The new “alternative regionalisms” being promoted by social movements are, on the one hand, 'alternative' to the increasingly neo-liberal directions being taken, and the regional trade and investment liberalisation programs being adopted or imposed in the existing regional groupings of countries of the South. Social movement strategies for alternative regionalisms are also designed to counter... Read more
Presentation at the ‘Debating Europe’ meeting with representatives of the Directorate General for Trade of the European Commission, set up by the TransNational Institute, Brussels, 3rd November 2009.... Read more
Hoy hay reconocimiento general del hecho que la globalización ha fracasado a la hora de cumplir con su triple promesa de sacar a los países del estancamiento, eliminar la pobreza y reducir las desigualdades. La profunda recesión económica mundial que atravesamos, cuyas raíces se hunden en los procesos de globalización y liberalización económica dirigidos por las transnacionales y en la... Read more
This debate took place in Brussels on 3rd November 2009. It is part of TNI's Debating Europe Series.
As a member of the 80.000 people community in the Pacific coast of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec (Oaxaca, Mexico), BETINA CRUZ VELÁSQUEZ is part of the growing resistance against the wind farm projects set up by European (mainly Spanish) transnational corporations She is on her way to Copenhagen (COP15) from Geneva (7th WTO Ministerial) with the Trade to Climate Caravan to denounce the malicious... Read more
Government negotiators have jetted in to Copenhagen primed for fractious, coffee-fuelled all-night negotiations, as each country battles to reach some kind of face-saving deal that sounds far-reaching and progressive, but won’t damage its own economy. All involved claim to be worried about the possibility that talks might collapse: but would a deal, any deal, be better than nothing?... Read more
As a farmer from Paraguay affected by genetically modified (GM) soy monoculture plantations, JORGE GALEANO is part of the resistance against false solutions to climate change. He is on the way to Copenhagen (COP15) from Geneva (7th WTO Ministerial) with the Trade to Climate Caravan to advocate for the reversion of the land occupied by transgenic monoculture in favour of the landless.... Read more
Cecilia Olivet of Transnational Institute and Mary-Lou Malig of Focus on the Global South spoke to Amparo Miciano, an activist travelling in the bus who works mainly on women's rights in rural areas.... Read more
WTO: Cause not Solution to the Crisis!! Myriam vander Stichele Briefing on role of trade rules, in particular those in the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), in causing the global economic crisis... Read more
