Saturday 18 September: Saturday September 18th
University of London Union,
Malet Street, London WC1. Nearest tube Goodge Street
Doors open (registration) 10.00
Seminar — 11.00 until 5.30.

Speakers to include: Hugo Blanco, Caroline Lucas MP (invited), Diana Raby, Derek Wall, Stuart Piper, Grace Livingstone, Amanda Latimer.
Entrance: In advance £12.00 (£4.00 unwaged). At the door £15.00
(£6.00 unwaged). Send a cheque made out to Lucha Indigena to
PO Box 62732, London SW2 9GQ.

Hugo Blanco is a historic leader of the Peruvian peasant movement, who has been active for more than fifty years. In the 1960s he played a central part in the ‘Land or Death’ peasant uprising in the southern highlands of Peru. Today Hugo Blanco is the editor of the Cusco based newspaper Lucha Indigena, and part of the purpose of the tour is to raise funds for that publication. The indigenous organisation Aidesep have been intense conflict with the neo-liberal Peruvian government for several years, fighting to prevent the Amazon rainforest from being sold to oil and gas corporations. In 2009 Peruvian military police massacred indigenous activist at Bagua, Hugo Blanco will report on this struggle and the wider struggles of indigenous people in Latin America.

Hugo Blanco has been brought to Britain by two ecosocialist organisations Socialist Resistance and Green Left.
http://www.luchaindigena.com

A biography of Hugo Blanco can be found here www.sfu.ca/las/news/documents/Biography_HugoBlanco.pdf

MORE INFO: Terry Conway terryconway@tiscali.co.uk

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