Friendship Office of the Americas

The Friendship Office of the Americas is a social justice organization that fosters solidarity between the peoples of Nicaragua, Honduras and the United States and pursues polices of peace and friendship.

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Haitians Who Landed in Florida Last Month Still Detained, Awaiting Word on Immigration

[from Black America web: http://www.blackamericaweb.com/site.aspx/bawnews/haitians419]Also see Fanm Ayesyen Nan Miyami web site for updates: http://www.fanm.org/Date: Wednesday, April 18, 2007By: Jackie Jones, BlackAmericaWeb.comMore than 100 Haitians who landed in a Florida community continue to be detained as they await a decision on whether they will be sent back home or allowed to immigrate to the U.S read more

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Challenging the Empire and its SPP

OUTLINE OF PRESENTATION for the: "Challenging the Empire and its SPP" WorkshopManuel Pérez Rocha For the Alliance for Responsible Trade (ART) Teach In "Integrate This", Ottawa. March, 2007 The Security for Trade and Prosperity for Elites Partnership (STPEP):"How governments close their eyes on the roots of migration and instead build walls" read more

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Analysis, Solidarity, Action—a Workers’ Perspective on the Increasing Use of Migrant Labour in Canada

Canada’s Part in the Global Integration of Labour MarketsAt the September 2006, United Nations High-Level Dialogue onInternational Migration and Development, the International Organizationfor Migration (IOM) made a proposal for a set of measures to integratelabour markets around the world, and ultimately make them yet moreflexible.The ‘International Migration and Development Initiative’ emerged fromdiscussions between the IOM- an inter-governmental organizationestablished in 1951- the private sector, the World Bank, and some

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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.

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