Spring 2005 Speakers

April 4, 8:30 pm: Juliette Beck – California Director, Water For All Campaign, of Public Citizen will lead a discussion after the film Thirst.  Juliette Beck joined the staff of Public Citizen's West Coast office in July, 2002 to spearhead the California Water for All Campaign which aims to protect the right to clean, affordable water by increasing public oversight and stopping the privatization of this essential resource. Prior to joining Public Citizen, Juliette worked for Global Exchange, a human rights organization, to advocate for fair and democratic trade policies that protect the environment and the rights of workers and communities. From 1997-1999, Juliette coordinated the California Fair Trade Campaign and was a leading organizer of the historic protests against the World Trade Organization in 1999 and the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund in 2000. Juliette has also worked as an environmental remediation specialist for Ogiso Environmental. She received her B.S. in Environmental Studies at the University of California at Berkeley in 1994.

April 11, 8:30 pm: Charlotte Casey - will lead a discussion after the film Landless.  Charlotte is a San Jose peace activist who lived in Brazil from 1966 to 1968. She is a member of Friends of the MST, a national non-profit organization that supports Brazil's Landless Workers Movement (MST) by setting up speaking tours for MST activists, disseminating information about the MST to the general public, and assisting the MST with translations, fund-raising, and other support activities.

April 18, 8:30 pm: Antonia Juhasz – Project Director, International Forum on Globalization will speak and lead a discussion after the film Money.   The International Forum on Globalization (IFG) is an alliance of eighty leading international activists, scholars, economists, researchers and writers, representing over 60 organizations in 25 countries, formed in 1994 to stimulate new thinking, joint activity, and public education to counter and provide real-life alternatives to corporate-led globalization. Antonia directs several IFG programs, including Alternatives to Economic Globalization, Globalization and Water, and Media Outreach. She is an expert on all aspects of international trade and investment policy from the World Trade Organization (WTO) to the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). She is co-author of Alternatives to Economic Globalization: a Better World is Possible, 2nd Edition (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2004), the author of the IFG publication; “Does Globalization Help the Poor?” and received a 2004 Project Censored award for her article, “Ambitions of Empire: the Radical Reconstruction of Iraq’s Economy,” in LeftTurn magazine. Antonia is a passionate speaker and also a prolific and well published author, with articles and opinion pieces appearing in dozens of publications including the New York Times, the Washington Post, Cambridge University Review of International Relations Journal, San Francisco Bay Guardian, The Star – Johannesburg, South Africa, Multinational Monitor and Tikkun magazine. Antonia holds a Masters Degree in Public Policy from Georgetown University and an undergraduate degree in Public Policy from Brown University.

May 23, 8:30 pm: Steve Morse – Program Coordinator for In the late 60's, as a conscientious objector, he did alternative service which included involvement with the San Francisco Draft Resistance Union and anti-war outreach to GI's. In 1969, he joined the Army to be part of GI resistance, and was an activist during six months of stockade confinement, four months in Vietnam, and a year of stateside duty. He acted as his own attorney in special courts-martial for distributing dissident literature on base.  For many years, he has been active in anti-war veterans' organizations, including Veterans for Peace, Veteran Speakers' Alliance and Vietnam Veterans Against the War. In 1999, he joined the board of CCCO and became a volunteer on the GI Rights Hotline.