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<p align="center"><font size="4"><strong>Bolivarian Circle of Boston </strong></font></p>
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you to</font></h1>
<p class="content" align="center">a panel discussion at </p>
<p class="content" align="center">Encuentro5, 33 Harrison Ave.</p>
<p class="content" align="center">Chinatown, Boston</p>
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<h3 class="content"><font color="#000000">The Global Economic Crisis:
from North to South</font></h3>
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<h3 class="content">Venezuelan scholar-diplomat Escalona discusses
crisis w/ a stellar panel of economists</h3>
<p class="content"><b>Friday, June 12, 2009, 7:00 p.m.</b> Venezuela's
Adjunct Ambassador to the United Nations and economist Julio Escalona
returns to e5 to address the global economic crisis and preview the
upcoming UN Assembly's Special Session on the crisis. Joining the
conversation are Richard Freeman (Harvard's National Bureau of Economic
Research), Julie Matthaei (Wellesley College) and Arthur MacEwan (UMass
Boston). Details, biographies & flyer to follow.</p>
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<p class="content"><b>Richard Freeman</b> holds the Herbert Ascherman
Chair in Economics at <a href="http://www.economics.harvard.edu/%22">Harvard
University</a>. He is currently serving as Faculty Director of the <a
href="http://www.encuentro5.org/home/node/harvard">Labor and Worklife
Program</a> at the Harvard Law School. He is also director of the Labor
Studies Program at the <a href="http://www.nber.org/">National Bureau
of Economic Research</a>,
Senior Research Fellow in Labour Markets at the London School of
Economics' Centre for Economic Performance, and visiting professor at
the London School of Economics.</p>
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<strong>Julie Matthaei</strong> has been
active in anti-war, feminist, ecology, lesbian/gay, and anti-racist
movement in the U.S. since she went to college at Stanford in 1969, and
is a big fan of (and participant in) the <a
href="http://www.worldsocialforum.org/">Social Forum</a> movement. She
has been teaching economics – including Feminist Economics – at <a
href="hhttp://www.Wellesley.edu/">Wellesley College</a> for 30 years.
Julie has written two books on gender in U.S. economic history, <a
href="http://www.amazon.com/Economic-History-Women-America-Development/dp/0805207449">An
Economic History of Women in America</a> (1982) and, with Teresa Amott,
<a
href="http://www.amazon.com/Race-Gender-Work-Multi-Cultural-Economic/dp/0896085376/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1243797259&sr=1-1">Race,
Gender and Work: A Multicultural Economic History of Women in the U.S.</a>
(1996), and has been researching and writing about feminist economic
transformation with Barbara Brandt for the past seven years. </div>
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<div class="content"><strong>Arthur MacEwan</strong> has been a member
of the faculty of the <a
href="http://www.umb.edu/academics/cla/dept/economics/index.html">UMass
Economics Department</a>
since 1975, teaching courses on economic development, macroeconomics,
the economics of education, Latin America, American Economic History
and Marxist economics. He is also a Senior Fellow in the <a
href="http://www.mccormack.umb.edu/centers/csp/">Center for Social
Policy</a>
at UMass Boston. His writing focuses primarily on issues of
international development, but his current research also focuses on the
economics of education. His most recent book is <a
href="http://www.amazon.com/Neo-Liberalism-Democracy-Economic-Strategy-Alternatives/dp/1856497259">NEOLIBERALISM
OR DEMOCRACY? Economic Strategy, Markets and Alternatives for the 21st
Century</a>, published by <a
href="http://zedbooks.co.uk/index.asp?pageid=home">Zed Books</a>
(London) in 1999.</div>
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<div class="content">For more information visit E5 website:</div>
<div class="content"><a href="http://www.encuentro5.org/home/node/96">http://www.encuentro5.org/home/node/96</a></div>
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Jorge Marin CB-Martin Luther King, Jr. Boston,
MA The Bolivarian Circles in the USA seek to inform the american public
of what is really going on in Venezuela. We respect the laws of the US
and we aim to improve the relations between our two countries.<br>
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