Acknowledgements
This paper draws upon the contributions of many individuals too numerous to name. Over the course of many years, hundreds of people have participated in discussions, helped draft documents or conducted educational organizing activities around an alternative vision for our hemisphere. To a large extent, this paper is a culmination of all of these efforts. In preparing this fourth version of Alternatives for the Americas, international teams were set up to coordinate input around each chapter. The participants in those teams circulated drafts by email and met in various countries to discuss their respective proposals. The following individuals were the coordinators of their respective teams:
Human Rights:
Javier Mujica, Plataforma Interamericana de Derechos Humanos y Democracia
Environment and Natural Resources:
Hilda Salazar and Alejandro Villamar, RMALC, Gabrielle
Pelletier, RQIC, Sergio Schlesinger, REBRIP
Sustainability
Sergio Schlesinger, REBRIP
Gender
Marceline White, Women's Edge/ART, Rosa Guillen, Mujeres Transformando la Economía
Labor:
Alberto Arroyo, UAM/RMALC, Peter Bakvis, International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
Immigration:
Juan Manuel Sandoval, RMALC, Claire Picard, RQIC
Role of the State:
Alberto Arroyo, UAM/RMALC
Education:
Jocelyn Berthelot, Centrale des syndicats du Québec/RQIC
Communications:
Elvira Truglia, AMARC/RQIC
Investment:
John Dillon, KAIROS: Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives/Common Frontiers (Canada)
Finance:
John Dillon, KAIROS /Common Frontiers (Canada)
Intellectual Property:
Alejandra Rotania, Ser Mulher/Rede Brasileira pela Integracão dos Povos (REBRIP), Kristin Dawkins, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy/ART
Agriculture:
Stephen Bartlett, Agricultural Missions/ART
Market Access/Rules of Origin:
Miosotis Rivas Peña, Centro de Investigación Económica para el Caribe (CIECA) and Andrés Peñaloza, RMALC
Services:
Claudio Lara, Consumers International/Alianza Chilena por un Comercio Justo y Responsable
Dispute Resolution:
Terry Collingsworth, International Labor Rights Fund/ART
The individuals responsible for the overall coordination and editing of this document include:
- Sarah Anderson (Institute for Policy Studies/ART)
- Alberto Arroyo (RMALC)
- Patty Barrera (Common Frontiers)
- John Dillon (KAIROS /Common Frontiers)
- Karen Hansen-Kuhn (The Development GAP/ART)
- Sergio Schlesinger (REBRIP)
Other people who made important contributions include: Victor Baez, ORIT; Gonzalo Berrón (REBRIP); Diana Bronson (Rights and Democracy); Raúl Moreno (Red Sinti Techan); Kathy Ozer (National Family Farm Coalition); David Ranney (ART) and Marcela Escribano (RQIC), and the translators: Maria Eugenia Gutierrez; Natalie Mariona; Jacobo Menajovsky; Keyllen Nieto; Dan Thomas; and Marco Velazquez.
We would also like to express our appreciation to the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Solidago Foundation, whose generous support made the translation and publication of this document possible.