The HSA is a network of labor organizations and citizens' coalitions representing more than 45 million people from throughout the Americas. It was created to facilitate information exchange and joint strategies and actions towards building an alternative, democratic model of development that benefits our peoples. The HSA is an open space for organizations and movements interested in changing the policies of hemispheric integration and promoting social justice in the Americas. The initiative to create the HSA came out of a May 1997 meeting held parallel to the FTAA Trade Ministerial in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. In April 1999, the Alliance was formally constituted, and a Secretariat was established at the Mexican Action Network on Free Trade (RMALC) in Mexico City. In March 2002, the Secretariat was transferred to the Brazil Network for a Peoples Integration (REBRIP). In addition to RMALC and REBRIP, members of the HSA Coordinating Committee include:
For more information on HSA member organizations,
objectives, and activities, contact:
web site: www.asc-hsa.org
email: