|
EVENTOS
#34
IV
Curso de Posgrado "Ambiente, Economía y Sociedad" 2002
FLACSO
Argentina/Brasil/Chile/Costa Rica/Cuba/Ecuador/El
Salvador/Guatemala/México/República Dominicana
Creada por la UNESCO en 1957
Facultad Latinoamericana de
Ciencias Sociales
Sede Académica Argentina
IV Curso de Posgrado
"Ambiente, Economía y Sociedad" 2002
Modalidad a distancia/intensivo: 4 al 29 de
noviembre de 2002
DIRIGIDO A: graduados y próximos a
graduarse (marzo 2003), interesados en una especialización de posgrado en la
problemática ambiental con un enfoque interdisciplinario. Son bienvenidos los
que provengan del área ambiental de empresas privadas, actividad docente y de
investigación, oficinas gubernamentales y de ONGs, que requieran
perfeccionamiento y/o actualización de sus conocimientos.
OBJETIVOS: se espera que a la
finalización del curso, los participantes estén en condiciones de identificar
las principales características del impacto ambiental de la actividad humana en
la sociedad actual, y sus proyecciones en el tiempo según diversos escenarios
posibles; establecer con precisión, teórica y prácticamente, las causas que
han llevado a la humanidad a la actual encrucijada ambiental y, por último,
incorporar conocimientos específicos que sean de utilidad para la formación y
la práctica profesionales, tanto a nivel individual como institucional.
DOCENTES INVITADOS: Jorge Adámoli
(Ecología Regional/Exactas y Naturales - UBA); Nora Bär (Diario La Nación);
Carlos Barrera (ex-Comisión Europea); Antonio Brailovsky (Defensoría Ambiental
Bs. As.); Sibila Camps (Diario Clarín); Osvaldo Canziani (Panel
Intergubernamental. de Cambio Climático); Roberto Fernández (Arquitectura -
UBA/Univ. Nac. Mar del Plata); Mario Fittipaldi (UTN - La Plata); Silvia Fulco
(GTZ-Agencia Cooperación Argentino Alemana-CIPRA); Felipe González Arzac
(Época-USAL-Carlos III-Sorbona); Daniel Sabsay (FARN); Alejandro San Martín
(Agencia TÉLAM); María C. Saucede (CETA/Veterinaria - UBA); Eduardo Vior
(Wolksburg Universität/Alemania).
COORDINADOR: Horacio Fazio (FLACSO)
PROGRAMA SINTÉTICO: Constitución,
ambiente y participación ciudadana; Derecho ambiental; Cambio climático
global; Actividad económica y recursos limitados; Economía y política
ambiental; Comercio internacional y ambiente; Recuperación productiva de
ecozonas degradadas; Manejo sustentable de recursos forestales; Desarrollo
sustentable y conservación de ecosistemas; El complejo mundial de la soja;
efectos sociales y ambientales; Biotecnología, ambiente y desarrollo;
Bioseguridad alimentaria y transgénicos; Políticas urbanas y ambiente;
conceptos y aplicaciones; Gestión municipal de residuos sólidos urbanos;
Evaluación de impacto ambiental industrial; Ambiente y medios de comunicación.
METODOLOGÍA: los participantes
recibirán en 20 envíos por e-mail el contenido de 28 clases desgrabadas y
editadas (84 hs. cátedra) correspondientes al curso desarrollado entre abril y
noviembre de 2002. Podrán efectuarse preguntas por e-mail a los docentes desde
el 4/11 al 15/12, que serán respondidas por igual vía. Para acceder al
Certificado de Aprobación, los participantes tendrán plazo hasta el 14/2/03
para el envío de los resúmenes de las 28 clases (500 palabras cada uno) y la
presentación de un trabajo monográfico (7 a 10 carillas), ambos evaluables.
AUSPICIOS: El curso está auspiciado
desde su primera edición en 1999 por la Secretaría de Desarrollo Sustentable y
Política Ambiental de la República Argentina.
ARANCELES: Argentina, 1 pago de $350;
otros países, 1 pago de u$s150.
PROGRAMA ANALÍTICO Y CURSOS ANTERIORES: www.flacso.org.ar
FORMULARIO DE INSCRIPCION: Clickear
aquí.
OTRAS CONSULTAS: ambienteflacso@data54.com
Inicio de página
Support
the ILWU & Fight Taft-Hartley!
November 7th Oakland Protest Against
Taft-Hartley Injunction
SAVE THE DATE! Please pass on!
The Coalition for Workers' Rights has called a
march & rallies for November 7th, to protest the Taft-Hartley injunction
against the dockworkers, and unconscionable delays and anti-worker attitudes in
negotiations for workers at the Oakland Tribune and City of Oakland.
The Coalition for Workers' Rights is made up of
the ILWU Locals 10 and 34, SEIU 790, No CA Media Workers, Teamsters 70, Central
Labor Council, and many community supporters (apologies if I have left anyone
out!). All these groups are supporting each other in labor struggles. The march
will travel around downtown Oakland stopping for rallies at the offices
involved, starting at 11:30 am and going until about 2:00 pm. A flyer will be
available shortly. Call the Alameda CLC at (510) 632-4242 or the involved unions
for copies.
For more information, contact Susan Chacin
at schacin@igc.org
Inicio de página
A
Call For Action!
National Labor Conference Against
Taft-Hartley & Union-Busting
(December 7, 2002 -- Mission High School, San Francisco)
Dear Brothers & Sisters,
We invite you and your union to participate with
us in a national labor conference on Saturday, December 7, 2002 in San Francisco
at Mission High School.
