Due to its importance, we are textually reproducing two important documents that are apt for the IV Hemispheric Encounter of the Struggle against the FTAA.  Among others is the Declaration of the event, its Action Plan and the continental social agenda; and the Declaration of the Convergence of Movements of the Peoples of the Americas.  In these is conducted the analysis of the advances of the FTAA and the social struggles on the continent.

FINAL DECLARATION OF THE IV HEMISPHERIC ENCOUNTER OF THE
STRUGGLE AGAINST THE FTAA

TO ALL PEOPLES OF OUR AMERICA

The first of January of this year dawned without the World Trade Organization (WTO) having acquired our powers over the destiny of the planet, and our continent woke up without the calamity of a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), as had been planned and the great transnational corporations intended to impose upon us, as well as the government of the United States and subordinate governments of the region.  Perhaps we have not fully appreciated the setback of the imperial plans and that we have halted, at least for now, these true threats to our communities.  This has been possible due to the emergence in the region of governments that distance themselves from the North American hegemony and, most of all, because these same owe to the rising resistance and the impulse of the social movement that extends uncontained throughout the continent, principally in the South, frustrating the projects of the powerful and putting in their place those who, benefiting first from it, turn their backs on them.  After years of struggle against the FTAA we are celebrating here, from Cuba, Free Territory of America, this first victory.

But the empire does not sleep.  The plague of the poorly named “free trade” – this motto of the neoliberal globalization that seeks to open our countries to indiscriminate sacking and that denies them their right to development – expands on all sides and in all ways that are possible.  If it is true that in Cancun the negotiations to give new orders to the WTO were derailed, the great powers continue working to subject to their rules and interests vital aspects for humanity like agriculture, biodiversity and basic services such as education, health and social security.  The next month of December, the WTO will have a new summit in Hong Kong and there exists a danger that there they will succeed in spreading the neoliberal agenda.  We will not allow it!  We should go out to fight again on a global scale to frustrate these negotiations, to stop the WTO from acquiring more powers, to impede the corporate agenda.  We are calling for participation on September 10^th, the anniversary of the sacrifice of our friend Lee in Cancun, in the global expedition against the WTO that Vía Campesina is organizing.  In addition to accompanying from the continent those who mobilize throughout the world against the WTO, in December we will be struggling in Hong Kong as we did before in Cancun.

Nor can we say still that victory over the FTAA is definitive.  The FTAA negotiations can be trapped, frozen, but the FTAA is not dead.  The United States can attempt to revive this “cadaver” at any moment, especially if it does not succeed in advancing its interests all that it wants in global or bilateral scenarios.  But even if it were to succeed, the United States will not give up so easily its objective to place the pieces of the puzzle of its domination in the framework of a single hemispheric area under its hegemony.  We should maintain our vigilance and continental mobilization against the FTAA, and demand of our governments that they be dignified and independent, not ceding to North American pressures and not putting at risk, through mediations, the future and right to sustainable development of our nations.

But the gravest scenario that we are currently facing can be found in Central America, the Caribbean and the Andean region.  Upon seeing that the original project of the FTAA was frustrated, the United States immediately switched strategies to advance on the path of bilateral or subregional free trade agreements.  The thesis is that if the majority of the continent is under free trade agreements with the United States, the accession of the FTAA will only be the next step, or those countries that resist will become isolated.  In this way, the United States has dedicated itself to pressuring Central American countries and the Dominican Republic in the Caribbean, as well as the Andean countries, to subject them to leonine, unjust, exploitative free trade agreements that definitively subordinate them to the interests of large North American corporations and cancels forever the possibilities of independent development.  Exemplarily, the countries of CARICOM continue to resist U.S. pressures.  But Central America and the Dominican Republic represent the next step to consolidating the empire.  It lacks the ratification of Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Dominica and the Congress of the United States.  In the Andean region, fragile governments bend to U.S. pressures, divided amongst themselves and with a growing opposition of the popular movement, they negotiate their adhesion to the agreement, but are shaken by events such as the fall of Colonel Lucio Gutierrez in Ecuador, and this makes the “procedure” even more difficult for them.

