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Another World: Alternative Ways to Globalization
February 28, 2003
Noam Chomsky professor, linguistics, MIT
Leonida Zurita Vargas community organizer, Bolivia
Carolina Contraras Atrevete leader, Somerville High School
Mel King former state representative, D-MA
Lev Grossman-Spivack student, Boston University

Panelists explore alternative and constructive pathways to globalization in "Another World Is Possible", the culminating forum of the Student Research Conference. Speakers iclude Noam Chomsky, Professor of Linguistics at MIT, Mel King, former Massachusetts State Representative, Carolina Contraras, Somerville High School Atrevete organizer, Dayanna Fernandez, Somerville High School Atrevete organizer, Leonida Zurita Vargas, Quechua Community organizer from Rural Bolivia, and moderator Melissa Chabran, student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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