Enlazando Alternativas

Photostream: Linking Alternatives 4 - Enlazando Alternativas 4

May 2010

Photostream from the Linking Alternatives-Enlazando Alternativas Peoples' Summit that took place in Madrid (Spain) from 14 to 18 May 2010.

Press Release: Permanent Peoples' Tribunal, Putting European corporations on trial

May 2010

Press Release: the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal (PPT) will convene in Madrid (14-17 May 2010) as part of the Fourth Peoples' Alternatives Summit - Enlazandos Alternativas 4 (EA4) - in parallel to the EU's trade negotiations with Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) nations...

Call for Submission of Cases to the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal (PPT): Madrid, May 2010

May 2010

Alternative Regionalisms

This new session of the Tribunal –the third one to be held at the bi-regional level– will take place in Madrid, Spain, on May 14th and 15th, in the framwork of the Fourth Enlazando Alternatives Summit (EA4).

Conceptual Framework: Madrid Session of the Permanent Peoples Tribunal, May 2010

May 2010

Alternative Regionalisms

This framework document aims to outline the principal ideas, arguments and core concepts that have developed over the long and rich process of the work driven by the Europe Latin America & Caribbean bi-regional Network Enlazando Alternativas and by the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal over the...

Latin America–Europe relations: Time for a new era

April 2010

Brid Brennan

In response to the aggressive corporate-led trade agenda of the EU, social movements from Latin America and Europe are mounting an Alternative Peoples’ Summit, the Enlazando Alternativas 4, which takes place from May 14-17 in Madrid.

Call to the Peoples' Alternative Summit, Enlazando Alternativas 4

February 2010

Call to all the social networks and organisations, trades unions, political forces and civil society movements to join the Peoples' Alternative Summit in defense of peoples' sovereignty, human rights, participatory democracy, labour rights, the rights of women and indigenous peoples, social...

European Union and Transnational Corporations

November 2009

Brid Brennan

David Llistar

Jesús Carrión, Erika Gonzalez, Pedro Ramiro, Juan Hernández Zubizarreta, Tom Kucharz, Francesco Martone

Extensive documentation of the operations of the European transnational corporations in Latin America and the Caribbean and their systematic abuses of human rights is brought to the attention of European policy makers in the European Parliament Hearing held in Brussels on November 18, 2009.

Profit Before People and Human Rights

October 2009

Brid Brennan

David Llistar

Jesús Carrión, Erika Gonzalez, Tom Kucharz, Karen Lang, Francesco Martone

The report exposes the role of EU institutions in constructing a complex political and legal architecture which allows European transnational companies to operate with impunity in the region.