Subject: [Stop-traffic] Presentation/LA: Modern Slavery In Mauritania (talk Friday 10/27, etc.)
From: by way of Melanie Orhant (ljr@ljr.net )
Date: Mon Oct 23 2000 - 22:11:12 EDT
Please join us for a special discussion of
MODERN SLAVERY IN MAURITANIA
with Mauritanian political activist
MESSAOUD OULD BOULKHEIR
on Friday evening, October 27th , 7 PM
Upstairs at the Bookstore Building (Winnett Hall), Club Room 1
Free parking on Holliston (on the street or in the Caltech parking
structure), south of Del Mar (1 block west of Hill). Winnett
is south-west of where Holliston and San Pasqual meet.
Boulkheir, a former slave himself, is the president of El Hor,
the oldest anti-slavery organization in Mauritania. He will
discuss his work to end slavery, to establish a culture of
democracy and ethnic tolerance, and to promote economic justice
in the west African country of Mauritania.
Special note to members of AI Group 22 -- our book discussion
group selection for April this year, "Disposable People: New Slavery
In the Global Economy" by Kevin Bales, devoted a chapter to the
persistence of slavery in Mauritania, with extensive references to
the work of Boulkheir's organization with freed and escaped slaves.
Co-sponsored by:
American Friends Service Committee
Amnesty International Group 22 (Pasadena/Caltech)
Caltech Y
Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking
Other local speaking events:
Thursday evening, 10/26, 7-8:30 PM, Occidental College
Johnson Hall, Room 200, 1600 Campus Road, Eagle Rock (LA)
Friday morning, 10/27, 8:30-10 AM, Interfaith Prayer Breakfast
760 South Westmoreland (near Wilshire and Western), Los Angeles
Saturday afternoon, 10/28, 4:30-6 PM, Midnight Special Bookstore
1318 3rd St. (between Santa Monica and Arizona, on the Promenade), Santa Monica
Sunday morning, 10/29, 11:15 AM, All Saints Church
132 North Euclid (between Union and Walnut) in Sweetland Hall, Pasadena
For further information please contact:
Larry Romans 310-452-2089 (AI Group 22) or
Carmen Morgan 626-791-1978 ext.141 (AFSC)
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