Discussion Evening on The Movements for Peace and Global Justice and on The Nature of the Status Quo They Confront Today

Discussion Evening on The Movements for Peace and Global Justice and on The Nature of the Status Quo They Confront Today
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
15 May 2003, 20:00-23:00

Venue: The ABC Treehouse (Voetboogstraat 11, Amsterdam)

Speakers and discussants:

• Phyllis Bennis, researcher at the Institute for Policy Studies, Independent Journalist and Transnational Institute Fellow
• Mariano Aguirre, Director of the Peace Research Center in Madrid, contributor to Monde Diplomatique and TNI Fellow
• Hilary Wainwright, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Labour Studies, University of Manchester, Editor of the monthly" Red Pepper" (UK)
  and TNI Fellow
• Carolina Rudas, first awardee of the TNI Young Scholars’ Programme, attached to the TNI project on Globalisation and Militarisation
• Olivier Hoedeman, researcher at the Corporate Europe Observatory in Amsterdam

Moderator: Arthur Mitzman, Professor Emeritus of Modern History, University of Amsterdam.

Subject: the perspectives for the anti-war and "alternative globalization" movements in the light of the current tensions between neoconservatism and
neoliberalism and between the United States and Europe.

Since space is limited, if you wish to attend, please e-mail Sigrid van As of the American Book center before May 8, with your name and the number of places you wish to reserve (no more than three, please). As subject, write: "May 15 discussion forum". Reservations will be taken on a first-come, first-served basis. From May 8 on, ABC will undertake its own publicity campaign for any remaining places.

Sponsors: Americans Against War in Iraq, Democrats Abroad, the Golfgroep, American Book Center.