_ From: "Action Center" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 10:34:01 -0500 To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [IAC] Attend anti-FTAA conference in Cuba THE INTERNATIONAL ACTION CENTER IS ORGANIZING A SMALL DELEGATION TO ATTEND AN IMPORTANT CONFERENCE AGAINST THE FTAA THAT WILL TAKE PLACE IN CUBA ON NOV. 13-16. BELOW FOLLOWS COMPLETE INFORMATION ABOUT THE CONFERENCE. U.S. PARTICIPATION IS BEING ORGANIZED BY U.S. CUBA LABOR EXCHANGE. THE IAC WILL BE JOINING THE LABOR EXCHANGE. PLEASE REPLY TO THIS EMAIL ASAP IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN ATTENDING. Hemispheric conference to fight against the FTAA Palacio de las Covenciones de la Habana, Cuba November 13-16, 2001 Invitation Against Annexation! For the defense of the sovereignty of Latin America and the Caribbean! For the fight against social exclusion and poverty! For a grassroots debate and referendum! For a new integrated Americas, for economic development and social justice. Cuban organizations, represented by workers, students, peasants, women, economists, journalists, lawyers,researchers, clergy, artists, and intellectuals are calling for a hemispheric meeting to fight against theFTAA in Havana from November 13-16, 2001. This missive is an urgent invitation we are sending to all countries of the Americas, from theIndustrialized North to the Patagonia and from the Continent to the Caribbean. With this meeting in Cuba, we hope to contribute to this growing and converging movement that is organizing against the project to create a giant free trade area throughout the Americas. We are calling on everyone who shares our concern about the future of our people: Unionists, peasants, students, women, academics, artists, intellectuals, youth, indigenous people, environmentalists, clergy, entrepreneurs and more! The debate we are asking you to get involved in is part of the opposition movement to neoliberalism Globalization that we saw in Seattle, Davos, Prague, Geneva and most recently in Quebec City during the Second Peoples� Summit of the Americas. People from all over the world attended and subscribed to the persuasiveness of the arguments presented. During the Summit, the different integration alternatives that the grassroots and social movements proposed, as opposed to the current free-trade model, were highlighted. The Peoples� Summit, which was convened by the Hemispheric Social Alliance (HSA) brought together various grassroots movements, unions environmentalists, women, youth as well as human rights, international solidarity, indigenous, peasant and religious groups. The Peoples� Summit definite conclusion was that the fight against the FTAA needs to continue on all fronts and that this needs to include new sectors to help enrich the fight. As the final declaration says �Another America is possible. No to the FTAA without the participation of the people�. We hope that the meeting in Cuba will be an important space for support and mobilization for the upcoming World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil (January 2002) and a follow-up to the Peoples� Summit and the initiative for a referendum on the FTAA. Never again should we have to submit to an Accord that is negotiated without us. THEMES * The FTAA and the economic integration of Latin America and the Caribbean. Integration that is subordinate to the United States and based on the principles of neoliberalism. Business, investment, intellectual property, work conditions and the environment. * The FTAA and the independence a nd sovereignty of Latin America and the Caribbean. The political and ideological fight against the FTAA. The work of the media, of social movements, organizations and parliaments in the face of this fight. * The realization of national referendums on participating in the FTAA. * The FTAA as a deepening of neoliberal politics in Latin America and the Caribbean. Poverty and social inequality. Under-employment, the misinformation and the precariousness of work. Urbanism and social problems. Indigenous people. racism and sexism. * The FTAA as a threat to the cultural identity of the people of the Americas and the Caribbean. * The fight against the FTAA: unity and the co-ordination of the different movements and forces who share the same concerns. * Declaration and action plan against the FTAA. La Havana, Cuba, 31 aout 2001. 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