Press Advisory, February 20, 2008

2/20/08

Press Contact
Jason Pramas, Media Coordinator
Massachusetts Global Action
617-482-6300
media@evoinboston.org

Bolivian President Evo Morales to Speak Next Tuesday (2/26) In Boston

BOSTON—The President of Bolivia, Evo Morales, has just announced that he will give a speech next Tuesday, February 26th at 7 p.m. at the Arlington Street Church (corner of Arlington and Boylston Sts.).

A coalition of local community-based organizations has organized this event at the request of President Morales--who is visiting the United States as a private citizen at the invitation of the Carter Center.

The President is planning to speak on the following themes:

• the struggle to build a new nation,
• how the coca leaf represents the Andean culture, the environment and the hope of the people,
• what the "rule of law" means for indigenous people and what community justice really is,
• the new thinking on anti-imperialism and anti-neoliberalism
• the meaning of democracy within the sphere of indigenous wisdom.

Information on a press conference with President Morales and media credentialing will be forthcoming in subsequent releases.


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