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As part of the Northwest tour by Mexico Solidarity Network, two presentations will be open to the public:

Women Confronting Globalization: Cultural Resistance, Alternative Economy and Human Rights

MONDAY DEC 4, 7PM
Traditions Café, 300 5th Ave SW, Olympia

TUESDAY DEC 5, 1PM
SEM 2 C3105, The Evergreen State College, Olympia

Speaker: Cecilia Santiago Vera is a social psychologist from Chiapas, Mexico. Her work is focused primarily on gender and intercultural studies and through stregthening the community. She has worked with the displaced population, especially with women survivors of the Acteal Massacre, people in prison, and indigenous communities that live in violent contexts. Cecilia also collaborates on the Psychological Program in Chiapas, a Mexican NGO that works to develop psychological interventions in populations experiencing human rights violations and works to take back the resources of the community.

Cecilia, an activist from Chiapas, accompanied by a Rachel Mehl, Alternative Economy coordinator with the Mexico Solidarity Network, will speak about Zapatista women‚s collective strategies of resistance while discussing the impacts of globalization on women in Mexico and the leadership role that women play in the movement for fair trade and social and economic justice.

BROUGHT TO YOU BY: Evergreen Programs: Feminisms: Local to Global, Political Economy and Social Movements; Evergreen Political Information Center; Women of Color Coalition, St. Martins University’s “Gender, War and Peace in Global Perspective