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DESCRIPTION:Ella Baker Center, The Oakland Institute, Global Exchange & KPFA Free 
 Speech Radio Present  Creative Alternatives to Corporate Globalization:  
 Next Steps for the Movement  A panel discussion and reportback with Van 
 Jones and Deborah James  Moderated by Anuradha Mittal  A Benefit for KPFA 
 Radio  Tickets: $10 at the door  No one turned away for lack of funds.  The 
 event will provide a lively and informative community forum to address the 
 latest policies promoted by the neo-liberalist agenda, and the global 
 resistance movement’s current strategies to build creative alternatives 
 to these undemocratic global initiatives.  The panelists will report back 
 from both the World Economic Forum and the World Social Forum, which each 
 met this past January in Davos, Switzerland and in Porte Alegra, Brazil, 
 respectively. The World Economic Forum, which invites 1,000 top 
 international business and political leaders, has gathered annually for 
 over 30 years to discuss issues regarding macroeconomics and to develop 
 geo-political agendas. The World Social Forum, in contrast, convenes 
 hundreds of thousands of social, environmental and cultural activists to 
 formulate effective alternatives to corporate globalization, and to build 
 just, sustainable and democratic solutions.  About the Panelists:  Van 
 Jones, Esq, is the founder and National Executive Director of the Ella 
 Baker Center for Human Rights (EBC). Headquartered in Oakland, EBC is a 
 national organization that challenges human rights abuses in the U.S. 
 criminal justice system. Van is a steadfast opponent of policies that 
 result in the over-imprisonment and unlawful abuse of marginalized peoples 
 in the United States. He is helping to lead a national fight for 
 alternatives to the U.S. incarceration industry. Van has been a pioneer in 
 challenging police abuse, as well as the over-incarceration of young 
 people. He helped to found the Ella Baker Center to anchor multiple efforts 
 to challenge the criminalization, incarceration and abuse of low-income 
 people and people of color. To learn more about Ella Baker Center for Human 
 Rights, visit http://www.ellabakercenter.org  Deborah James is the Global 
 Economy Director at Global Exchange, where she has worked to democratize 
 the global economy since 1993. She played a key role in the hemispheric 
 movement to stop the expansion of NAFTA to the rest of Latin America 
 through the Free Trade Area of the Americas. This successful campaign 
 paralleled her efforts to stop the expansion of the World Trade 
 Organization in both 1999 and 2003 with the global network Our World Is Not 
 for Sale. In 2004, Deborah served as the first Executive Director of the 
 Venezuela Information Office in Washington, DC, an organization that 
 reframed public debate of the exciting progressive social transformation 
 happening under Hugo Chávez's leadership and successfully shifted US 
 foreign policy towards Venezuela. http://www.globalexchange.org  Moderator: 
 Anuradha Mittal, a native of India, is an internationally renowned expert 
 on trade, development, human rights and agricultural issues. She is the 
 author and editor of numerous articles and books including America Needs 
 Human Rights, The Future in the Balance: Essays on Globalization and 
 Resistance, and Voices From the South: Third World Speaks Out Against 
 Genetic Engineering. Her articles and opinion pieces have been published in 
 widely circulated newspapers including the Los Angeles Times, the New York 
 Times, Chicago Tribune, Bangkok Post, Economic and Political Weekly, 
 Houston Chronicle, and the Nation. She is the founder and executive 
 director of a new policy think tank, The Oakland Institute. 
 http://www.oaklandinstitute.org          \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/03/30/61793.php
SUMMARY:Creative Alternatives to Corporate Globalization:  Next Steps for the Movement
LOCATION:The Women's Building  3643 18th Street (between Guerrero & Valencia)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/03/30/61793.php
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