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STOP CORPORATE GLOBALIZATION: ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE!

Posted by admin | May 15, 2006 | Statement, Trade and Investment

[Espanõl ] A Statement of Unity from the OUR WORLD IS NOT FOR SALE Network:(www.ourworldisnotforsale.org) INTRODUCTION: OUR CHALLENGE “Our World Is Not for Sale” is a worldwide network of organizations;...

FRENEMOS LA GLOBALIZACIÓN DE LAS TRANSNACIONALES: OTRO MUNDO ES POSIBLE

Posted by admin | May 15, 2006 | Español, Opinion/Analysis

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Declaración de unidad política de la Red
‘NUESTRO MUNDO NO ESTÁ EN VENTA’(www.ourworldisnotforsale.org)

Introducción: nuestro desafío

‘Nuestro Mundo No Está en Venta’ es una red mundial de organizaciones, activistas y movimientos sociales abocados a combatir los acuerdos de comercio e inversiones que promueven la globalización orientada por las transnacionales y benefician a las empresas más poderosas del mundo a costa de los pueblos y el medio ambiente.
Contra ese proceso de globalización orientada por las transnacionales, sostenemos la visión de una economía mundial fundada en principios de justicia económica, sustentabilidad ecológica y responsabilidad democrática –una economía que privilegie los intereses de los pueblos y las personas antes que los de las empresas. Una economía erigida en torno a los intereses de los verdaderos productores y consumidores –trabajadores, campesinos, agricultores familiares, pescadores artesanales, pequeños y medianos productores—y las necesidades de quienes se encuentran marginados por el sistema imperante, como es el caso de las mujeres y los pueblos indígenas.

“AQUI ESTAMOS Y NO NOS VAMOS!”: THE STRUGGLE FOR IMMIGRANT RIGHTS

Posted by admin | May 5, 2006 | Opinion/Analysis

[Espanõl] "AQUI ESTAMOS Y NO NOS VAMOS!": THE STRUGGLE FOR IMMIGRANT RIGHTS IN THE US William I. Robinson* Latino immigrants have launched an all-out fight-back against the repression, exploitation, and...

BOLIVIA’S RADICAL REALIGNMENT UNDER BOLIVIA’S RADICAL REALIGNMENT UNDER EVO MORALES

Posted by admin | May 5, 2006 | Opinion/Analysis

[Espanõl] Roger Burbach* With the nationalization of Bolivia's natural gas and petroleum resources President Evo Morales, the country's first Indian president, is dramatically reshaping his country's destiny....

THAILAND: DEMOCRACY, ELECTIONS AND LEGITIMACY

Posted by admin | May 5, 2006 | Mekong Region, Opinion/Analysis, Thailand

[Espanol] Alec Bamford & Chanida Chanyapate* Here we go again A month ago 1 we had to explain why progressive Thai civil society was sitting on the same side of the barricades as the forces of darkness. (See Focus on Trade...

THE WISDOM OF WALL STREET

Posted by admin | May 5, 2006 | Opinion/Analysis

Nicola Bullard* There is something disturbing about Kofi Anan “ringing the bell” at the New York Stock Exchange. The Secretary General was there to launch the UN’s latest capitulation to the market: the...

President Chavez’s Speech to the 6th World Social Forum – Americas

Posted by admin | May 5, 2006 | 1Post Types

venezuelanalysis.comPresident Chavez's Speech to the 6th World Social Forum – AmericasFriday, May 05, 2006 " I want to specifically greet many friends, comrades, and companeros who are here. Abel Prieto,...

Schirmer, 91: Marcos critic, Filipinos’ friend

Posted by admin | May 4, 2006 | 1Post Types

Philippine Daily Inquirer May 04, 2006 Editor's Note: Published on Page A1 of the May 4, 2006 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer WHEN DANIEL BOONE SCHIRMER passed away in Cambridge, Massachusetts, last month, it felt...

Call for May 5 2006 as Global Day of Protest against ADB!

Posted by admin | May 2, 2006 | 1Post Types

We are the Peoples’ Forum against ADB (PFAADB), an alliance of 97 social movements, struggle groups and NGOs from across Asia. We write to you from the city of Hyderabad in India where thousands are beginning to...

Critics Plan Offensive as IMF-World Bank Crisis Deepens

Posted by admin | Apr 26, 2006 | The Commons

[Espanol | Français] By Walden Bello Washington, DC, April 24. The spring meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund took place this weekend with police barricades ringing the two institutions at the heart...

CONVOCATORIA A LA ACCIÓN: ¡A FRENAR LA RONDA DE DOHA “PARAEL DESARROLLO” Y DEMÁS NEGOCIACIONES DE LI

Posted by admin | Apr 24, 2006 | 1Post Types

[English | Arabic]Convocamos a las organizaciones de la sociedad civil y los movimientos sociales del mundo entero a expresar nuestra oposición enérgica, unitaria e inequívoca a las pretensiones de concluir la...

CALL TO ACTION! STOP THE WTO’s DOHA “DEVELOPMENT” ROUND AND OTHER “FREE TRADE” NEGOTIATIONS

Posted by admin | Apr 24, 2006 | Trade and Investment

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We call upon civil society organizations and social movements from around the world to join with us in showing their strong, united and unequivocal opposition to the completion of the World Trade Organization’s trade ‘round’, and other bilateral and regional Free Trade Agreements being forced on people by governments. We are committed to campaigning together to stop these negotiations, which ignore the needs of developing countries, the peoples of the world and the environment, and promote corporate globalization. We agree to mobilize, nationally and internationally, in late April, mid May and late July, to ensure our voices are heard as governments meet for the WTO’s scheduled General Council meetings.

Groups from across Asia to unite in Hyderabad to mobilise against upcoming ADB AGM in May 2006

Posted by admin | Apr 21, 2006 | Announcement, The Commons

PEOPLES FORUM AGAINST THE ADBThe Asian Development Bank will hold its 39th Annual Governors’ Meeting (AGM) from 3-6 May 2006 in Hyderabad, India. Chaired by Indian Finance Minister P Chidambaram, Ministers of 64 ADB member...

Solidarity for Asian People’s Advocacy (SAPA) Submission to the Eminent

Posted by admin | Apr 19, 2006 | Opinion/Analysis, The Commons

Solidarity for Asian People’s Advocacy (SAPA) Submission to the Eminent Persons Group on the ASEAN Charter17 April 2006Ubud, BaliI. IntroductionWe are representatives of the Solidarity for Asian People’s Advocacy...