Globalization and the Fight for Central America: Costa Rica Inc. and Beyond

Globalize This! in conjunction with the Costa Rican Federation for the Conservation of the Environment (FECON), will be hosting a special event which will look at the consequences of free trade agreements on the Americas with a focus on Central America, specifically Costa Rica. We will review contemporary struggles of peoples across the American continents against the ratification of the Central America-Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA).

With us we will have guest speaker Fabián Pacheco Rodriguez, the current President of FECON and the son of former Costa Rican President Abel Pacheco.

Fabián will be discussing FECON's involvement in Bloque Verde and the Costa Rican movement to defeat CAFTA in the upcoming referendum on October 7, 2007. Fabián will be coming to us direct from Costa Rica and fresh off the front lines of this historic vote, which is the first time that any population has had the opportunity to vote on a free trade agreement.

The event will include a screening of segments of two documentaries, "Fourth World War" and "Costa Rica Inc," and will include a discussion of strategies for people in the U.S. to work in solidarity with our comadres and compadres in Central America.

This is a bilingual English/Spanish event.

Cost:
Requested donation of $5.00-$20.00
(everyone is welcome--no one turned away for lack of funds)