The Mexico Solidarity Network Presents:
Ciudad Juarez: the definitive neoliberal city with Verónica Leyva
Verónica Leyva is a grassroots organizer in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. She spent ten years working in the maquiladora industry, and has been organizing in her community for fifteen years conducting workshops on worker's and women's rights.
Verónica Leyva Lecture:
Friday, February 4
12:15 p.m.
Eck Visitors Center Auditorium
(Light reception 11:30 a.m.)
*Students*
Please join us
Friday, February 4
3:00 p.m.
Geddes Hall Coffeehouse
for an informal discussion
over coffee with
Verónica Leyva
Grassroots organizing in response to:
• Drug Trafficking
• Gendered Violence
• the Merida Initiative
• Maquiladoras
Sponsored by the Migrants’ Transnational Civic Engagement and Political Participation in the Americas Working Group, Center for Social Concerns, Gender Studies, Institute for Latino Studies, Poverty Studies, and Kellogg Institute for International Studies
For more information: latino@nd.edu