There, in Central America and the Andean region, is today the principal battlefield against the plans of domination of empire.  If they succeed in passing these free trade agreements, the FTAA will be that much closer to becoming a reality.  We cannot allow it!  The peoples of Central America and the Andean region are resisting, mobilizing, joining hard battles and making new sacrifices to stop this threat.  So it is in Guatemala, where the repression has reappeared, taking its first mortal victim in our struggle against the free plundering on the part of the empire.  From here we pay homage to our Mayan comrade Juan López, Guatemalan brother executed for the terrible crime of fighting for his country’s sovereignty (we ask for a moment of silence in his memory) (we ask now for a moment of applause for the fight).  All communities of America should unite to support the resistance of our brothers and sisters of Central America and the Andean region against the agreements for free plundering!  This is today our priority in this struggle!

As if that weren’t enough, and if it does not match up with the disastrous results of more than ten years of the FTAA, in North America the rightist governments now intend to advance a free trade “plus” agreement.  Moreover, the United States and its allies continue pushing regional projects like the Puebla Panama Plan, Plan Colombia and the militarization of the Triple Border.  All of them are pieces of the puzzle of imperial domination.  It is also vital that the popular resistance halt its advance.

And the free trade agreements are not the only threats we are facing.  Every day, without waiting for the agreements, transnationals and their “local partners” are working to privatize that which they do not already own.  Now they are headed towards energy, education, health and social security, biodiversity, water, and the privatization of life.  And together with these privatization attempts, the weight and blackmail of the debt hangs over our countries, when we have already paid it many times over, such that now we are the rightful creditors and our nations should be compensated.  The most ominous, nonetheless, is that to push this agenda, to impose its plans, the United States is increasingly interventionist, more colonial, more militant and, below the command –ratified unfortunately for the world – of George Bush, who seeks to impose now the vision of imperial security as if it were the security of the whole world, attempting to subordinate the countries of the hemisphere below its command, in addition to promoting and abetting the militarization of entire regions.

We are not setting out, nonetheless, from zero in the resistance of all these threats and calamities.  In the different regions of the continent they are embarking upon more battles, often with success, against the privatization and delivery of energy, of water, of education, of health; opposition is growing to the payment of debt and resistance to militarization; they are fighting against the perverse model of “free trade,” for the land and food sovereignty; the rebellion is growing of youth, women, blacks, indigenous groups; it is an increasing occurrence that our people, by their will, are placing and taking down governments.  Below this impulse, for the first time in many years, the surge of Latin American governments that are not servile to Washington are contradicting and complicating its colonialist projects.  It is increasingly profiling the idea of a distinct integration, of blocks of southern countries in development to confront those in power and the northern ambitions.  From Venezuela has arisen the Bolivarian Alternative initiative that is not only a proposal, but something that is beginning to solidify in agreements of solidarity and cooperation amongst southern countries, even in such important areas as communication and energy.  Because integration is not enough, of south with south, but is truly indispensable that this be based on a radically different model of development and trade, so that it truly redounds in benefits for our peoples and nations.

And precisely the level and unity that the struggles of our peoples have reached permits and demands of us, without abandoning the struggles of resistance, to pass again to propose and construct from below our own vision of integration and development alternative to neoliberalism and “free trade,” that places in front the complementariness of nations before competition; that places in front human, economic, social, cultural, gender equality, and environmental rights; that begins by recognizing the inequalities and asymmetries; that it recognize the right of nations to protect and develop their natural and strategic resources, the vital areas for its survival; that makes possible, finally, another more just, free and truly democratic America.

The level and unity that our struggles have reached on a hemispheric scale demands that we take another step in the processes of articulation and in our agenda.  For all this is from here, from the city of Havana, we call for the Third Summit of the Peoples of America, to take place in November in Mar del Plata, Argentina.  There, on the 4^th and 5^th, will meet the IV Summit of the Americas, which 34 presidents of the OAS will attend – which Cuba is honorably excluded from – including known terrorist George W. Bush.  Beyond the simulation of good intentions and the official rhetoric of the Summit of the Americas, we summon our peoples to find their own summit, to bury once and for all the FTAA, to say enough already to the free trade and privatization agreements, to make their voices and their reclamations heard, to pass on to a higher level of unity in the struggle.  We also call on a meeting at the World Social Forum that will take place in Caracas, Venezuela, currently the first line of resistance against imperial plans, on January 1^st of next year, to advance in the construction of our agenda and alternatives to the neoliberal model.

