Latin American Week Festival 2015-Galway

galway | rights, freedoms and repression | event notice Monday April 20, 2015 23:10 by Marta Fabregat - LASC

PLANTING DREAMS, GATHERING HOPES: Grassroots visions for global environmental justice

Planting dreams, gather hope: grassroots visions for global environmental justice

A Latin American History workshop linking Latin America and Ireland. This is part or a running series of Latin American Developent issues in Galway.

LASC is organizing its yearly Latin America Week, and as part of our annual tradition we will hold a conference focusing on grassroots alternatives to global environmental issues. The environmental crisis that the planet is suffering from has affected the most vulnerable population on the planet. Many people in Latin America have responded to this crisis by taking decisive action to challenge Government and corporate policies in order to seek environmental justice. We are pleased to announce that this year's speaker veteran of the Water Wars in Bolivia, Maria Eugenia Flores.

PLANTING DREAMS, GATHERING HOPES:
Grassroots visions for global environmental justice

Monday 27th of April
Monroe’s downstairs room
Dominick Street, Galway

16.30
Workshop on Latin American Development issues
Our wealth has always generated the poverty of the Latin American people.
Introductory workshop with Nancy Serrano, former Lecturer at UL.
This introductory workshop will give participants an overview of the history of Latin America and it will explore the common issues affecting development in the past and present, linking Latin America and Ireland.

18.30 - 8pm
Public and community partnerships for water management: a practical alternative for the common good, public talk by Maria Eugenia Florez (Cochabamba, Bolivia) – Red Vida
Maria Eugenia Flores took part on the Water Wars in Cochabamba in 2000. Since then, she has worked in initiatives of local and community water management systems and has helped supporting communities in this processes. Currently, she works for Red Vida, an inter-American network of social movements working in defense of water.

THIS IS A FREE EVENT.
For more information you can talk to us at
0872031764