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04
Jul

The Cancun Summit Mandated North American Union by 2007

by Jan Allen

I. Summary The Cancun Summit produced the Leaders Joint Statement of March 31, 2006 http://tinyurl.com/pdzlk

It mandated six action points to insure that the North American Union be in place before the end of the year.

The North American Union is the creation of the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) which established totally new state corporate rule over the entire North American Continent http://tinyurl.com/eey4x

II. The Leaders Joint Statement of March 31, 2006 http://tinyurl.com/pdzlk presented six action points to insure that the North American Union be in place before the end of the year:
1) Establishment of a Trilateral Regulatory Cooperative Framework
The leaders said: We affirm our commitment to strengthen regulatory cooperation in this and other key sectors and to have our central regulatory agencies complete a “trilateral regulatory cooperation framework” by 2007.

2) Establishment of the North American Competitiveness Council (NACC)
The NACC is to be the council, junta of business …

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July 4, 2006
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24
Mar

Indigenous movement proposes to assume its own power

QUITO, March 24 (PL).—Given the rejection by Ecuadorian president Alfredo Palacio of the demands made by the popular sector, the indigenous movement is today to assume power itself and convene a popular consultation on the Free Trade Agreement.

Santiago de la Cruz, vice president of the Federation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE), emphasized last night that “the people need to be consulted,” to which end his organization will carry out its own consultation process.

He stated that that decision had been taken on account of the dictatorial attitude of the president, who has not allowed the channels for dialogue that would facilitate a referendum on the FTA being negotiated with the United States.

For that reason, Luis Macas, CONAIE’s maximum leader, is not recognizing the leader of the present governor and is calling on Ecuadorians to decide their own future.

De la Cruz emphasized that from now they are going to exercise power …

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March 24, 2006
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07
Jan

Free trade agreements - Hypocrisy and Illusion

By Siv O’Neall

Manipulated again!

The emptiness behind the slogan free trade has been pointed out again and again by numerous NGOs, by Progressive Internet sites and by individual objectors to the obscene power of the transnational corporations. It needs however to be stressed constantly until the corporate empire falls and IN BOLDFACE CAPITALS, that the free trade concept which the rich countries are holding forth as the savior of the world from poverty, increasing unemployment and horrendous inequality is just a legerdemain, an empty illusion. It is a way of duping all of us into believing that something positive is coming out of this huge scam.

In particular, the part of the world that is the target of the greed of the big corporations (represented by the World Trade Organization) is of course the poor countries in the South, especially Africa, which is being mercilessly screwed into becoming helpless buyers of …

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January 7, 2006
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05
Nov

Food sovereignty

Food sovereignty is the peoples, Countries or State Unions RIGHT to define their agricultural and food policy, without any dumping vis-a-vis third countries. Food sovereignty includes :

prioritizing local agricultural production in order to feed the people, access of peasants and landless people to land, water, seeds, and credit. Hence the need for land reforms, for fighting against GMOs ((Genetically Modified Organisms), for free access to seeds, and for safeguarding water as a public good to be sustainably distributed.

the right of farmers, peasants to produce food and the right of consumers to be able to decide what they consume, and how and by whom it is produced.

the right of Countries to protect themselves from too low priced agricultural and food imports.

agricultural prices linked to production costs : they can be achieved if the Countries or Unions of States are entitled to impose taxes on excessively cheap imports, if …

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November 5, 2005
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02
Nov

FTAA and the Hemispheric Campaign Against the FTAA

What is the FTAA?

The FTAA is the acronym for the “Free Trade Area of the Americas”, an agreement being promoted by business and government sectors in the United States to increase and consolidate their domination over the populations and countries of the hemisphere while at the same time securing their hegemony at a worldwide level. The FTAA was formally launched at the First Summit of the Americas, held in Miami in December 1994. At the beginning of that year, the North American Free Trade Agreement, NAFTA (Canada, Mexico and the United States) officially came into effect. The expansion of that accord to the rest of the hemisphere (excluding Cuba) is the goal of the FTAA.

In preparation for the FTAA negotiations, nine permanent negotiating groups have been formed covering the following areas:

Agriculture
Government Procurement (at national and local level)
Investment
Market Access
Subsidies
Services
Intellectual Property Rights
Competition Policy
Dispute Resolution

In general, each country designates an official representative to …

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November 2, 2005
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Video activism and the Chiapas Media Project

In the following presentation, Claudia Magallanes-Blanco from the University of Western Sydney talks about the role of video activism as a world-wide tool for empowerment and the Chiapas Media Project, a collaborative effort based in Mexico that provides indigenous Zapatistas in Chiapas and peasants in Guerrero with training and equipment to produce their own videos.

Since forming in 1998, CMP has distributed over 6000 videos, including: Zapata’s Garden, a film that looks at the society the Zapatista’s are building; …


I Am A Defender of the Rainforest

Known as ‘Soy defensor de la selva’ in Spanish, I am a Defender of the Rainforest is an award-winning documentary that was filmed, edited, and directed by members of the Sarayaku community in southern Ecuador.

The film shows how the …


Underreported Struggles #19, October 2008

In this month’s Underreported Struggles: 400,000 Guatemalans Reject Development Model, Philippines Indigenous People Unite for the Land, Riot Police Target Algonquin Blockade, Chagos Islanders Denied the Right of Return, and 17 other stories …


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