Alliance for Responsible Trade

ART is a national network of labor, family-farm, religious, women’s, environmental, development and research organizations that promotes equitable and sustainable trade and development. ART is the representative coalition to the Hemispheric Social Alliance (HSA), a hemispheric wide organization of coalitions which are challenging the dominant models of power.

Historic Citizen-Government Interchanges

Wednesday December 7, 2006
Today was a monumental moment in the history of government-citizen interchanges. Normally these alternative summits are held on the other side of high fences, and often there are ‘altercations’ which accompany the marches protesting the deafness of the government officials gathered inside the barricades. Today, thanks to the initiative of Evo Morales, President of Bolivia and Host of the Official Summit the first open citizen/government interchanges are happening inside the gates of the Alternative Forum.