Trade and corporate issues

Rolling Back the Power of Transnationals :
Experiences and strategies from the peoples of Latina America and Europe (1)
Thursday 29th of January, 8h30-11h30, UFPA Profissional, Cp Cp 04

Co-organizers
Red Birregional Europa-America Latina y el Caribe Enlazando Alternativas, Alianza
Social Continental (ASC), Transnational Institute (TNI), Ecologistas en Accion,
Observatorio de Multinacionales en América Latina (OMAL), France Amérique Latine
(FAL), ATTAC Francia, CADTM, Grupo de la Izquierda Unitaria Europea/Izquierda Verde
Nórdica (GUE/NGL), SdL intercategoriale Asociacion, A Sud - Italia, Programa
Democracia y Transformación Global, Justícia i Pau Barcelona, SETEM-Catalunya, ODG,
Seattle-to-Brussels Network, Our World is not for Sale (OWINFS), La Vía Campesina

This activity will highlight the key campaigns aimed at rolling back the power of the transnational companies, which are
being developed in various regions of the world.
The aim of this activity is:
To exchange viewpoints about mobilization and campaigns that are currently challenging TNC abuse as well as trying to
hold them accountable.
To have an opportunity to discuss and develop plans and common strategies to strengthen the biregional Network
Enlazando Alternativas as well as the fruitful collaboration with the Permanent Peoples Tribunal, which held its latest
Session on the responsibility of the EU TNCs in Latin America during the Lima Summit between heads of State of Latin
America and the EU in may 2008.

Rolling Back the Power of Transnationals:
Experiences and strategies from the peoples of Latina America and Europe (2)
Thursday 29th of January, 12h00-15h00, UFPA Profissional, Ep, Ep 06

Co-organizers
Red Birregional Europa-America Latina y el Caribe Enlazando Alternativas, Alianza
Social Continental (ASC), Transnational Institute (TNI), Ecologistas en Accion,
Observatorio de Multinacionales en América Latina (OMAL), France Amérique
Latine (FAL), ATTAC Francia, CADTM, Grupo de la Izquierda Unitaria
Europea/Izquierda Verde Nórdica (GUE/NGL), SdL intercategoriale Asociacion, A
Sud - Italia, Programa Democracia y Transformación Global, Justícia i Pau
Barcelona, SETEM-Catalunya, ODG, Seattle-to-Brussels Network, Our World is not
for Sale (OWINFS), La Vía Campesina intercategoriale, Asociacion A Sud – Italia

... Continuation of the seminar above

The Trade Policy of the European Union in Latin America (1):
Unmasking the Global Europe strategy and partnership agreements
Friday 30th of January, 8h30-11h30, UFPA Basico, Hb, H5

Co-organizers
Red Birregional Europa-América Latina y el Caribe Enlazando Alternativas, Alianza
Social Continental (ASC), ATTAC France, Transnational Institute (TNI), Transform!,
Espace Marx, Ecologistas en Acción, France-Amerique Latine (FAL), Grupo de la
Izquierda Unitaria Europea/Izquierda Verde Nórdica (GUE/NGL), Asociacion A Sud -
Italia, CADTM, SdL intercategoriale, Solidaridad Suecia-América Latina (SAL), Seattleto-
Brussels Network, Our World is not for Sale (OWINFS), Centro de Asesoría Laboral
del Perú (CEDAL) Peru, La Vía Campesina

At the core of the trade and investiment ‘Global Europe’ strategy lies the new generation of regional and bilateral Free Trade
Agreements (FTAs). Other elements include the reinforced cooperation in order to facilitate the access of markets to
European exporters; a policy to obtain unlimited access to the raw materials all over the world, as well as initiatives to
redefine the trade relations between the EU, China and the USA.
The seminar aims at promotingpublic debate forums about the FTAs of the EU, cross-fertilising the information from
different spaces –local, regional and global level – on the different stages of the negotiations, and strengthening our
campaigns and resistance.