Brothers and sisters of all America,

With great efforts and enormous sacrifices, we are moving forward.  Now is not the hour to lose heart, but to redouble our organization and our struggles: against free trade agreements with Central America and the Andes; against the WTO and to definitively bury the FTAA; against privatizations, debt and militarization; for an alternative from our communities to neoliberal globalization, for a distinct integration with free trade and rights to development.  We call on all organizations and social and civil movements to meet at the III Summit of the Peoples of America in Mar de Plata in November of this year; in the World Social Forum of Caracas in January of next year; and again here, in the land of Martí, in the V Hemispheric Encounter of the Struggle Against the FTAA, “Free Trade” and for Integration of Peoples, to drive the struggles of our peoples for liberty, justice and equality.

Sure, as we are, that we are headed down this road,

Always to victory!  Hasta la Victoria siempre!

Another America is possible
Havana, April 30, 2005

ACTION PLAN OF THE CONTINENTAL CAMPAIGN OF STRUGGLE
AGAINST THE FTAA
PREAMBLE

The hemispheric conjuncture places the need to combine, once again, the continuity of resistance against imperialist “free trade” initiatives with the presentation and implementation of concrete alternatives to the today’s extant agendas in the FTAA, free trade agreements and the WTO.  In this framework, there are two tasks that have transcendental importance:

a) the updating and divulgation of the social movements of the continent that we have discussed and elaborated as proposals and that are contained in the document “Alternatives for the Americas” of the Continental Social Alliance.

The recognition of the importance of concrete initiatives by some governments of the region, such as:

- The construction of new spaces of negotiation with other agendas, like the recently created South American Community of Nations, which, for the social movements, is still a project, whose contents and bearings should be discussed and disputed, in the meaning of a real counterpoint to the hegemonic pretensions of the government of the United States for the region.

- The reorganization of new strategic horizons of the processes in course, as is the case with MERCOSUR.  In this sense, the central labor unions and the other social movements of the region have an agenda that places objectives and social goals and proposes to overcome elements of the conservative paradigm on which MERCOSUR was based in the 1990s.

- The Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas as an ample alternative agenda for the negotiations between Latin American and Caribbean nations in clear opposition to the agenda of the FTAA and free trade agreements.  For the social movements of the continent, this initiative is emphasized in this context by its method, its agenda and by the possibilities for immediate application, recognizing among its positive points: the act of containing and reflecting in its formulation various of the proposals elaborated by the social movements and their place in a practical manner, already laid down in agreements with immediate impacts, treating it not only as an agenda for growth of markets, but the search for complementariness, of direct relationships between national economies without the “intermediation” of the great multinationals of world commerce, opening the possibility of trade without the use of international devices.

From some of these general principals, it possesses an open agenda of dialogue and the joint construction of national and local governments, with communities and social movements, proposing concrete actions to confront and solve social problems in areas like health, the struggle against illiteracy, a new energy strategy (Petrosur) and against the absolute and private monopoly of mass communications (Telesur).  Publicly supporting and stimulating the debate on themes like the Bolivarian Alternative does not annul the strategic need of the social movements to maintain their political autonomy and the formulation of proposals, not to be confused with the “neutrality” in the ongoing disputes, especially in these moments when concrete counter-hegemony forces are developing in the region against the initiatives of the Bush government.

I. OBJECTIVES

A) Expand the struggle against the FTAA through three strategies:

1) Impede any and all kinds of advances in the FTAA negotiations until their definitive elimination.

2) Strengthen the struggles and campaigns against the bilateral agreements, placing emphasis on CAFTA and the free trade agreement between the U.S. and the Andean nations.

3) Continue the struggle to end NAFTA and avoid the approval of a NAFTA plus.

B) Emphasize the theme of the struggle against the WTO in the agendas of the movements, networks and campaigns to avoid advancements of the negotiations in process (Mini-ministerials, G-20 and others) and dismantle the corporate agenda of the WTO (Hong Kong, December 2005).

C) Visualize the theme of the Agreements on Economic Association, Political Concertation and Cooperation with the European Union, that already include the free trade agreements with Mexico and Chile, and that are now working on negotiations with MERCOSUR, the Andean region and Central America.

D) Maintain as a campaign the focal points of struggle and mobilization referring to the themes of: external debt, militarization, privatization of goods and public services, considering the role that International Financial Institutions (IFIs) have in these topics.

E) Strengthen the processes of discussion and construction of Alternatives beginning from the document of the Alternatives of the Continental Social Alliance, as well as events of regional or continental character, that contribute to the integration of communities, such as the CSN, MERCOSUR, etc.

F) Promote the ideas contained in the Bolivarian Alternative as a concrete and realistic proposal that opens new possibilities for integration of peoples with an anti-imperialist character and of the application in many aspects of the socio-economic and cultural life of our peoples.

