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Thursday, October 11, 2001
Contact: Peter Bailley
news@knox.edu
309-341-7715
Dorothy Granada, a registered nurse who has been active in women's health issues in Nicaragua, will give a free, public lecture, "Women's Health, Neo-Liberalism and the Challenge of International Solidarity," at 7 p.m., Monday, Oct. 15, in Ferris Lounge, Seymour Union, Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois.
Granada, who won the 1997 International Pfeffer Peace Prize, went to Nicaragua in 1989 to organized a women's clinic and carpentry cooperative. According to Granada, the Nicaraguan government forced her to leave the country and return to the U.S. earlier this year. She also has taught in the University of Texas family medicine program in Galveston, Texas.
The lecture is sponsored by the Knox campus groups Latin American Concerns Committee, Students Against Sexism in Society, Amnesty International, Women's Health Advocacy, and Lo Nuestro.
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