[1] New Orleans people´s summit site launched
http://cupe.
April 9, 2008 09:44 AM
A new web site was launched today to provide timely information on
the Security and Prosperity Partnership summit to be held in New
Orleans, Louisiana, on April 21-22.
The site will cover a meeting of the "Three Amigos" (Canada, Mexico
and the United States) as they continue setting a secret trade agenda
using SPP without the consent of their citizens or legislative
bodies.
Civil society organizations in New Orleans will host "The People's
Summit: Our Response to NAFTA Expansion", an inclusive gathering to
educate the public on the SPP.
Go to www.summitneworlean
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[2] People´s Summit New Orleans- response to NAFTA + (SPP)
Program
http://www.commonfr
oples_summit_
April 21 - 23, 2008 o New Orleans, Louisiana, USA -
www.summitneworlean
Coming together for our communities
Linking the Gulf Coast struggle to the fight for the survival of
communities in Mexico, Canada, Quebec & the rest of the United States
Building collective knowledge and action to transform NAFTA & other
unjust economic policies pushed by Bush, Calderon, & Harper
Sunday, 4/20
12:30pm
Workshop: NAFTA Gets Militarized: The Security and Prosperity
Partnership of North America, New Orleans International Human Rights
Film Festival, Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center, 1618 Oretha
Castle Haley Blvd.
7:30pm
N.O. Intrnt´l H.R. Film Festival Films on the Prison-Industrial
Complex-criminal justice organizing benefit, Zeitgeist Multi-
Disciplinary Arts Ctr.
Monday, 4/21
9am - 12pm
Community Tour of New Orleans & Story Circles at "the Village" -
Next to the Canal St. Ferry on the riverfront in Algiers
12 - 1:30pm
Opening Ceremony & Lunch at "the Village" - Next to the Canal St.
Ferry on the riverfront in Algiers
2pm - 5pm
Understanding Who Profits & How: NAFTA+ and Katrina Profiteering
6pm - 9pm
Understanding Who Profits & How: NAFTA+ and Katrina Profiteering
Tuesday, 4/22
9am - 4pm
Self-organized sessions addressing four topics: increased
militarism, privatization, forced immigration and migration, and
abuse of the environment.
Presenters include: Peoples Institute for Survival and Beyond,
National Network for Immigrant & Refugee Rights, Malcolm X Grass
Roots Movement, Mexican Action Network on Free Trade, New Orleans
Worker Center for Racial Justice, Canadian Union of Public Employees,
and many others.
Session locations: Loyola University, Craige Cultural Center, McKenna
Museum of African American Art, and Greater Little Zion Baptist
Church
6pm - 9pm
Breaking Inferiority & Superiority to Restore Ourselves & Our
Communities
To get more information contact:
James Williams, Summit Organizer at 504-307-6588 or
peoplessummit@
Click here to download a .pdf version of this poster
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[3] People´s Summit New Orleans -Sponsors
The following cosponsoring organizations made the New Orleans
People's Summit possible.
Advocates for Environmental Human Rights
All Residents Together
Alliance for Democracy
Alliance for Responsible Trade
American Friends Service Committee
Black Alliance for Just Immigration
Center of Concern
CIEPAC, A.C. (Center for Economic and Political Investigations for
Community Action) - Chiapas, Mexico
Common Frontiers Canada
Critical Resistance-New Orleans
European Dissent
Free Palestine Alliance
Global Exchange
Greater New Orleans Organizers´ Roundtable
Institute for Policy Studies
Interfaith Worker Justice - New Orleans
Left Turn Magazine
Malcolm X Grassroots Movement
Maryknoll Global Concerns
Mennonite Central Committee--New Orleans
National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
National Organizing Committee for a Reconstruction Party
New Orleans International Human Rights Film Fest
New Orleans' Worker Center for Racial Justice
Peoples Institute for Survival and Beyond
Quixote Center
Red Mexicana de Acción Frente al Libre Comercio (RMALC)
Réseau Québécois sur L´Intégration Continentale (RQIC)
Small Planet Fund
Survivors Village
The Council of Canadians
Twomey Center for Peace Through Justice
United States Marxist Lenonist Organization
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[4] The People´s Summit: Challenging NAFTA and the SPP in New
Orleans, April 21-22, 2008
http://www.canadian
On April 21 and 22, 2008, Prime Minister Harper will join his U.S.
and Mexican counterparts in New Orleans for the fourth annual
Security and Prosperity Partnership Leaders' Summit. As in previous
years, he will be joined by an entourage of CEOs from the North
American Competitiveness Council - the only non-governmental advisory
body to the SPP, and the only group allowed to see any details of the
trilateral discussions.
But this year the public-private partnership they call the SPP won´t
be the only party in town. A grassroots coalition of New Orleans
social justice organizations has organized a People´s Summit to
coincide with the official trinational meeting. Activists from across
the continent will meet at this counter-summit to discuss a people´s
alternative to deep integration - a people´s vision for North
America.
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March 31, 2008
SPP SUMMIT ALERT FOR APRIL 20-22, 2008
Hurricane Katrina reconstruction in 2008:
A Bush `showcase´ or a US Gulf Coast tragedy?
Hurricane Katrina crashed into the US Gulf Coast in August of 2005.
It precipitated one of the greatest episodes of internal displacement
of US residents in that country´s history with over a million people
forced from their homes and communities. The US government failed to
adequately protect the rights of Gulf Coast residents during
displacement - particularly the poor, immigrants and people of
colour, children, the elderly, disabled persons and other vulnerable
populations. Almost three years have passed since Katrina, and the US
government has not upheld the rights of the displaced by failing to
address the need for affordable housing, health care access, and
adequate employment that would enable displaced persons to come home.
In his State of the Union address in Washington last February, US
President George Bush announced that he would be `showcasing´ his
government´s Katrina reconstruction efforts while hosting in New
Orleans the IV Security and Prosperity (SPP) Summit between the
leaders of the US, Canada, and Mexico. The dates for this SPP Summit
are April 20-22.
Grass roots organizations in New Orleans are calling on people from
Chiapas to Alaska to attend The People´s Summit to be held in New
Orleans, April 20-22. The organizers´ plan is to link the Gulf Coast
struggle to the fight for survival in other North American
communities where people are working to overcome predatory economic
policies and unjust trade agreements. They've prepared a flyer with
the summit details, which can be downloaded and printed for
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