II. OBJECTIVES AND ACTIONS

Theme: FTAA and Bilateral Agreements.  Objectives: Impede any advance in the negotiations of the FTAA.  Actions: Strengthen the struggles and campaigns against bilateral agreements; Tasks of monitoring the FTAA negotiations; Pressuring governments to abandon the FTAA; Establish greater contact with Caribbean organizations to place pressure on the FTAA negotiations; Support popular consultation and assemblies as part of the process of mobilization and resistance against the FTAA and Free Trade; agree upon on concrete processes in discussion and negotiation between governments of Latin America; Push mobilization and resistance in Central America and the Andean Region; Develop legal initiatives for the defense of the sovereignty and the constitutional rights of our countries and peoples; Stimulate the coordination of actions of resistance and pressure with organizations of the U.S. for the free trade agreements that include countries of the Caribbean, Central America and the Andean Region; Promote the formulation of parliamentary fronts against the bilateral agreements and FTAA negotiations; Support analysis and resistance against the free trade agreements of our countries amongst themselves and with Asian countries; Attempt to dismantle the agreements achieved in NAFTA; Stop initiatives to negotiate a NAFTA plus; Carry out actions and campaigns of active solidarity with the distinct struggles in Andean and Central American countries, to make the repression in those countries visible.

Theme: WTO.  Objectives: Emphasize the theme of struggle against the WTO to avoid the advance of negotiations and dismantle the corporate agenda.  Actions: Give priority to the mobilization and popular education in the theme of resistance to the corporate agenda of the WTO; Carry out actions of pressure to demand that the governments do not commit to further negotiations in process; Produce graphic and audiovisual materials from Latin America collecting educational and mobilization experiences on topics like defense of water, of health, of public services and culture, as well as the impacts of subsidies on production and agro-industrial commercialization of the European Union and the U.S.; Construct a network and a follow-up team and a strategy for the WTO negotiations.

Theme: European Union and Latin America and the Caribbean.  Objectives: Make the theme of the Agreements of Economic Association, Political Agreement and Cooperation with the European Union visible.  Actions: Follow up on the theme of impacts of the agreements already signed in Latin America with Europe; Impede the advance of new agreements of economic association, political agreement, and Cooperation with the European Union like the negotiations with MERCOSUR, the Andean Region, Central America and the agreements of association with countries of the Caribbean (Economic Partnership – EPA); Support construction of the bi-continental network of the European Union and Latin America and the Caribbean

Theme: Campaigns.  Objectives: Support actions of mobilizations and education on external debt, militarization, social exclusion, and privatizations as well as International Financial Institutions.  Actions: Push as a priority the Campaign for the Demilitarization of the Americas and the struggles tied to the Plan Colombia, the Puebla Panama Plan, the Initiative for the Integration of Regional South American Infrastructure, and the struggles for the withdrawal of foreign troops in Haiti; Support the campaign against the policies of the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF); Expand the struggles in defense of public health, education, water and telecommunications for the sovereignty and rights of communities; Push spaces for public commentary on external debt, in social and ecological audiences, as a step for the suspension of the payments of illegitimate debts.

Theme: Alternatives and Integration.  Objectives: Strengthen the processes of discussion and construction of Alternatives.  Actions: Relate the discussion of “Alternatives for the Americas” and the proposals of the social movements with the debates and negotiations in process of the agreements that governments of the region are entering into, which will provide us with elements to combat “free trade” in whatever its manifestation and, at the same time, push the integration of communities from the spaces where this is already possible; Promote the documents that have already been created for the Bolivarian Alternative, as well as concrete steps like a new form of integration that opposes the designs of the United States.  In this sense, promote with the national and local governments the necessary steps to strengthen this initiative for the benefit of communities; Recognize the positive strategic points that can already be clear from all these spaces; Open a critical dialogue on the points that have not been mentioned or that provoke doubts or questions; Deepen the debate on the Social Letter of the Americas; Support the organization and achievement of the III Summit of the Americas (Mar del Plata, Argentina) as a process of strengthening the CSA and the campaigns, as well as the World Social Forum in Venezuela; Contribute to the Social Forum of the Caribbean and the Mesoamerican Forum.

