One week from tonight...Bill Weinberg speaks on ecological campesino resistance in PeruThe Libertarian Book Club,* New York City's oldest continuously activeanarchist institution (founded 1946), kicks off a new season of itsAnarchist Forum series as World War 4 Report editor Bill Weinberg, justreturned from Peru where he was on assignment for The Progressive, speaksabout the Quechua indigenous struggle against US-backed mining projectsand in defense of land, water and autonomy in the Andes.The high Andean region of Cajamarca has been repeatedly paralyzed bygeneral strikes and angry protests in recent months by Quechua peasantsopposed to the US-owned Conga gold mining project, which would mean thedestruction of mountain lakes that protect the watersheds that localcommunities depend on for agriculture. Cajamarca's regional government,with the support of the peasant movement, has declared against theproject—-but the central government in Lima remains intransigent, and ismilitarizing the region. The lines are drawn for a protracted struggle.This is a sequel to the strikes and uprisings in Peru in 2009 over oil andmineral development plans tied to the new Free Trade Agreement withWashington—-itself an echo of the Zapatista revolt in Mexico that followedthe enactment of NAFTA. Peru is now Latin America's second country to bepushed to crisis by an FTA with the US—-and South America's second largestrecipient of US military aid after Colombia. Bill Weinberg will discussthe new peasant struggle in Peru, how US corporate interests are pushingPresident Ollanta Humala towards a hard line, and the prospects forbuilding solidarity.Tuesday May 157:30 PM sharpat the Brecht Forum, 451 West Street(between Bank & Bethune in the West Village)New York City *The Anarchist Forum is a project of the Libertarian Book Club, New York'soldest active anarchist institution, founded by Jewish and Italian exilesfrom fascist Europe in 1946. We are not right-wing, capital-LLibertarians. We are left-wing anarchists. When LBC was founded, the word"libertarian" had not yet been co-opted by the free-market right, and wasbasically a synonym for "anti-authoritarian" or "anarchist." We stubbornlyrefuse to surrender the name.http://ww4report.com/node/11050World War 4 Report Family of Websiteshttp://billweinberg.info/