During the 1970s, national and international solidarity organisations arose in opposition to U.S. imperialism in Latin America. Washington’s support for repressive regimes across the region produced world wide diasporas of Salvadoreans, Argentines, Guatemalans, Chileans, Uruguayans and Colombians, inter alia. In Australia’s case, these included significant numbers of political and economic refugees. The conjuncture of Latin American activists escaping authoritarian regimes and the broad based coalition of Church, Left, labour organisations, human rights groups and Latin Americanists generated lasting solidarity with progressive and revolutionary movements which confronted and, in some cases, continue to confront U.S. intervention and ruling elites in Latin America and the Caribbean. This paper attempts to recover and rethink this area of hybrid popular struggle, vital to focus countries and heuristic for Australian society.
Details: Tuesday 13 September 2011. 5 - 7pm, Conference Centre
Teachers Federation House, 23-33 Mary Street, Surry Hills
Sponsors: Colectivo Mujer & Latin American Social Forum, Sydney
http://latinamericasocialforum.blogspot.com/
Includes music by Papalote
Presentations in English; discussion bilingual. Join us for a lively debate. All welcome.