Events

Latin America 2011 conference

Saturday 3rd December 2011
9:30am to 5:00pm

Congress House, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3LS (see map)

Tickets £10 waged £6 unwaged. Register today by credit card at 0208 800 0155

Featuring over 50 speakers from Nicaragua, Cuba, Venezuela, Colombia, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador and the UK:

Alberto Juantorena, Olympic gold medallist and Cuban Deputy Minister of Sport; Eglé Sánchez, President Graphical and Printworkers Union, Venezuela; Mothers of the Miami Five; Prof. Ernesto Laclau; Robin Blackburn; Victoria Brittain; Jeremy Corbyn MP, Frances O’Grady, TUC Deputy General Secretary; and many more special guests

More than 20 seminars and film screenings include:

• Cuba: 50 Years of blockade and revolution
• Venezuela: Defending the majority, not punishing the poorest
• Women and the struggle for equality in Latin America
• Education and liberation in Latin America
• Nicaragua: looking to the future
• Music across continents: Africa and Latin America
• Popular change in Argentia and Uruguay
• Brazil - achievements and challenges
• Meeting the challenge of climate change

PLUS Post-conference FIESTA LATINA with live music, bar and food - Tickets £8 (£5 with conference ticket)

Full list of speakers so far:

Carlos Alfaro, Embassy of Cuba
Braulio Alvarez, Venezuelan Member of Parliament
Esther Armenteros, Ambassador, Republic of Cuba
Karen Bell, University of Bristol
Robin Blackburn, University of Essex
Victoria Brittain, Journalist
Colin Burgon, Labour Friends of Venezuela
Guy Burton, London School of Economics
Joabe Cavalcanti, Brazilian Workers Party representative
Michael Chanan, University of Roehampton
Jeremy Corbyn MP, Vice Chair, All Party Latin America Group
Steve Cottingham, lawyer OH Parsons, Campaign to Free the Miami 5
Dr John Crabtree, Oxford University Latin America Centre
Bob Crow, General Secretary RMT
Michael Derham, Northumbria University
Mark Dineen, University of Southampton
Megan Dobney, SERTUC Regional Secretary
Francisco Dominguez, University of Middlesex        
Lucy Duran, SOAS
Wendy Emmett, Environmental campaigner
Nina Franklin, NUT President
Rosalba Gaviria, FENSUAGRO, Colombian Trade Union
Cecil Gutzmore, University of Jamaica
Billy Hayes, General Secretary CWU
John Haylett, Morning Star political editor
Diana Holland, Assistant General Secretary UNITE    
Sally Hunt, General Secretary UCU
Alberto Juantorena, Cuban Dep. Minister of Sport
Peter Kavanagh, Unite the Union
Prof. Ernesto Laclau, University of Essex
Hugh Lanning, Dep Gen Sec PCS
Grace Livingstone, journalist and author
Magali Llort Ruiz, Miami Five Mother and campaigner
Dr. Steve Ludlam, Sheffield University
Professor Doreen Massey, Open University
Rob Miller, Director, Cuba Solidarity Campaign
Samuel Moncada, Ambassador, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
Guisell Morales-Echaverry, Embassy of Nicaragua
Emily Morris, London Metropolitan University
Fidel Ernesto Narvaez, Alianza PAIS – Ecuador
Frances O’Grady, Deputy General Secretary TUC
Bob Oram, Cuba Solidarity Campaign
Francisco Panizza, London School Economics
Humberto Pérez-Blanco, University of the West of England
Linda Perks, Unison, Greater London Region Secretary
Diana Raby, Liverpool University
Bernard Regan, Secretary, Cuba Solidarity Campaign
Mirta Rodriguez Perez, Miami Five Mother and campaigner
Alvaro Sánchez, Venezuelan Embassy
Eglé Sánchez, Gen Sec Graphical and Printworkers Union, Venezuela
Nelson Sanz, President Graphical and Printworkers Union, Venezuela
Bert Schouwenburg, International Officer GMB
Irma Sehwerert Mileham, Miami Five Mother and campaigner
Alex Tilley, Coordinator, Bolivia Information Forum
Enrico Tortolano, Tribune
Jeni Vine, Film maker
Adrian Weir, Unite the Union
Matthew Willgress, Venezuela Solidarity Campaign
Tony Woodley, Unite the Union

Organised by Cuba Solidarity Campaign, Venezuela Solidarity Campaign,

Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign, SERTUC and a coalition of solidarity organisations and Trade Unions