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NISGUA’S U.S. Alliances
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Although NISGUA works on several issues independently of other organizations, NISGUA also plays an active role in many coalitions. Working in coalition with solidarity, human rights, religious, policy, and community organizations that share common goals increases our movements’ ability to coordinate outreach and education, network local activists, affect policy change, and gauge impact.

LAWG
The Latin America Working Group is one of the nation's longest standing coalitions dedicated to foreign policy. The Latin America Working Group and its sister organization, the Latin America Working Group Education Fund, carry out the coalition's mission to encourage U.S. policies towards Latin America that promote human rights, justice, peace and sustainable development. The Guatemala Subgroup of LAWG consists of nearly a dozen non-governmental religious, humanitarian, grassroots, and policy organizations committed to changing U.S. foreign policy toward Guatemala. The Subgroup is a trusted voice in Congress, and provides reliable guidance to policymakers who want their decisions affecting Guatemala to be grounded in human rights. http://www.lawg.org

CAFTA Coalition
The Coalition Against Free Trade Agreements is made up of civil society organizations in the United States working to promote human rights and democracy in Central America. The Coalition supports fair trade and sustainable development, including, but not limited to, transparency in trade negotiations, parity of enforcement for labor and environmental provisions, and the protection of basic public services such as social security and access to water. It therefore rejects any trade agreement that follows the NAFTA model, which has caused a “race to the bottom” in labor and environmental standards, attacked institutions of democratic governance and national sovereignty, and has compromised food security in Mexico, the U.S., and Canada. This model should not be extended to Central America. http://www.stopcafta.org/

LASC Coalition
The Latin America Solidarity Coalition (LASC) is an association of national and local U.S.-based grassroots Latin America and Caribbean solidarity groups, many of which have long histories of working with grassroots organizations throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. LASC’s objective is to define common goals and shared strategies for these groups. LASC’s work circles around several hemisphere-wide issues as well as country-specific topics. LASC follows a solidarity model and determines its strategies based on the expressed needs of partners in Latin America and the Caribbean. LASC has six key calls: resist the Free Trade Area of the Americas and other exploitative free trade efforts; oppose Plan Colombia; close the School of the Americas/WHISC and U.S. military bases throughout Latin America; end U.S. military aid and training, respect indigenous treaty, land, and cultural rights; end the drug war’s assault on people of color and the poor; and stop attacks against immigrants. http://www.lasolidarity.org/index.shtml

NoPPP Network
The Network Opposed to Plan Puebla-Panama is a network of Northern organizations working to stop Plan Puebla-Panama and the model of corporate globalization behind it. The purpose of the network is to share information between organizations and build strategic alliances to support both the movements in the region and actions taken in the North (U.S./Canada/Europe) to stop the PPP. The NoPPP Network seeks to include grassroots groups, immigrant organizations, working class groups, students, and other constituencies that oppose the PPP and takes direction from grassroots organizations and anti-PPP movements in the region of Mexico and Central America. http://www.lasolidarity.org/noppp/index.htm

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