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<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">TUBMAN
SEMINAR SERIES </span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"></span></p>
<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> Judith
Marshall, "Extractive industries in Mozambique: the case of
Brazil’s Vale" </span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"></span></p>
<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> Wednesday,
March 16, 2011 12:00 – 13:30 YRT 830 </span></b></p>
<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"></span></b><span
style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Dr. Judith Marshall is a labour
educator and writer who works in the Global Affairs and Local
Issues Department of the United Steelworkers. She has been
actively involved in building global networks for many years,
along with organizing popular education programmes on global
issues. </span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Prior to
joining the Steelworkers, Dr. Marshall worked for several
years as a co-operant in Mozambique and has extensive
experience working with trade unions in Canada, Mozambique and
Brazil, giving her a unique insight into the workings of
transnational corporations, including Brazil’s Vale. Vale is
the world’s second largest mining company and has recently
expanded into Mozambique and Guinea-Conakry. Vale’s Canadian
workforce in Sudbury and Voisey’s Bay was recently on strike
for over a year. </span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Dr. Marshall
was also a founding member of TCLSAC (Toronto Committee for
the Liberation of Southern Africa). The TCLSAC archive is now
hosted in the Tubman Institute. </span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">The seminar
will focus on the mining activities of Vale in the north of
Mozambique. </span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"> The following
is an abstract of her talk: </span></p>
<p class="Default" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span
style="font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span><b><span style="font-size:
11.5pt;">Tracking the misdeeds of Canadian corporations like
Barrick or Goldcorps in the south is an old story, one
eminently worth retelling albeit problematic. A rights
discourse based on spaces defined by national boundaries
seems curiously at variance with today’s powerful corporate
and government actors promoting a discourse of global issues
and global supply chains. </span></b><span
style="font-size: 11.5pt;"></span></p>
<p class="Default" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><b><span
style="font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="Default" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><b><span
style="font-size: 11.5pt;">For unions like the USW, which
represents the Canadian workers in the four newly-acquired
operations of Brazil’s Vale, tracking the misdeeds of a
southern corporation introduces a new story. In learning to
tell it, the USW has had much to learn ranging from Vale’s
still contested transition from state company to private
hands at home in Brazil and Vale’s global reach. </span></b><span
style="font-size: 11.5pt;"></span></p>
<p class="Default" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><b><span
style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Not least of the lessons is how
Vale, like other global mining companies, chooses to wrap
itself in the national flags as it courts foreign
governments. Social identities </span></b><span
style="font-size: 11.5pt;"></span></p>
<p class="Default" style="margin-left: 36pt; page-break-before:
always;"><b><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">shaped through
post-colonial discourses clearly came into play as Lula
openly urged the Mozambique government to opt for Vale.
While Brazil’s affinity with Africa shaped by diaspora
politics may have prompted the Lula government to promise
increased development links with Africa, it is not by
accident that the much touted project to produce AIDS drugs
has been slow to materialize while Vale’s new megaproject in
mining has burgeoned forward, with the first coal exports to
start by mid-year. </span></b><span style="font-size:
11.5pt;"></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">This week’s
seminar is co-sponsored by Tubman and CERLAC’s Brazilian
Studies Seminar. Please note that this week only the seminar
will take place on a Wednesday rather than the usual Tuesday,
to accommodate the Brazil Studies Seminar schedule. </span></p>
<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Room 830,
York Research Tower, York University </span></b><span
style="font-size: 16pt;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Wednesday,
Mar 16, 2011 - 12:00 - 13:30</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Frank J. Luce LLB, PhD</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Coordinator</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Harriet Tubman Institute</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family:
Consolas;">323 York Lanes </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family:
Consolas;">York University </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family:
Consolas;">4700 Keele Street</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family:
Consolas;">Toronto Canada M3J 1P3</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family:
Consolas;">416.736.2100 X 33714</span></p>
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