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How should Wellingtonians respond to the "Economic Crisis"?

"We'll be back where we were when the Workers Educational Association
was set up - begging for casual jobs when, and wherever we can, if we
don't understand what's happening. Only then can we put a stop to the
current economic idiocy, and effectively organise for the better world,
we know must be possible. That's why the W E A is organising a series
of lunchtime lectures and discussions on "The Economic Crisis &
Community response", Pat Bolster, Wellington WEA President told this
paper.

The WEA's free lunchtime Forums start next Monday, March 16th, at their
Rooms in Anvil House, opposite the Michael Fowler Centre, with Victoria
University Economist Dr. Geoff Bertram

Geoff's particular interests are: Energy and environmental economics,
deregulation of natural monopoly, employment, economic growth and
development. Geoff's current research is on "light handed regulation" in
New Zealand will particular reference to the electricity and gas network
industries; economics of small island development; and current account
sustainability

Speakers on the following Mondays will include: Economist Dr. Brian
Easton; Raewyn Fox from the N.Z. Federation of Family Budgeting
Services; Peter Conway, Secretary of the Council of Trade Unions;
Community Activist, Robert Reid; Wellington Central M. P. Grant
Robertson; Ramsay Margolis from the New Zealand Co-operatives
Association; Kay Brereton of the Wellington Peoples Centre , and
Stella Teariki, a New Zealand representative to the Youth Section of
the International Labour Organisation.

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