"No More Foreign Military Bases"

Social Forum of the Americas

August 14, Asuncion, Paraguay

With the presence of more than 200 people representing numerous organizations, movements, continental and national networks, the second continental meeting of the campaign "America Latina, A Region of Peace: No More Foreign Military Bases" was held on August 14, 2010, in Asuncion, during the fourth Social Forum of the Americas.

Por Raúl Fernández

Uno: En el primer discurso sobre el Estado de la Unión en enero de 2010, el presidente Obama prometió doblar las exportaciones de Estados Unidos durante los próximos cinco años.

Raul Fernandez

One: In his first State of the Union message in January, 2010, President Obama vowed to double U.S. exports over the next 5 years.

Two: A few weeks later on March 11 he inaugurated by Executive Order the National Export Initiative (NEI) The NEI is designed “to enhance and coordinate Federal efforts to facilitate the creation of jobs in the United States through the promotion of exports and to ensure the effective use of Federal resources in support of these goals…” The NEI will receive funding for export promotion and will make exporting US-made products a government wide objective.

PUNTOS DE UNIDAD

Quién es: El grupo de trabajo en Estados Unidos de la Campaña Continental representa y coordina los esfuerzos de diversas organizaciones de los EEUU cuya misión incluye: el apoyo de los movimientos sociales en América Latina, el mantenimiento y promoción de la paz en todos los países del hemisferio, la defensa de las soberanías nacionales, la abolición de bases y enclaves militares extranjeros y la desmilitarización de la política de los Estados Unidos. Igualmente, nuestras organizaciones propenden por el fortalecimiento de la democracia, el mejoramiento de las condiciones de vida y de trabajo de la población y en particular, por mejores relaciones entre los Estados Unidos y Latinoamérica. Nuestras organizaciones tienen como principio buscar el cambio político a través de medios no violentos.

POINTS OF UNITY

Who: The Continental Campaign US Working Group represents and coordinates the efforts of diverse US-based organizations supportive of Latin American social movements; the maintenance and promotion of peace in all countries in the hemisphere; the defense of sovereignty; abolition of foreign military bases and enclaves and demilitarization of U.S. policy; the strengthening of democracy; the improvement of labor and living conditions; and better relations between the United States and Latin America. Our organizations embrace the pursuit of political change through nonviolent means.

Sábado, 17 de Julio de 2010

Escrito por Coalición no bases

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Los abajo firmantes manifestamos nuestro contundente rechazo a la decisión del gobierno de Laura Chinchilla de permitir entre el 1 de julio y hasta el 31 de diciembre de 2010 el ingreso de 7000 marines y 46 buques de guerra a Costa Rica bajo el argumento de combatir el narcotráfico. Esta decisión es una violación de la soberanía territorial y política del pueblo costarricense y una afrenta a la democracia latinoamericana.

Raul Fernandez

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The President of the United States has announced a push to sign “free trade” treaties, South Korea being first in line. Two things to note about the announcement: first, that Obama put it in the context of doubling American exports in the next five years; second, that he described it as the United States coming to the defense of South Korea from military threats from North Korea.

In the debate about what constitutes fact I am struck that comments by the Colombian Minister of Trade are so easily accepted as fact. The Minister claims that trade unionism is on the rise in Colombia. But the Colombian Trade Minister's claim that union rates have increased by 76% is simply not correct. Credible sources from the Colombian labour movement assert that union labour market share has decreased by 4.7%.

Fuente: NÚMERO: http://www.revistanumero.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&i...

RCN Radio: rcnradio.com

14 de abril de 2010.

Confieso que no terminó de salir de mi perplejidad y de mi asombro con cada nueva revelación que se hace de la investigación, ahora en manos de la Fiscalía General sobre el tema que el pueblo colombiano conoce de las chuzadas como el tema de las chuzadas telefónicas del DAS y que en realidad no es más que un acto de espionaje y de violación a la intimidad de la vida de las personas.

Statement by Senator Jorge Enrique Robledo

Bogotá, Colombia. April 28 2010

I express my strong opposition to the measure that legalizes the persecution of immigrants residing in the U.S. state of Arizona and allows undocumented immigrants to be imprisoned for up to six months, fined up to $2,000 and even deported from the United States. Under this law, those persecuted will be people who in the vast majority of cases have been forced to leave their countries of origin because of poverty. Even though in the United States there are more than 10 million undocumented immigrants, no administration has tried to resolve the situation seriously and democratically. They have not done so because illegal immigration allows employers to pay miserable wages and make great profits off the labor of millions of Hispanics, Asians, and Africans who must endure long work days and all kinds of persecution to earn less than the minimum wage.