SOA & IMF in Nicaragua: Human Rights Delegation Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit source - miller@witnessforpeace.org Witness for Peace Announces SOA, IMF and the War Against the Poor: The History of U.S. Military and Economic Violence Against Nicaragua. A Delegation to Washington, DC & Nicaragua This delegation will experience the world of the marble halls of power in Washington, DC and the muddy barrios that are the reality of Central America. We will meet with senior representatives from the institutions of military and economic power in Washington, and then live with a typical Nicaraguan family to experience what it is like to survive under their policies. For nine days we will live in the world of the oppressed and impoverished and seek to understand how military and economic violence are linked. July 12-15 Washington, DC: Meetings at the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, U.S. State Department and National Security Archives. We will also have briefings from School of the America=92s Watch and other anti-intervention, human rights, labor and faith-based organizations and researchers. July 16-25, Nicaragua: Besides living with a Nicaraguan family we will meet with US officials, officials of the Nicaraguan government, and former officials of the Sandinista era. We will also have meetings and field visits to observe the Washington model of environmental exploitation, and sweatshop labor and its social effects, especially on children and women. We will visit small but hopeful grassroots alternatives to the Washington economic model and be briefed on what were the society-wide alternatives embodied in the Sandinista economic policies. We will also be briefed on the history of the IMF toward Nicaragua dating back to the decades of the U.S. backed Somoza dictatorship. In sum, we will take the past 60-year history of US domination of Nicaragua as a case study of how the institutions of military and economic power shape our world and our lives. We will reflect on what values and interests the CIA and IMF serve. Applications: For an application or further information, contact John Mateyko at 302-645.2657 or the Witness for Peace National office at 202-588-1471 (email: miller@witnessforpeace.org). Application deadline is June 21. Funding: Scholarship funds are very limited, but fundraising consultation is available through the Delegation Leader or the Witness for Peace National office. Applicants needing financial assistance have a track record of raising 100% of the needed funds. ================================================================= NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 http://www.blythe.org e-mail: nyt@blythe.org ================================================================= nytcamer-05.14.99-20:37:30-31830