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NAFTA, GMO corn, and land : resistance in rural mexico
November 28, 2016 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm EST
November Peace Coffeehouse: NAFTA, GMO corn, and land : resistance in rural mexico
Luz Rivera Martínez on popular resistance to neoliberal capitalism in Tlaxcala, Mexico
7-9 pm Monday November 28, 2016. Canisius College – Science Hall
convenient parking lot on Main St. near Delavan
Luz Rivera Martínez, is organizer with Consejo Nacional Urbano Y Campesino (CNUC) with 20 years of experience working on human rights, women’s movements, and peasant and labor movements in Tlaxcala. She will speak on building autonomous community, organizing outside the electoral system, and protecting millennia-old varieties of corn.
Cosponsored by WNY Peace Center, LASC, Peace Action-Canisius, Burning Books, and Global Justice Ecology Project.