[ssf] Re: Mexico Speakers Tour

[D J Pearman]

Guys,

hi - the Sheffield-Nicaragua society (Sheffield Esteli Student partnership) are
on sesp at shef.ac.uk

...if that's what you mean.  They seem like a good bunch, though I'm not sure
they usually organise speaker meetings.  Otherwise, the Sheffield campaigning
societies can all be found through the www.shef.ac.uk/union website.

Oh...and a little good news: it seems the student public of Sheffield Uni like a
bit of Doug, they've decided to make me Activities Officer.  Damn shame Celia
isn't in it with me, though we've got a great ethical candidate as Education
Officer (George Woods).

ciao


Doug

Quoting Dan <dan at aktivix.org>:

> Hi Helen!
> 
> 21st April is the usual social forum day: we could host a meeting then.  
> I think maybe the Sheffield 2 Venezuela organising folk might want to 
> come along too, not sure.
> 
> In principle, I think this is a great idea.  SSFers?
> 
> Helen - any more details of what ADAFEM and Radilla do, or the situation 
> in Mexico?  I.e. something that could snappily go on a poster!
> 
> peace
> 
> Dan
> ----
> 
> Helen Gilbert wrote:
> 
> >
> > Hello
> >
> > I am contacting you on behalf of Peace Brigades International (PBI) 
> > with an exciting proposal for an event/talk in Sheffield. . .
> >
> > PBI is a humanitarian non-governmental organisation that works to 
> > assist human
> > rights defenders by providing protective accompaniment to individuals
> > and
> > organisations who request our support, enabling non-violent conflict
> > resolution. We currently work in Colombia, Guatemala, Indonesia and
> > Mexico.
> >
> > In April we will be visited by a human rights activist from Mexico -
> > Tita
> > Radilla. She is the vice-president of AFADEM - an organisation made up
> > of
> > families of the detained and disappeared who have been protesting to
> > governmental institutions about the disappearences since 1978. PBI is
> > hoping to use the opportunity of having her with us to organise a
> > programme of
> > events and talks to raise awareness of the human rights situation in
> > Mexico.
> >
> > I'm wondering whether there would be any interest for organising an 
> > event in Sheffield - it could be linked in with Peace in the Park, 
> > People and Planet, Social Forum(?), Make Poverty History . . . This is 
> > a very exciting opportunity. Please let me know asap if you see any 
> > possibility for making something happen. The dates I anticipate her 
> > being available are 18th - 22nd April 2005.
> >
> > Thank you and I look forward to hearing from you.
> >
> > Helen Gilbert
> > (PBI Outreach worker)
> >
> 
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