Student Action with Farmworkers (SAF), the Student Association for Latin America (SALA), and the Latin American Studies Program (LASP) invite you to a conversation with Daysi Granados.

Daysi Granados is a teacher in the Center for Agrarian Education and Training (CEPA) and a community activist. She'll speak October 11at the USC Nursing Auditorium in Room 133 from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.

She will also speak at Columbia College from 1 to 2:30 p.m. at the Breed Leadership Center, Room 302, and at Shandon Presbyterian Church from 7 to 8:30 p.m.

As a Witness for Peace speaker, she will talk about the way in which the privatization of Nicaragua's electricity has had a harmful impact on her own community; the projected effects of "free" trade in rural Nicaragua; and the ongoing struggle of Nicaraguan civil society to prevent the privatization of water resources.

The U.S.-promoted privatization of electricity and telephone service has brought unaffordable hikes in the cost of these services to both the rural and urban poor. Now the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank are moving to privatize Nicaragua’s water distribution system. Ms. Granados’s community of Ramon Garcia is working with other groups to block passage of this bill in Nicaragua’s legislature.

The current economic model promoted by the United States, the IMF and the World Bank is causing growing poverty even while prosperity continues in some sectors. U.S. trade policies have devastated subsistence farmers, causing massive emigration from their own countries and immigration into the U.S. IMF and World Bank structural adjustment policies have caused people throughout the hemisphere to lose health care and educational opportunities even at the primary level, affirm spokespersons from Witness for Peace.

Events will take place in four Virginia cities, three cities in North Carolina, four in Kentucky, three in Tennessee, and four in our state. Ms. Granados will speak in numbers of colleges and universities including William and Mary, Clemson and Winthrop Universities and the University of South Carolina, the University of Kentucky, Berea College, and Columbia College.

Witness for Peace is a politically independent grassroots organization, which is committed to non-violent means for resolution of conflicts and which is led by faith and conscience. Its mission is to support peace, justice and sustainable economies in the Americas by altering U.S. policies and corporate practices that contribute to poverty and oppression in Latin America.

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