The Trade Policy of the European Union in Latin America (2):
Strategies of bi-regional Resistance and Alternatives
Friday 30th of January, 12h00-15h00, UFRA, Ciencias Florestais – CF 003

Co-organizers
Red Birregional Europa-América Latina y el Caribe Enlazando Alternativas, Alianza
Social Continental (ASC), ATTAC France, Transnational Institute (TNI), Transform!,
Espace Marx, Ecologistas en Acción, France-Amerique Latine (FAL), Grupo de la
Izquierda Unitaria Europea/Izquierda Verde Nórdica (GUE/NGL), Asociacion A Sud -
Italia, CADTM, SdL intercategoriale, Solidaridad Suecia-América Latina (SAL), Seattle-to-
Brussels Network, Our World is not for Sale (OWINFS), Centro de Asesoría Laboral del
Perú (CEDAL) Peru, La Vía Campesina

Following the first part (see above), we will discuss how to strengthen links between our struggles, and how to construct a
broader resistance against the destructive policies of the EU.
Our aim is to work in order to construct a world based on principles of peace, citizen participation, social justice, universal access to human rights, sustainability, with food sovereignty and the recognition of the right of the peoples to selfdetermination.

From the struggles against ALCA to the Alternatives.
Contributions to the integration of the people from Americas
Friday 30th of January, 15h30-18h30, UFRA, Prédio Central - Bloco C, C 002

Co-organizers
Hemispheric Social Alliance (HSA), Espace Marx, Transnational Institute (TNI),
OWINFS – Our World is not for Sale

Migration without Borders and without Directives (1):
Global Europe/Fortress and the situation of migrants in America and in Europe
Domestic Workers, Transnational Migrant Platform
Saturday 31th of January, 12h00-15h00, UFRA, Medicina-Veterinaria – MV 001

Co-organizers
Red Birregional Europa-América Latina y el Caribe “Enlazando Alternativas”,
Hemispheric Social Alliance (HSA), Trade Union Confederation of Americas (TUCA),
France-Amerique Latine (FAL), Transnational Institute (TNI), Ecologistas en Acción,
Grupo de la Izquierda Unitaria Europea/Izquierda Verde Nórdica (GUE/NGL), OWINFS
– Our World is not for Sale, RESPECT-Europewide Campaign for the Rights of Migrant

The Homeland Security policies of the USA as well as the “Return Directive” and the EU pact are exerting a tough regime
towards the institutionalization and criminalization, detention and deportation of migrants and refugees- the retention and
expulsion of foreigners. The workshop aims at discussing and developing a global framework of analysis of migration within
the context of the neoliberal economic model.

Migration without Borders and without Directives (2):
Building bi-regional resistance and alternatives by the social and migrant movements
Saturday 31th of January, 15h30-18h30, UFRA, Medicina-Veterinaria – MV 001

Co-organizers
Red Birregional Europa-América Latina y el Caribe “Enlazando Alternativas”,
Hemispheric Social Alliance (HSA), Trade Union Confederation of Americas (TUCA),
France-Amerique Latine (FAL), Transnational Institute (TNI), Ecologistas en Acción,
Grupo de la Izquierda Unitaria Europea/Izquierda Verde Nórdica (GUE/NGL), OWINFS
– Our World is not for Sale, RESPECT-Europewide Campaign for the Rights of
Migrant Domestic Workers, Transnational Migrant Platform

This workshop will enable social and migration movements in the North and South to debate about the resistance strategies
in facing the current trade and migration polices which affect their livelihoods. It aims also at creating proposals to demand
the re-acknowledgement of the migrants as subjects with rights. It will help the migrant movements to develop joint
strategies between social migrant and trade union movements in order to resist the current regime of migration.

Emerging crises: de-globalisation?
opportunities and challenges for regional alternatives
Saturday 31st of January, 12h00-15h00, UFPA Basico, Hb, H 4

Co-organizers:
Transnational Institute (TNI) Alianza Social Continental (ASC),
Focus on the Global South, Third World Network-Africa
and SIEMENPUU (Finland)

The global financial system is unravelling at great speed. But despite the intensity of the crisis a ‘business as usual’ agenda is
being pursued in the US and EU Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) and the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) which is
dis-integrating the existing and emerging regions of the South.
Finding solutions to the global crises has now become the major concern across the globe. This workshop will highlight the
debate around the idea of ‘de-globalisation’ and the challenges and possibilities of moving forward in the concretisation of
regional alternatives to the economic, financial, food, climate and energy crises and instead place the interest of people and
the planet at its center.
Migration without Borders and