CAFE SIMPATICO  SEPTEMBER 27

Doors open at 7 pm with live music at 7:30 pm   Program starts at 8 pm

1923 Fernwood Road.  Info: 250 595-7519 Admission by donation  Refreshments  Fair trade coffee for sale

CASC is pleased to host JAY HARTLING as our guest speaker at the first CAFE of the fall season.

A graduate of Simon Fraser University in Latin American Studies; she has a Master’s in Public Policy from U. of Victoria

JAY will speak on “CHANGE in LATIN AMERICA”

Jay worked in policy planning in Nova Scotia before living in Central America. She works as a writer, journalist, political analyst and consultant; her work has taken her to Bolivia, Chile, Peru, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Guatemala and El Salvador.

She has been living in San Salvador for 2 years where she has worked with the Vice-President’s Commission on Social Justice. This commission, run by unpaid volunteers, works with the poorest of communities in El Salvador, supporting local economic and social initiatives. CASC has contributed to one of these projects which was visited by CASC members in 2012.

For some of her writing see:

http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2009/hartling310509.html

http://www.greenleft.org.au/taxonomy/term/760

http://www.handsoffvenezuela.org/el_salvador_albaphobia.htm