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ART goes to the U.S. Social Forum

June 27-July 1, 2007   ART is offering a full slate of dynamic workshops together with our partner networks from Mexico, Central and South America and Canada.

  • Resistance to Free Trade Continues: Lessons from the Struggle against DR-CAFTA (co-sponsored with the STOP-CAFTA Coalition)
  • The Security and Prosperity Partnership- NAFTA on Steroids.
  • The North and the South united against the FTAA and ‘Free Trade': the experience of the Hemispheric Social Alliance (HSA).
  • Bolivia: "Free Trade" vrs. Sovereignty

  Please visit the ART website at: http://art-us.org/node/242 for a full description of workshops, times and locations.

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Erminia Osorio-Perez of Achuapa, Nicaragua grows corn to feed her family, selecting and saving her own seeds. But with Nicaragua and Central America adopting the CAFTA "free" trade pact, her way of life may vanish. In Mexico, the entrance of cheap, subsidized U.S. corn under NAFTA resulted in more than 2 million small corn producers losing their livelihoods in the last 12 years.

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Individual Presigners

  • Howard Zinn
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Co-sponsoring Organizations

  • Agricultural Missions
  • Association for the Sovereignty of Colombia
  • Border Agricultural Workers Project
  • Campaign for Labor Rights
  • Chicago Religious Leadership Network on LA
  • CISPES
  • CITCA
  • Development GAP
  • Equal Exchange
  • Howard County Friends of Latin America
  • Human Rights for Workers
  • IATP Institute for Ag and Trade Policy
  • International Labor Rights Fund (ILRF)
  • Just Foreign Policy
  • Korean Americans for Fair Trade
  • Labor Council for Latin American Advancement
  • Latin American Solidarity Comm.
  • LCLAA
  • Marianist Province Office of Peace
  • Marin Interfaith Task Force on the Americas
  • New Ways Ministry
  • Nicaragua Network
  • Nicaragua U.S. Friendship Office
  • Nicaraguan Cultural Alliance
  • Pax Christi
  • Peaceworks
  • SHARE Foundation
  • Sisters of Mercy Institute Justice
  • Sisters of the Holy Names U.S./Ontario Province Justice Network
  • Srs of Charity of Cincinnati
  • Student Trade Justice Campaign
  • United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE)
  • US LEAP
  • US-El Salvador Sister Cities
  • Voices on the Border
  • Washington Office on Latin America
  • WILPF