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BRICS-from-below struggles for justice, 19 December |
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Speakers: Thando Manzi, Au Loong Yu and John Devenish
Date: Friday, 19 December 2014
Time: 12:00-14:00 (NEW TIME)
Venue: CCS Seminar Room 602, 6th Floor, MTB Tower, Howard College, UKZN
Topic:
The five BRICS countries - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - have had tumultuous years. In Brazil through most of December, Thando Manzi witnessed the regroupment of progessives in unions, communities and social movements; he compares conditions in favelas to his home of Cato Manor. In Hong Kong, the culmination of the huge democracy protests during November-December included the arrest of Au Loong Yu. In the other BRICS, tens of thousands of protests took place, and John Devenish maintains a brics-from-below observatory of social unrest.
Speakers:
Thando Manzi is a geography student at UKZN and Dennis Brutus Community Scholar; Devenish maintains CCS's website; Au Loong Yu is the editor of China Labor Net and author of China’s Rise: Strength and Fragility (London: Merlin Press, 2013).
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