III. INSTITUTIONS OF CONTINENTAL COORDINATION OF THE CAMPAIGN

Continental Coordination.  Continuing the experience initiated in January 2002 during the second World Social Forum, the Continental Coordination of the Campaign is made up of two representatives of movements, committees, chapters or platforms per country and two per continental or regional network.  Continental Secretary:  will maintain its headquarters in Brazil and is comprised of the Secretary of the CSA and the Secretary of the Brazilian Campaign against the FTAA.  Contact: secr-cont@uol.com.br  Tel: 55-11-21089129  Fax: 55-11-3272-9601.  Rua Caetano Pinto, 757 CEP 03041-000 São Paulo – Brazil.  Intermediary Institution: will promote the functioning of an intermediary coordinating organism between regional campaigns (north, central, Caribbean, Andean and MERCOSUR) for political analysis and articulation of actions in the struggle against the FTAA and free trade.  Continuing our firm decision to fight against the FTAA and free trade and with the objective of evaluating and constructing the strategy for the next phase, we will meet again in Havana, Cuba, for the fifth Hemispheric Encounter against the FTAA, Free Trade and for the Integration of Peoples, from June 27 to 30, 2006.

IV.  MOBILIZATIONS AND CONTINENTAL EVENTS

- February 2005 – January 2006: Student Caravan for Latin American Integration

- May 4^th – 5^th: Meeting with legislators from Mexico, Canada and the U.S. for a plan against FTAA+.  (Washington)

- May 14^th – 15^th: Assembly of Venezuelan Social Movements.  (Caracas)

- June 4^th: Public launch of the summons to the Third Summit of the Peoples of the Americas.

- August 7 – 15: World Youth Festival.  (Venezuela)

- August 14^th – 15^th: Meeting of the Hemispheric Council.  Polycentric World Social Forum.  (Caracas)

- September 10^th: International Day of Struggle against the WTO.  (Via Campesina)

- September 26^th – 30^th: World Encounter of Struggle Against External Debt and Southern Jubilee Assembly.  (Havana)

- October 7^th – 8^th: Continental Assembly of Women and Children of CLOC.  (Guatemala)

- October 9^th – 11^th: Continental CLOC Congress.  (Guatemala)

- October 12^th – 17^th:  Days of Struggle Against the FTAA and Free Trade Agreements.

- October 12^th: Cry of the Excluded

- October 17^th: World Action of the World Women’s March.

- October 5^th – November 17^th (International Teachers’ and Students’ Day):  Continental “Education is Not for Sale” Day.  (SEPA Network)

- November 4^th: Hemispheric Mobilization of the Third Summit of the Peoples of the Americas under the slogan NO TO BUSH.

- November 1^st – 5^th: Third Summit of the Peoples of the Americas.  (Mar de Plata, Argentina)

- November 1^st – 5^th: Education Forum.  (Mar de Plata, Argentina)

- November 4^th – 6^th: Second Mesoamerican Women’s Encounter.  (Guatemala)

- December 12^th – 14^th: VI Mesoamerican Forum.  (Costa Rica)

- January 2006: Assembly of the Peoples of the Caribbean.  (Venezuela)

- January 25^th – 26^th, 2006: World Social Forum Polycentric and II World Social Forum of the Americas.  (Venezuela)

- July 1^st – 4^th, 2006: Caribbean Social Forum.  (Martinique)

- May, 2006: Linking Alternatives: Tribunal of the Peoples against Transnationals.  (Vienna)

CONVERGENCE OF THE MOVEMENTS OF THE PEOPLES OF THE AMERICAS (COMPA)

HAVANA DECLARATION

Our representatives of different social organizations, from diverse regions of the Americas, united on the occasion of the IV Hemispheric Encounter of the Struggle against the FTAA, broadcast the following declaration:

a) We express our solidarity with the Cuban government and people, victim of the criminal block by the United States and we demand most energetically that it immediately cease, as well as punish the terrorists that operate from Miami, Florida, among others, the terrorist criminal Luis Posada Carriles, responsible for horrible crimes against civilians.  At this time we demand that the five Cuban heroes unjustly held prisoners in the U.S. for fulfilling their obligation to defend their mother country.

b) We call on the peoples of the Americas to expand the anti-capitalist struggle, strengthening with local, regional and global actions the different campaigns against the “Free” Trade Agreements, the WTO, FTAA, etc., whether or not they have been ratified or signed by the governments of the Americas; and also expand the campaign not to repay the illegitimate external debt and demand that the historic debt that the developed countries have with the peoples of the global South be paid.  “WE ARE THE CREDITORS, NOT THE DEBTORS.”

