June 2009
The Indigenous populations of the Peruvian Amazonia started a general and peaceful strike for almost 60 days to protest against 10 legislative decrees promoted by the Peruvian Government in order to comply with the Free trade Agreement (FTA) with US that threatens their rights and their environment. More specifically, the FTA with the US permits oil and mining companies to enter 44 out of 75 million hectares of Amazonian forest, which are Indigenous territories, without any kind of agreement or even consultation.
October 2008
This letter was delivered by hand to Robert B. Zoellick, president of the World Bank and the Acting Secretary General of International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) as Telefonica, Telecom Italia, and ETI.
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May 2008
Accused and judged before the Tribunal are European transnational companies in Latin America as well as the national and international mechanisms and actors which enable, legitimate and support the companies in their actions.
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From 13th to 16th of May, the bi-regional network Europe-Latin America and Carribean is convening a session of the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal (PPT) within the Peoples' Summit Enlazando Alternativas.
May 2008
Press Release
Civil society organisations meeting in the People’s Social Summit in Lima denounce the recent decision of ETI and Telecom Italia this month to demand that the New York State Court freeze the accounts of the National Telecommunications Company (ENTEL) as part of a strategy of aggression against the government of Bolivia.
May 2008
The People’s Summit “Linking Alternatives 3” begin its activities today (13 May), finishing in four days time on 16 May in the National University of Engineering in Lima, Peru. The summit will be made up of several simultaneous forums along with artistic and musical events at the end of each day.
The debates will question the current neoliberal model and its proposals of asymmetric integration. It will also challenge the poverty, discrimination, environmental contamination, and repression of social movements that this model generates.
May 2008
The People's Summit starts promoting integration alternatives based on Justice, Solidarity and Peace
In a theatre of the National Engineering University packed to the seams with people, preventing many others from entering, the People’s Summit Linking Alternatives 3 began today in Lima, Peru.
February 2008
For the third time since 2004, we will hold the Enlazando Alternativas 3 encounter in
May 2008 in Lima, Peru, sponsored by various social movements and non-governmental
organizations in Europe and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). This gathering is a
Summit of the Peoples of both continents. It will coincide with the Fifth Summit of Heads of
State and Government of LAC and the EU, the highest political meeting of governments of the
two regions.
February 2008
Oliver Shykles
Telecom Italia's case against Bolivia at a secretive World Bank tribunal, ICSID, heralds an increasingly pro-corporate approach against southern countries under the aegis of the EU's Global Europe project.
January 2008
Actiegroep Stop ETI Nederland
De Nederlandse overheid staat toe dat haar internationale verdragen misbruikt worden door multinationals om arme landen af te persen.
January 2008
“Some multinational companies take over our natural resources, privatize basic services, fail to pay taxes and then, when they have no arguments in their defense, they go to the so-called ICSID. And then, in that World Bank tribunal, no country wins against the multinationals. So why do we need an ICSID where only the multinational companies can win?” – President Evo Morales of Bolivia
Another World Bank/Multinational Attack on Bolivia – Stop ICISD and Telecom Italia
Once again, Bolivia is under attack by multinationals and the World Bank.
