February 6, 2006
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Pat Harris
(805) 542-0452, (805)440-4426
pat@sloevents.com
Provocative Perspectives Speaker to Discuss
‘Sweet Charity and Smart Bombs’ at Cal Poly March 7
SAN LUIS OBISPO – Cal Poly’s Provocative Perspectives
series will commemorate International Women’s Day with the
presentation, “Foreign Aid: Sweet Charity and Smart Bombs,”
by Anuradha Mittal.
Mittal, executive director of The Oakland Institute, a think tank
that works to promote social and economic policy, will address the
issues of foreign aid and trade. The free event will take place
in the Vista Grande Café at Cal Poly, beginning with breakfast
at 7:30 a.m., followed by the lecture at 8 a.m.
Mittal will examine U.S. foreign aid through the lens of economic
and social human rights, with specific focus on food aid and its
impact on women. Using the case study of Niger, a nation widely
covered in the news recently due to widespread hunger and destitution,
Mittal will share new perspectives on famines, how they affect women
and some opportunities for taking action. She will also make available
copies of the Oakland Institute’s new study, “Food Aid
or Food Sovereignty: Ending World Hunger in Our Time.”
Mittal is a native of India and an internationally renowned expert
on trade, development, human rights, democracy and agriculture issues.
Prior to founding the Oakland Institute, she spent nearly a decade
at Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy and was
the co-director of that organization from 2000-2004. Mittal is the
author and editor of numerous books on globalization and its impact
on poor countries, as well as a number of articles on bioengineering
and world trade. She has appeared on television and radio around
the world.
This event (including breakfast) is free and open to the public;
reservations are required. For more information or to make reservations,
call Liz Cofer at 756-0327 or e-mail lcofer@calpoly.edu.
For more information on the Provocative Perspective series, visit
the Web site http://www.calpoly.edu/~saffairs.
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