3rd Annual Empire & Solidarity in the Americas Conference

Post-Central America Solidarities

University of New Orleans
October 15-16, 2010

The Central America solidarity movement of the 1980s drew on pre-existing organizations, ideas, and traditions, created its own new forms of thinking and organization, and left important legacies for the movements that succeeded and grew out of it. This conference will explore how different post-1980s solidarity-oriented movements were shaped by, or consciously modeled themselves upon, the Central America movements. What are the historical continuities and discontinuities between the people, strategies, traditions, and organizations that comprised Central American solidarity in the 1980s and subsequent struggles around maquiladoras in Mexico and Central America, the anti-sweatshop movement, corporate campaigns, immigrant rights, environmental justice, solidarity with Colombia, and many others? We are particularly interested in papers that look at labor and solidarity, from both U.S. and Latin American perspectives.

Paper proposals should include a 100-200 word abstract and a 1-page CV, and be submitted to striffler@hotmail.com & achomsky@salemstate.edu by April 1, 2010.

For questions or more information,contact Avi at achomsky@salemstate.edu.