TIMISOARA: REVOLUTION CITY AND TREND LEADER OF ROMANIA

Gheorghe Ciuhandu Mayor of Timisoara, Romania

Tuesday, October 16, 2007, 11 am

MC 200(McDowell). Schoolcraft College. info 734.462.4400 x 5271

sponsored by Schoolcraft College and The Santeiu Family

The Romanian Revolution of 1989 first began in the city of Timisoara. In December of that year, a protest became a week-long series of riots and fighting that quickly resulted in the overthrow of the Communist regime of Nicolae Ceauşescu. Ceauşescu’s economic and development policies were blamed by many Romanians for the country's painful shortages and widespread, intensifying poverty. Ghorghe Ciuhandu is uniquely qualified to give a personal account of this anti-communist revolution having served as Mayor of this revolutionary city since 1996.