c) We urge the movements of the peoples of the Americas to continue and to support the campaign to boycott the international financial organisms YES TO LIFE, NO TO THE IFIS (IADB, World Bank, IMF and others) strategically allied with imperialism and transnationals; and also against the Puebla Panama Plan and the Plan Colombia.

d) We demand the immediate dismantlement of U.S. military bases and eradication of the militarization in the world, instead promoting PEACE.

e) We reject military intervention in Haiti and we call for solidarity with the people of Haiti in their struggle for sovereignty and self-determination.

f) We invite the peoples of the Americas to join the Bolivarian Alternative of the Americas, against the FTAA, enriching its construction from the bases with initiatives by each one of its peoples.

g) We express our solidarity with the struggle of each one of the communities of the world for the construction of just, humane and freely determined societies.

Because ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE AND NECESSARY
We continue constructing alternatives to neoliberalism.
Havana, Cuba, April 29, 2005

Comisión Nacional de Mujeres Trabajadoras CONAMUT, Venezuela; Consejo Cívico de Organizaciones Populares e Indígenas de Honduras COPINH; CEIBA, Guatemala; CIEPAC, México; Centro Memorial Martin Luther King CMLK, Cuba; UNDECA, Costa Rica; CENTRAL SANDINISTA DE TRABAJADORES, Nicaragua; FEDERACION DE SINDICATOS DE TRABAJADORES UNIVERSITARIOS DE CENTRO AMERICA, MEXICO Y EL CARIBE; GRUDESA, Nicaragua; POPOL NAC; Confederación General de Trabajadores Tendencia Clasista de Venezuela, CGT; Confederación Sindical de Trabajadores "Benito Escobar"; Organizaciones Magisteriales de Honduras; Sindicato de Trabajadores de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras; ENCUENTRO POPULAR, Costa Rica; RED COMAL, Honduras; Coordinadora Nacional de Resistencia Popular de Honduras; PAPDA, Haití; Consejo de Unidad Popular CUP, Republica Dominicana; Unión de Trabajadores de Suroeste de Estados Unidos; Central General de Trabajadores de Brasil; Marcha Mundial de las Mujeres; Centro de estudio sobre América, CEA Cuba; Confederación de Trabajadores, Ecuador; FEDELEC Comité de Empresa "Emelnorte", Ecuador; Federación de Profesionales de la Educación Superior, FEPDES-ATD, Nicaragua; SINTRATELEFONOS, Colombia; Coordinadora Metropolitana de Solidaridad con Cuba, Chile; Frente Simón Rodríguez, Escuela Internacional de Educación Física y Deportes (delegación de Venezuela); Central Única de Trabajadores de Brasil; Corriente Sindical Clasista, Brasil; Sindicato Mexicano de Electricistas; PDVSA Refinería El Palito - INTRAPET- Carabobo, Venezuela; Canadian Union of Postal Workers; Sindicato Único nacional de trabajadores de la Industria de la Construcción y Similares, SUNTRACS, Panamá; Sindicato Único de Empleados de la Universidad Michocana, México; Sindicato Único de Trabajadores de Sural, Venezuela; Sindicato de Trabajadores del Municipio del Cantón Santa Clara, Ecuador; Central Única de Trabajadores de Colombia; Sindicato de Trabajadores de Empresas de Servicios Públicos y Entidades Descentralizadas, SINTRAEMSDES, Colombia; Alternativa Patriótica Popular, APP, Panamá; TV Caricuao, Venezuela; Confederación Afiliada al Seguro Social, CONFEUNASSC-CNC, Ecuador; Fundación Campesina "Maria Luisa Gamez de la Torre", Ecuador; Confederación Bancaria, Chile; Sindicato de Trabajadores de Impuestos y Aduanas, SINTRADIAN, Colombia; CECOPAL, Argentina; Organización Nacional del Poder Popular, México; Asociación Nacional de Empleados del Banco de la Republica, Colombia; Central Nacional de Trabajadores de Canaria; Comité Sindical de Mujeres - PET- Chile; Federation of Independent Trade Unions + ngo's, Trinidad y Tobago; Grupo Trashumantes Río Grande - Universidad Trashumantes, Argentina; Bloque Anti-Imperialista, Guatemala; H.I.J.O.S, Guatemala; Coordinadora Continental Bolivariana, Región Caribe; Federación Grafica del Perù; Center for Social Justice, Canada; Oilfields Workers - Trade Union, Trinidad y Tobago; CLOC; Grenada Trades Union Council

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