[Imc-oxford] Africa: Exploitation and resistance - Conference on 11 June

[Solange. Bejar Ulloa]

As a member of Oxford Indymedia, you might be interested in our Africa:
Exploitation and Resistance conference, which is taking place in Oxford.
It would be great if you could circulate this widely, including to your
members. More information below...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Africa has some of the richest natural resources in the world. Yet the
majority of its people have been impoverished by decades of policies
imposed by international finance institutions and northern governments.
These policies have enabled corporations to accumulate vast profits
while dispossessing the people and the continent of its riches, often
subsidised by public funds in the form of 'aid'. 

But from Egypt to Gabon, South Africa to Tunisia, African people have
been resisting. This conference will discuss their struggle, the
alternatives they're proposing and opportunities for solidarity actions
with the oppressed and exploited.  

 

Speakers:

Njoki Njoroge Njehu, Daughters of Mumbi Global Resource Centre, Kenya,
and Africa Jubilee South

Yash Tandon, Ugandan author and activist

Firoze Manji, Editor in chief, Pambazuka News

Jonathan Glennie, Overseas Development Institute

Deborah Doane, Julian Oram, Kirsty Wright, World Development Movement

Sophi Tranchell, Divine Chocolate

Esther Standford-Xosei, Pan-African Reparations Coalition in Europe

Sibongile Ndashi, Interights

Plus music from Jali Fily Cissokho, Senegalese Kora player and vocalist

 

Debates and workshops on:

Africa from exploitation to resistance * Is Fairtrade working? * Africa
beyond aid * African sexualities: The struggle for liberation * How
Europe underdeveloped Africa * Organising locally for global justice *
Where now for climate justice? * From food crisis to food sovereignty

 

11am-6pm, Saturday 11 June

Wesley Memorial Methodist Church, New Inn Hall Street, Oxford OX1 2DH

 

The conference is free, but register in advance at 
wdm.org.uk/africa-conference <http://www.wdm.org.uk/africa-conference> 

Invite your friends to the event on facebook
<http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=157837037611483> 

 

Organised by Pambazuka (www.pambazuka.org) and the World Development
Movement

 

 

 

 

 

 

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