The Official Summit Opens
Friday, December 9, 2006
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.
An amazing lunch companion
Tuesday December 6
This afternoon I shared lunch with a 70 year old Peruvian Indigenous man. He had traveled two days and nights on several different busses to get here. He explained that the reason that he had come was to denounce the contamination of their village by Canadian mining companies.
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Opening of Social Summit for the Integration of the Peoples
Tuesday December 6th, 2006
Today the Social Summit for South American Integration was inaugurated. By early evening, 4500 people had registered, and the information packets given to participants had all been exhausted. The hopes and intentions for the forum are expressed in the program:
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