“SOLIDARITY RESURGENT”
NICARAGUA & U.S. SOLIDARITY CONFERENCE
JULY 13-15, 2007 IN MANAGUA
POLL ON POSSIBLE CONFERENCE TOPICS
Your answers will help the program committee to design a conference that meets the needs and desires of participants. You can copy and paste this poll into an email and return it to rebekah@afgj.org; or you can print a paper copy and return it by fax to 202-544-9355, or by mail to Nicaragua Network, 1247 E Street, SE, Washington, DC 20004. Thanks for your help!
Your Name______________________________________________________________
Organization Name________________________________________________________
Below is a listing of possible topics to be covered at the Nicaragua Solidarity Conference in July 2007, in plenaries, workshops, and other sessions. Put an X in as many as are of interest to you and XX to indicate that you are particularly enthusiastic about a topic.
At the end, please write in any other topics which you'd like to see covered, which aren't listed here. Also indicate whether you or someone in your organization has expertise to offer on any of these topics, which they might share in a conference session. Other comments and suggestions about the conference are also welcome!
_____Working together: US-Nicaragua relations during a new Ortega Presidency
_____The Nicaragua literacy campaigns: 1980, 2005, 2007
_____Increasing community participation in your organization
_____Alternative energy for rural communities
_____Community-based alternative development
_____Material aid: practical ideas, problems, and lessons
_____Material aid as solidarity: How does it impact relationships and economies?
_____Working across our network: What more can our groups do together?
_____ The FSLN's Return to Power: How does that affect solidarity work
Projects:
_____Sustainable development
_____Reforestation: How to start and sustain, what works, what doesn’t
_____Health & medicine: How to start and sustain, what works, what doesn't
_____Microcredit funds: How to start and sustain, what works, what doesn’t
_____Housing and latrine: Carrying them out, ensuring good quality
_____Wells and potable water: alternative water systems
_____Dealing with violence against women
_____Other projects: _________________________________________________________
_____Land reform: yesterday, today and tomorrow
_____Monitoring and exposing U.S. intervention in Nicaragua
_____Liberation theology and Christian base communities in Nicaragua
_____Nicaraguan debt and the call for 100% debt cancellation
_____Working against speculation in Nicaraguan real estate and enterprises
_____The impact of globalization on rural and urban communities
_____"Free" trade vs. fair trade: Nicaraguan coffee, DR-CAFTA
_____Labor issues in Nicaragua
_____Indigenous rights: Land, culture, other
_____Human rights issues in Nicaragua; relationship of human rights to social and economic rights
_____Forestry issues: Illegal logging, deforestation, genetically modified trees
_____Immigration/emigration issues for Nicaraguans
_____ US militarization: Drug War, New Horizons, Base-building and School of the Americas
_____ Venezuela's development support as a counterweight to US hegemony
_____ Sandinismo's two parties – FSLN and MRS: What are the differences and how do they affect international cooperation
_____ Saving the life and health of mothers: Discussing the criminalization of therapeutic abortion
Other conference topics, not listed above, which would interest you:
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Do you or someone in your organization have expertise to offer on any of these topics, which you might share in a conference session? If so, please indicate below.
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