The Civic Media Center’s annual “SpringBoard” fundraiser is set for Friday April 11th from 6pm to 10 pm. The location will be different this year—we will be moving the event to the Matheson Museum at 513 E. University Ave.
In addition to the usual vast spread of fine food from area restaurants, the art and services available for silent auction, and door prizes, we will have a very special guest speaker, Otton Solis, speaking on the topic of “Corporate Media and Resisting the Washington Consensus,” followed by Q & A.
Otton Solis is a visiting scholar at the University of Florida from his native Costa Rica. An outspoken critic of the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) and US-driven “neoliberal” policies of rampant privatization, Mr. Solis, an economist, is the founder, president and two-time presidential candidate of Costa Rica’s Citizen Action Party, which narrowly lost to President Oscar Arias in 2006 (by 1%). Mr. Solis is also a strong advocate for ethics in government. He is the author of two books on the subject, as well as many articles and opinion pieces.
WHEN: Friday, April 11 @ 6pm
WHERE: The Matheson Museum, 513 E. University Ave.
COST: $10 advance (tickets available at Omni Books and Wild Iris Books), $15 at the door
Oscar Arias,on C-Span,with 4 other Nobel recipients,said that the US is always looking for an enemy because war is busines.And,promised that he would help,with14 other recipients,sais he was working on an International code of conduct.The topic on C-Span was called ‘The Art of Peace”.Then he was called in to the Pentagon for a briefing and was convinced to change that logic and,just as an example,to push CAFTA-that would allow as a trade commodity:depleted uranium to be staged and manufactured in “constitutionally neutral” Costa Rica.The Channel 4 and Channel 14 TV producer,Maria Vargas,was personally threatened as she contined to show ballot after ballot”found” at numberous dump cites.The fix was in from the Arias administration and the Costa Rican people knew this fraud.They demanded a referendum and that was carefully rigged.He Oscar has been the victim of economic hitman.The drugs floated in to various costal locations to create a pretext for the creation of a Coast Guard station now being built in Puntarenas.Otton Solis knows the truth…support people like him and ,of course,Dr.Pablo Ortega from UCR and go to his documentary,Costa Rica,S.A.[corporation] See you later
Oh,Yeah,Ortega’s film is on You Tube………tom schmidt