People-centered regional integration

There is a need to reclaim regional integration by civil society and social movements, to promote a people-centred regionalism. People-centered regional alternatives would mean rethinking the current corporate-led model of development, and seek regional integration based on the principles of cooperation and complementarity. People-centred regionalism would break with the export-driven development model and would be a mechanism of raising living standards, promoting and protecting our industries and protecting our agriculture. People-centred regional integration would be based on the democratisation of decision-making in all areas of the economy. There are a myriad of areas where regional alternatives make more sense than pursuing national or global ones. These would include, among others, areas like climate change, food shortages, industrial development and regional trade, policy for the use of natural resources, energy and infrastructure, and the question of regional finance and migration.

Video Documentary: Global Crises, Regional Solutions

May 2012
Cecilia Olivet

Activists from Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe argue that regional integration is the only viable response to the convergence of economic, climate, food and energy crises.

Rethinking regionalisms in times of crises

October 2013
Cecilia Olivet
Gonzalo Berrón
Sol Trumbo Vila
Carlos Bedoya, Jenina Joy Chavez, Dorothy Grace Guerrero, Afsar Jafri, Dot Keet, Meena R Menon, Mariana Mortágua, Graciela Rodriguez, Andy Storey, Oscar Ugarteche

The demand for people-centred regional alternatives has been at the core of people’s struggles in Latin America, Asia, Africa and Europe. This reader pulls together perspectives of social movement activists, describing the restrictive regional spaces within which they work and propose regional alternatives.

International Call Cumbre de los Pueblos 2013

January 2013

Between the 26th and 28th of January 2013, the CELAC Summit (EU-LAC) will be held in Santiago, Chile. A Peoples Summit will be held in parallel from 25-27th of January.

Firenze 10 + 10 and the changing character of power

November 2012
Hilary Wainwright

A series of interviews with young activists shows signs of a movement that connects local everyday struggles to a global movement, and one that resists by creating alternatives in the present.

EU Economic Governance – For People or for the Banks?

November 2011
Alternative Regionalisms

Did fiscal irresponsibility cause the EU crisis? Are European institutions democratically accountable? Is the European Commission politically neutral? Check out TNI's debates with a representative of the European Commission.

 

Emancipatory transformation and alternative development paths within and from regions of the South

November 2010

Alternative ‘regional’ South-South alliances and strategies hold out the most promising possibilities for shifting the global balance of power and creating living non-capitalist alternatives

Alternatives to neo-liberal globalisation

October 2010

Alternatives to neo-liberal globalisation are needed that not only change people-to-people and South-South relations and situations, but also South-North relations and inter-actions to the benefit of all of humanity and our common planetary home.

Alternatives to the Current Global Trade System and Regime

July 2010

The challenges facing policy makers, analysts and activists dedicated to formulating environmentally sound, social and economically sound trade policies demand that we redefine the role and purpose of trade altogether.

‘The Crisis’ and the Crises of Global Capitalism - Challenges for, and Alternatives from 'The South’

March 2010

Alternative socieconomic strategies implemented by countries and peoples of the South could serve as a model for global alternatives to the globalised capitalism.

Integration of the Peoples

June 2008
Cecilia Olivet
Ricardo Santos

This documentary aims to present the state of the debate on alternatives for regional integration as this is unfolding among social movements and civil society organizations throughout the Latin American continent.