Letter in Support of Roy Bourgeois Published
Dear Friends,
Because of your support, the open letter in support of courageous priest Father Roy Bourgeois was published in the National Catholic Reporter Christmas issue. We especially wish to recognize Frank Meuers, Marilyn Lieber, Raymond McGrath, Barbara O’Connor, whose names were left off of the published copy of the ad by mistake. Thank you for helping make this community effort possible!
Civil Society Organizations Ask President-Elect Obama to Re-negotiate NAFTA
Dear President Elect Barack Obama, January 5, 2008We wish to congratulate you on your recent electoral victory.Throughout the electoral campaign we, the undersigned, followed with great interest your repeated commitments to fair trade and the renegotiation of poorly designed trade agreements like the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). read more
HSA Bulletin December 16th, 2008
1. Declaration of Bahia, Brazil proposes solutions to world crises2. Letter to Ortega requests clarification of position on trade agreements with the European Union3. Army assassinates the husband of Aida Quilcue, Consejera Mayor of the Indigenous Resguardo of Cauca4. IIRSA meeting concludes in Cartagena with a lack of transparency5. Social Organizations in Argentina march under the banner, "Hunger is a Crime"6. Bank of America announces massive layoffs
HSA Bulletin December 10, 2008
1. Financial and environmental crises: Principal goals of the World Social Forum in Belem, Brazil2. ECUARUNARI calls for December 10th mobilizations against the Ecuadoran Debt3. President Lugo wants to review the external debt which Paraguay has with Brazil4. Colombia will be examined by the UN on International Human Rights Day5. Workers occupy factory in Chicago6. National meeting in Brazil to debate prostitution and violence against women7. Final report regarding the massacre in Pando, Bolivia given to Evo Morales
Ecuador Defaults on Foreign Debt
Written by Daniel Denvir Friday, 12 December 2008 President Rafael Correa declared on Friday that Ecuador would not make a $30.6 million interest payment on $510 million in bonds due in 2012, calling the debt illegal.
Stop CAFTA Coalition Releases Report on Three Years of Failed Trade Deal
Groups Who Opposed Central America Agreement Plan to Call for Suspension Under Obama Administration
HSA Bulletin December 3, 2008
1. Summit of the Peoples in Bahia called for Latin America and the Caribbean. 2. Countries of the ALBA propose the Sucre (as a new currency) to confront the financial crisis.3. The opposition in Canada accuses Harper of complicity with Uribe for signing the FTA4. Women speak about the impacts of the financial crisis5. President
CLIMATE CHANGE: Save the Planet from Capitalism
Message from Evo Morales to the countries taking part in the UN Climate Change Conference in Poznan, Poland Sisters and brothers: Today, our Mother Earth is ill. From the beginning of the 21st century we have lived the hottest years of the last thousand years. Global warming is generating abrupt changes in the weather: the
QUITO DECLARATION NOVEMBER 25, 2008
IN THE FACE OF THE FINANCIAL CRISIS, WE DEMANDED A CHANGE IN MODEL Social leaders of Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Argentina, Bolivia and Chile, belonging to the Hemispheric Social Alliance, meeting in Quito on 15 November 2008 — at the same time as the leaders of the G20 in Washington– discussed the implications of the