The use of the Taft-Hartley Act by the Bush
administration against the International Longshore and Warehouse Union is a shot
across the bow for organized labor. Following an 11-day lockout initiated by the
Pacific Maritime Association, the government is now acting as an enforcer for
these union-busters. The Bush crew admits it was having private meetings with
some of the biggest "union-free" corporations in America to plan
strategy on how to defeat the ILWU.
But the ILWU is not the only target. According
to the Wall Street Journal (October 11, 2002), the Bush administration is
considering the possibility of invoking Taft-Hartley against the United Auto
Workers union when their contracts expire next year. The same is true for many
other unions. They will seek to justify this because of their war plans in Iraq.
AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Richard Trumka
lambasted the administration's use of Taft-Hartley: "If all employers know
the administration will rush in with Taft-Hartley to give them what they
want," Trumka stated, "they'll plot and scheme together, they'll
figure out what to do, and then the [collective-bargaining] process will be
gutted. The employers won't come and bargain in good faith because there is no
incentive to."
When Taft-Hartley was first passed in 1947,
Phillip Murray of the CIO, called it "a Slave Labor Act." This was no
exaggeration. Jim Spinosa, president of the ILWU, has pointed out that, "We
fully expect PMA to use all the anti-union provisions of the Taft-Hartley
injunction. ... Taft-Hartley gives them 80 days of free shots at the union, and
we expect the employers will be dragging us to court daily, trying to bankrupt
the union and throw our leaders in jail."
The Bush cabal is now intent on busting the
ILWU, just as Reagan did with the PATCO union in 1981. Bush is already seeking
to eliminate union rights for 170,000 federal workers with his union-busting
"Homeland Security" Department, forcing major wage and contract
concessions on tens of thousands of airline workers, including binding
"baseball arbitrations." He is intent on taking away every right and
condition won by labor during the last 50 years.
Bush also intends to use his drive toward war to
justify outlawing strike action. The proposed Maritime Security Act and other
such repressive measures are aimed at weakening and destroying organized labor.
When the war starts in Iraq, he may seek to militarize the docks to break the
ILWU. He has now thrown down the gauntlet to all of organized labor.
The QUESTION is what will organized labor and
the communities do to answer this challenge?
Only with your help and that of your union can
we avoid being sitting ducks as the Bush administration plans to break our
unions. At our conference, we plan to discuss and lay out a fight-back strategy
that includes education, media strategies and action to defend the ILWU and
other unions that come under attack. This will include the fight against
union-busting (not only with the Taft-Hartley in maritime but other
transportation industries), privatization, contracting-out and the struggle to
organize the millions of unorganized workers.
We need to prepare now to go on the offensive.
We cannot allow the ILWU to be picked off and then for Bush to go after the next
union. We plan to have workshops on Taft-Hartley, the Maritime Security Act,
Developing A Labor Media Campaign, Organizing the Unorganized and Immigrant
Workers , and how to develop a strategy to take on these robber barons. We need
to be ready now for action when the Taft-Hartley injunction against the
longshore workers expires. We also need to learn the lessons of the successful
fight for the Charleston 5 in South Carolina, and build on this not only
nationally but internationally.
You and your union can play an important part in
this effort. Please endorse this conference and send delegates. Also a financial
contribution to make this conference a success is absolutely critical.
We are also planning to have a Northern
California Transportation Workers Solidarity Rally on the evening of December 7
and hope you can attend this as well. The rally will also be held at Mission
High School in San Francisco.
Please let us know if you can endorse this
conference and how many delegates will be attending. We are asking for a
registration of $25 a delegate. Also please contact us if you are interested in
getting regular information on the battle against Taft-Hartley and union-busting
and if you want to be on our email list.
In Solidarity,
ILWU Local 10
MEBA
GCIU Local 4
Port Workers Solidarity Committee
Please Send Registrations/Endorsements & To
Get More Information Contact
PSC
P.O. Box 15086
San Francisco, CA 94115
(415) 820-3927
Email solidarity1934_2002@hotmail.com
www.portsolidarity2002.org
Inicio de página
December
7th Conference Endorsement/Registration Coupon
[ ] Please list me/my union or organization as
an endorser of the December 7th Conference Against Taft-Hartley and
Union-Busting. [Note: International endorsements are strongly encouraged.]
[ ] I will send my/our registration fee of $25
for the Conference to the Portworkers Solidarity Committee address, which is
PSC, P.O. Box 15086, San Francisco, CA 94115.
NAME
UNION or ORGANIZATION (list for id. only or
organizational endorsement)
ADDRESS
CITY
STATE
ZIP
COUNTRY
TEL
EMAIL
(clip and return to OWC, with a copy to the PSC
at solidarity1934_2002@hotmail.com)
Inicio de página
PMA
Alleges Slowdowns, Files Suit with Justice Dept.
"West Coast Port Employers Cite
Slowdown"
By REUTERS
Filed at 4:04 p.m. ET -- October, 23, 2002
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - West Coast port
employers on Wednesday charged union dockworkers with engaging in a ``concerted,
systematic work slowdown'' and asked the U.S. Department of Justice to
intervene.
The 10,500 members of the International
Longshore and Warehouse Union returned to work on Oct. 9 under an emergency
federal court order after President Bush invoked the Taft-Hartley act.
``These debilitating actions by the union come
despite a court requirement to resume work at a normal and reasonable rate of
speed,'' said the Pacific Maritime Association, which represents terminal
operators and shippers at the 29 West Coast ports. The PMA said in a statement
it had turned over detailed data showing a drop in port productivity to the
Justice Department for action.
The PMA has said it could go back to court to
seek a contempt finding against the union if the longshoremen did not cooperate
in working to clear the massive backlog of cargo that piled up during a 10-day
management lockout.
The union has blamed the PMA for not adequately
staffing the docks since the ports reopened.
Inicio de
página
|
