June 22-26, 2009: NYC -- A week of resistance and organizing
Dear Friends,
What a week coming up! The "G192" (UN Conference on the Financial and
Economic Crisis and its Impacts on Development), previously scheduled for June
1-4, is happening June 24-26: this Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
On Friday we'll have a PRESS CONFERENCE AT THE UN (Dag Hammerskjold Plaza,
47th St. & 1st Ave. from 1 to 2pm) to call for a Global Mobilization in
Response to the September G20 in Pittsburgh.
There are important related activities Monday and Tuesday:
MONDAY: 22 June 2009, 7-9pm, Boss Room, 8th Floor, UN Church Center
(777 UN Plaza)
Workers on the Move: The Global Crisis and Migrant Labor
Sponsors: Resist, International Migrants Alliance, Ibon Foundation, World
Council of Churches
Teresa Gutierrez, coordinator of the May 1 Coalition for Immigrants Rights, and
Deputy Secretary General of the International Migrants Alliance (IMA), Paul L.
Quintos, Policy Officer of Ibon Foundation and Rev. Deborah De Winter (tbc),
WCC Programme Executive for the United States will discuss the implications of
the crisis on working people and the need to globalize our response and
solidarity. She'll share a panel with other leaders in the global movement
for migrants' rights.
TUESDAY: 23 June 2009, 7:30pm, Brecht Forum, 451 West St. (Bank & Bethune
Streets, NYC)
Towards a People-Centered Economy: Alternative Responses to the
Crisis
"On the Eve of the UN Conference on the Economic Crisis"
BOPM leader Larry Holmes is featured together with Pedro Paez (Ecuador's
ex-Minister of Economic Coordination, and member of the UN GA President's
Commission of Experts on Reforms to the International Monetary and Financial
System), Sarah Anderson (Institute for Policy Studies), and
others.
WEDNESDAY: 24 June, 6:30-8:30pm, BOPM ORGANIZERS MEETING
- Reports on the Monday and Tuesday meetings
- Updates and plans for the Friday press conference
- Very exciting news and reports from last week's "People's Summit
Tent City" in Detroit, including plans to build an "Unemployed
Councils" movement
- Latest developments in mobilizing in response to the September G20 in
Pittsburgh
- Followup on BOP's endorsement of the Trans Day of Action, June 26
(Friday),starting at 3pm.
- Update on the struggle to save WBAI, a critically important movement radio
station (including an announcement of an important meeting on
Thursday)
FRIDAY:' 26 June, 1:00-2:00pm, BOPM Press Conference
at Dag Hammerskjold Plaza, 47th St. & 1st Ave. to call for a
Global Mobilization in Response to the September G20 in
Pittsburgh.
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