<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><h1><a href="http://www.baamboston.org/archives/112" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to NAFTA Failure and Alternatives For the Future +">NAFTA Failure and Alternatives For the Future<br></a></h1><br><p><strong><font size="+1">A Latin America conference in two parts</font></strong><br>
Sunday March 9th<br>
2-5:30pm<br>MIT Building 34 Room 101 <a href="http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=34&Buildings=go">map</a></p><p><a href="http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=34&Buildings=go"><br></a></p>
<p><strong>PART 1: NAFTA failure and alternatives for the future, 2-4pm</strong><br>
While NAFTA has increased trade and benefited hemispheric multinational
cooperations, it has not contributed significantly to hemispheric
employment, has lowered environmental and labor standards, and
increased inequalities in wealth and income. Now the emerging Security
and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) threatens a hemispheric military and
internal security state and a loss of local and regional control over
natural issues.<br>
<strong>Speakers:</strong> Carleen Pickard from the Council of
Canadians, Hector Sanchez from Global Exchange’s Mexico Program, and
Manual Perez Rocha from the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington
DC</p><p><br></p>
<p><strong> PART 2: Colombian Reality, Plan Colombia, and Stop the US-Colombian Trade Agreement</strong><br>A discussion of the reality of Colombia–recent history, civil war,
paramilitaries, including Plan Colombia, a US counterinsurgency war and
program for neoliberal repression of democracy masquerading as a war on
drugs. A presentation on the likely impacts of the Colombia Trade
Promotion Agreement (CTPA) and the role ofindividuals and organizations
in stopping the CTPA.<br>
<strong>Speakers:</strong> Maria Clemencia Ramirez from the Colombian
Institute of Anthropology and History and Luis Fernandez-Castro, a
Colombian community organizer.</p><p><br></p>
<p><strong>Sponsoring Organizations:</strong> Alliance for Democracy,
Greater Boston Latin American and Carribbean Coalition (and its 6
member organizations), Massachusetts Global Action, Jobs for Justice,
MIT Western Hemisphere Project, Global Exchange, American Friends
Service Committee Project Voice, Grassroots International</p></div></div><br>
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