUMMARY:The Deadly Ideas of Neoliberalism:
LOCATION:Global Exchange, 2017 Mission Street in San Francisco
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/08/24/18656740.php
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