Declaración de John Edwards sobre el Tratado de Libre Comercio con el Perú
(27 de octubre, 2007)
Hoy quisiera declarar mi oposición al Tratado de Libre Comercio entre EEUU y el Perú, negociado por la administración Bush y que actualmente está bajo consideración en el Congreso norteamericano para ser aprobado. A pesar de los esfuerzos de muchos congresistas demócratas, organizaciones sindicales y defensores del comercio justo por incluir en el acuerdo normas laborales internacionales, lo que resultó sólo incluía referencias a principios generales y no a normas específicas.
Cochabamba
CUMBRE SOCIAL POR LA INTEGRACIÓN DE LOS PUEBLOS
CUMBRE SOCIAL POR LA INTEGRACIÓN DE LOS PUEBLOS
Cochabamba, Bolivia - 6 al 9 de diciembre de 2006
Invitación a sumarse al debate sobre las alternativas por las que luchamos desde los movimientos y organizaciones sociales, en torno al Financiamiento para los Derechos y la Integración de los Pueblos
Presentación de la Cumbre Social
La Alianza Social Continental, junto con el Movimiento Boliviano por la Soberanía y la Integración Solidaria de los Pueblos-Contra el ALCA y los TLCs, está organizando la CUMBRE SOCIAL POR LA INTEGRACIÓN DE LOS PUEBLOS, a realizarse de modo paralelo a la Cumbre de presidentes de la Comunidad Sudamericana de Naciones. Será un momento importante en la continuidad del trabajo de nuestros movimientos y organizaciones sociales que venimos articulando acciones y otros que se sumen en la lucha de resistencia y construcción de alternativas al libre comercio, el neoliberalismo, la deuda, la militarizacíon y el empobrecimiento y la exclusión.
Hemispheric Social Alliance Bulletin July 30, 2008
The people's permanent tribunal is an international non-governmental organization which is attempting to make permanent something which began in 1966 as the Russel Tribunals about Vietnam and in 1974 challenging the dictators in Latin America. This is a Tribunal which has the opinion that it is important to continually shed light on the impunity which some governments exercise and the resistance of the people against multiple and systematic violations of human rights which they are subject to, and which their countries are internally unable to contain.
Letter from Evo Morales to the WTO
On the WTO's round of negotiations
International trade can play a major role in the promotion of economic development and the alleviation of poverty. We recognize the need for all our peoples to benefit from the increased opportunities and welfare gains that the multilateral trading system generates. The majority of WTO members are developing countries. We seek to place their needs and interests at the heart of the Work Programme adopted in this Declaration. Doha World Trade Organization Ministerial Declaration, November 14, 2001
Colombia United Workers Federation (CUT) Letter in Support of the Strike Against Drummond
CUT supports strike by Drummond's workers
Three thousand workers of the coal mine situated in the municipalities of La Loma and Puerto de Ciénaga, located in the Colombian departments of Cesar and Magdalena respectively, began a work-stoppage at 5:50 PM on Wednesday, July 16, 2008. This is the second largest coal mine in Colombia and is run by the U.S.-based Drummond mining company. Drummond has also been granted a lease to extract natural gas deposits discovered in the same area and to operate the 55,000-acre El Descanso mine, in the municipalities of Becerril and Codazzi, considered the largest coal mine in the world.
HSA BULLETIN July 14, 2008
HEMISPHERIC SOCIAL ALLIANCE www.asc-hsa.org
1. National Strike in Peru
2. Mobilization around the G8 Summit.
3. 4th Caribbean Peoples' Conference .
4. Suspensión of the 4th Round of the Andean Community (CAN) - EU Negotiations.
5. A Call to Action- the Doha Round.
ART-RECALCA Statement on McCain's visit to Colombia
Joint Statement of the Alliance for Responsible Trade (U.S.) and RECALCA (Colombia)
This week, Republican presidential candidate John McCain will visit Cartagena, Colombia to express his continued support for embattled Colombian President, Alvaro Uribe, and to promote the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement, which was put on indefinite hold over the serious human rights concerns of many in the U.S. Congress. Mr. McCain will no doubt use this visit to attempt to convince U.S. voters that, with regard to foreign and economic policy, he has the experience and judgment necessary to govern the United States for the next four years. However, his wholesale embrace of the Bush Administration's policy toward Colombia will win him little support among U.S. voters and will further alienate the citizens of Latin America who want to see real change in Washington.
Relaunching of National Campaign "Sin Maíz no hay País"! (Without Corn there is No Country).
Call to the second phase of the National Campaign Sin Maíz no hay País campaign. (Without Corn there is No Country).
HSA Bulletin June 23, 2008
1. Europe Raises Its Wall: Parliament Approved Anti-Immigrant Law
2. CAOI (Coordinadora Andina de Organizaciones Indígenas - Coordination of Andean Indigenous Organizations): No to the "Flexibilization" of Decision 486 of the CAN (Andean Community)
3. The FTA with Canada: another betrayal of the Nation
4. Chile: 10,000 demonstrators and nearly 300 arrests in protest against the Education Law
5. The plundering of minerals in Argentina: The Best Business in the World
6. The oil "bubble" and global social protests
7. Via Campesina calls for a mobilization against the G8 meeting in Hokkaido Japan