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Connecting
the Local & the Global
Campus Center
Auditorium
University of Massachusetts, Amherst,
September 22 - 24, 2006
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Friday Evening
September 22, 2006
Armando Flores
Center for
Consumer Defense in El Salvador
 Armando
Flores has a law degree from the University of El Salvador; in
1991 he becomes co-founder of the Committee for the Defense of
the Consumer - CDC; in 1989 and 1990, he is the coordinator of
the education program for the Federation of Consumer
Cooperatives of El Salvador; between 1991 and 1995 he is Vice
Director of CDC; in 1996 he is the Coordinator for the Consumers
International for the Central American and the Caribbean region
and has been the CDC Director since 1997.
Ray
Rogers
Corporate Campaign
 Ray
runs the New York City-based Corporate Campaign, Inc. (CCI),
which been described as labor's most innovative strategist and
"one of the most successful union organizers since the CIO
sit-down strikes of the 1930s." For 25 years, Corporate Campaign
has championed union and community solidarity and membership and
family involvement in campaigns for social and economic justice.
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Saturday
September 23, 2006
lunch keynote
Frances Moore-Lappé
 Frances Moore Lappé is the author or coauthor of fifteen books. Her 1971 three-million-copy bestseller, Diet for a Small Planet,
continues to awaken readers to the human-made causes of
hunger and the power of our everyday choices to create
the world we want.
Evening: Rough Cut Premieres
Water Warriors
by Liz Miller
Water First
by Amy Hart
followed by
Live Music |
EMAIL: water@massglobalaction.org
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