http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/480604.html

Monday Feb 11 - Boston - John F. Kennedy School of Government in Harvard University (5:00 p.m.) were he will take part in a conference.

Tuesday Feb 12 - Chicago - Visit community leaders.
Anti-immigrant groups think he will visit Adalberto United Methodist Church, which has given sanctuary to undocumented immigrants- there would likely be anti-immigrant protesters there. This source indicates that once in Chicago, he will visit La Villita
http://www.hoyinternet.com/noticias/localidades/chicago/hoy-visitacalderonchicago-0208,0,7653029.story

Wednesday Feb 13 - Sacramento - Besides attending a private lunch hosted by Schwarzenegger and first lady Maria Shriver, Calderón will visit privately with Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez, D-Los Angeles, and address a joint session of the Legislature.

The luncheon for Calderón, who will be accompanied by his wife, Margarita Zavala, will be held at the Sheraton Grand Sacramento Hotel. From here, he will travel to Los Angeles and arrive there in the evening.

http://www.sacbee.com/111/story/697524.html

Thursday Feb 14 - Los Angeles - Visit L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.

by G.S.

There are four main sections that make up this posting:

1. An article I wrote about a surprise (to me) visit to Oaxaca by Manuel Stefanakis of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. The article is critical of the social role of Harvard University, and, unjustly, of Mr. Stefanakis as well.

2. This section contains: first, a note I wrote to Mr. Stefanakis, about whom I knew nothing first-hand, asking if he would be willing to provide information, and second, his very courteous and affirmative reply, which challenged my “assumptions, accusations and misinformation.”

3. The first part of my reply, which begins, “I believe I was unfair to you in my article, and I want to apologize for the errors, both of judgment and fact, that it contained”, and included my commitment to “make the corrections public.”

4. The second part of my reply consists of criticisms and comments I received from correspondents, and a great deal of information about Harvard’s institutional relationship, through endowment funding, with war industry, thanks to the investigations of Brad Bellows. However, none of this information cast the least shadow on Mr. Stefanakis. My letter concluded,

“I want to assure you, Mr. Stefanakis, that it was wrong of me to make critical assumptions about you as an individual without first contacting you and seeking more information than was readily available to me. I assumed ‘guilt by association’, an old and discredited practice. If you do come to Oaxaca again, I would welcome the chance to meet you.”

Read the posting at:
http://site.www.umb.edu/faculty/salzman_g/S2/2007-04-01.htm

PROTEST MEXICAN PRESIDENT FELIPE CALDERON’S
VISIT TO CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts
Monday, February 11, 2008 – 6:00pm
In front of:
Harvard’s John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum
79 JFK Street, Cambridge

Summary:

A growing coalition of local progressive organizations and individuals has decided to protest the policies of the Mexican government represented by its President, Felipe Calderón as he addresses Harvard’s JFK Forum. Calderón came to power after another undemocratic “election” in Mexico. His government continues to repress indigenous people, the labor movement, in particular in Oaxaca, and is responsible, together with the government of the United States for the situation of millions of undocumented Mexican workers in the U.S.

For more information, contact
Suren Moodliar
Massachusetts Global Action
Phone: 617-482-6300

Go to http://site.www.umb.edu/faculty/salzman_g/S2/2008-02-10.htm for the full posting.
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“Mr. Calderón’s coast-to-coast trip begins Sunday with a tour of the northeast corridor – New York City and Boston – followed by stops in Chicago, Sacramento, Calif., and Los Angeles.

On Monday night, Mr. Calderón will deliver an address at his alma mater, Harvard University. Mr. Calderón, a Mason fellow, completed a Master’s of Public Administration at the John F. Kennedy School of Government in 2000.

In New York City, he meets with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon. He postponed a trip to the U.N. last September because of massive floods in the Mexican state of Tabasco.

Mr. Calderón is also scheduled to meet with key political allies, such as New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. He will also meet with Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, a prominent Hispanic leader who endorsed New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Traveling with the Mexican president will be his wife, Margarita Zavala; the governors of Zacatecas, Colima and Guanajuato; as well as Rafael Fernandez de Castro, an expert on international relations.”

http://www.witnessforpeace.org/mexico/planmexicoalert.html
http://noii-van.resist.ca/?p=572
http://www.canadians.org/integratethis/military/2007/Oct-30.html
http://www.dollarsandsense.org/archives/2008/0108sciacchitano.html
http://www.art-us.org/node/254
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/66971/?page=2