To hear critics of US health care reform talk, Canada is a hellhole of socialized medicine, with Canadians sneaking across the border to get treatment their government forbids. Most Canadians ask “You talking about us?” We should ask: “What can we learn from our neighbors? (more…)
10 million people die each year from diseases with available cures, and nearly 1/3 of humanity does not have regular access to essential medicines. Find out about the challenges facing access to essential medicines in IU-affiliated countries, what IU is doing to address them, and what you can do to help (that doesn’t necessarily involve a $2,000.00 round trip!). (more…)
Sometimes it seems that Barack Obama’s main constructive foreign policy message is: “I like Dick Lugar.” Come to Marian college to find out why this is not a bad argument when Senator Lugar delivers his first public speech to the renamed Richard G. Lugar Franciscan Center for Global Studies. (more…)
Craig Auchter of Butler University used to hang out with Sandinistas … he ought to be particularly well-equipped to talk about why Latin America has been electing socialists to power. (more…)
For an idea of what Jesus would do about illegal immigration, just read the New Testament. Pretty doubtful he’d be talking about evicting the poor and vulnerable. Of course some might say it’s also doubtful Christ would be considered a Christian today. Maybe a diverse panel of religious and political leaders can help make sense of this puzzlement. (more…)
Some very bright analysts of international relations are teaching in the smaller colleges and universities of Indiana, refining their insights far from the distractions of DC (or even of Bloomington and Lafayette). Hear what they have to say at the Indiana Consortium for International Programs (ICIP) conference. (more…)
Jeffrey Schott combines a balanced perspective about international trade grounded in careful attention to facts and evidence with the ability to explain complicated issues in ways that even members of Congress can understand … which is why he has had so much influence on public and elite perceptions of the North American Free Trade Agreement. (more…)
In a meeting in Waco on March 23, 2005, Paul Martin (Prime Minister of Canada), Vicente Fox (President of Mexico), and George W. Bush formed a partnership called The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP). They had to know it would set off all of the tin-foil hats of paranoids who are convinced that we are slouching toward a United States of North America … so why do it in Waco? (more…)
What factors have prevented the U.S. and Latin American countries from forging a strong relationship? What challenges confront U.S. policy in Latin America? Can the U.S. offer an alternative to the influence of left-leaning leaders like Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez? (more…)
Get your networking groove on in a joint program with the World Trade Club of Indiana, the Indiana Economic Development Corporation, and CITCA (Chicago International Trade Commission Association). This will be a significant trade delegation visiting Indianapolis and looking for trade opportunities. (more…)
NUVO gives Provocate 2007 Cultural Vision Award
Provocate featured in Indianapolis Monthly
"Award combines film, activism: Festival to recognize social justice of Sept. 11, Congo in discussions,"
Indiana Lawyer April 16, 2008 ... on Provocate's Eric Parker Social Justice Award at the Indianapolis International Film Festival
