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FTAA Links
Alliance for Responsible Trade
The alliance is a national coalition of organizations working for just and sustainable
trade policies.
Hemispheric Social Alliance
The Hemispheric Social Alliance is a forum where progressive organizations and
movements from around the Americas can gather, strategize, share information,
and plan joint actions. Sites in both Spanish and English.
Citizen's Trade Campaign
Citizen's Trade Campaign is an alliance of trade unions, environmental organizations,
churches, and farmers working for socially and environmentally sustainable trade
policy.
Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch
Global Trade Watch was created in 1993 to promote government and corporate accountability
in the international commercial agreements shaping the current version of globalization.
GTW is a division of the consumer group Public Citizen. Public Citizen's Global
Trade Watch division was one of the earliest organizers of the WTO protests in
Seattle.
Stop the FTAA
Grassroots mobilizing against the FTAA, with current information about efforts
in Miami and the events which will take place there in November 2003.
AFL-CIO FTAA Campaign
The AFL-CIO has launched a major campaign to stop the FTAA. Check out their website
for ballots to cast your vote AGAINST the FTAA!
Jobs With Justice
Jobs With Justice working to stop the FTAA through its diverse network of community-based
organizations throughout the United States.
Alternative for the Americas
A 54-page document outlining a progressive vision of socially responsible and
environmentally sustainable international commerce.
The Development Group for Alternative Policies
Since 1976, the Development Group for Alternative Policies (The Development GAP)
has worked to ensure that the knowledge, priorities and efforts of the men and
women of the South inform decisions made in the North about their economies and
the environments in which they live.
Florida Fair Trade Coalition
The Florida Fair Trade Coalition is a network of labor unions, environmentalists,
church groups, and others working to mobilize civil society resistance to the
FTAA in Florida.
Institute for Central American Development Studies
Based in Costa Rica, ICADS is a center for study, research and analysis of Central
American issues in such areas as economic development, agriculture, women's issues
and the environment.
Institute for Policy Studies
Founded 37 years ago, IPS is the only multi-issue progressive think tank in Washington,
DC. Through books, articles, films, conferences and activist education, IPS offers
resources for progressive social change locally, nationally, and globally.
No al ALCA
Organizing against the FTAA in Latin America. (En Español)
Resource Center of the Americas
The Resource Center of the Americas provides information and develops programs
that demonstrate the connections between the peoples of Latin America, the Caribbean,
and the United States.
Center for Corporate Policy
The Center for Corporate Policy is a non-profit, non-partisan public interest
organization working to curb corporate abuses and make corporations publicly accountable.
Common Frontiers
Coalition of organizations based in Quebec working against the FTAA.
United for a Fair Economy
United for a Fair Economy has updated its popular workshop, “FTAA for Beginners.”
You can now download it free from — their website by clicking on “Economics
Education” in the left menu bar, then “Download UFE Workshop Kits”
on the right.
U.S. Trade Representative
The official government website of US trade negotiators who are working on the
FTAA.
Free Trade Area of the Americas
The official website of the proposed FTAA.
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