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Latin American Briefs
The People’s Health Movement (PHM) welcomes you to this
new section were we will let you know about some activities that took place
in Latin America. Since it is the first time, we will inform of some events
of the past few years:
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Porto
Alegre: World Social Forum 2002
In a port of struggle and hope, let's globalize the struggle, let's
globalize hope!
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The World Social Forum 2002 was held between January 31
and February 5, 2002 in the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre.
We attended several important meetings in which
indigenous peoples were able to assert their presence; we held a Popular
Tribunal against Foreign Debt, and covered issues related to Medicines,
Health and AIDS.
Days earlier the 1st International Forum for the
Defense of the Health of Peoples was held, convened by the Latin American
Social Medicine Association; it proposed that Health as a Human Right be
incorporated into the World Social Forum 2003 and Rio + 10 to be held in
Africa this year. It was also proposed to call a 2nd International Forum in
the Defense of the Right to Health of Peoples in January 2003, and a World
Health Forum in 2004. |
Other upcoming events will discuss why social health
policies of governments are not focused on the health of people. A focus on
the Health of Ecosystems should be incorporated in discussions because it
emphasizes the disregard imposed on this by neoliberalism, which tends to
reduce health to the treatment of disease. We need to promote meetings
around Health for People that also focus on ecology, human rights and the
rights of Indigenous peoples, including health and traditional medicine.
This meeting was a historical opportunity to promote the
Right to Health and the Life of the Peoples of the World. It is noteworthy
to mention the contrast between the values of the World Social Forum and
those of neoliberalism: solidarity instead of individualism; non-violence
without tolerance for injustice; prioritizing the welfare of all above the
importance of the market; plurality of values instead of the expansion of
mercantilism; prioritization of the rights of the poor above the interests
of the rich.
Testimonies in the World Social Forum 2002
One of the most exciting moments was when Rigoberta
Menchú and Hugo Blanco addressed the public in the auditorium of the
Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul.
Hugo Blanco, rural leader from Peru explained the
struggle of the campesinos for the recovery of their culture and land in his
country. "There is no need “to teach” the campesinos to govern !
they already know how to govern!. The campesinos fight for an agrarian
reform. They fight against the pollution of rivers and their land. They
block highways and protest. The indigenous struggle in Peru is part of the
struggle that indigenous people are carrying out in other parts of the
continent."
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Rigoberta Menchú pointed out that the indigenous people
have a history of dignity and power and that they are the only ones fighting
to improve the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. "The indigenous
people are inside the countries that occupy us. We don't have our own
government nor our own economy, nor are we part of the United Nations. This
social struggle of the indigenous people is important. What is urgent in
this world is to create a vision that can be shared by a lot of people that
are not here in this World Social Forum." |
II Forum Two Giants of History: Che Guevara - Espejo
I Latin American Meeting for the Health of the People.
Cuenca - Ecuador 14/10/2002
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On October 14th, 2002 the II Forum: “Two Giants of
History” and the “1st Latin American Meeting for the Health of the
People” were inaugurated in the city of Cuenca, Ecuador. They were
organised by the International People’s Health Council (IPHC) South
America; Lecture on Che Guevara - Espejo and the Faculty of Medicine of the
University of Cuenca.
Among the participants were Dra. Aleida Guevara Marcha,
daughter of Comandante Che Guevara, Dr. Julio Monsalvo, prominent
Epistemologist of Argentina, Dra. María Hamlín Zúñiga Global Coordinator
of IPHC, and other personalities of Cuba, Nicaragua, Colombia, El Salvador
that fight for a more humane world. |
The objectives of the Forum were:
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To form a wide network of democratic organizations in
the struggle for health and life for the people.
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To rescue alternative experiences in order to
strengthen a new vision of health and medical practice.
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To look for an abundant confluence of numerous
cultural expressions to strengthen our identity.
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To expose the real protagonists of terrorism and
violence, institutionalised in today’s world.
The main topics of the Forum included: Health and
World Revolution, Use and Abuse of Power and their Repercussions in Health
and Life of the People, the Health of the People in the New Millennium,
Advanced Technologies, Health and Market / Health and Social Crisis,
Ideology and Change: Che’s Lessons, Experiences in the Construction of
Socialism.
More than 1000 people among students, workers,
intellectuals, doctors, nurses and indigenous peoples filled the Auditorium
of the University Carlos Cueva for the event, that was to become a place of
reflection and rescue of the humanistic thoughts of two outstanding Doctors
and Revolutionaries of America: Ernesto Guevara, Cuban-Argentinean and
Eugenio of Santa Cruz y Espejo, Ecuadorian.
During her brief presentation, Dra. Aleida Guevara,
daughter of Comandante Che Guevara, explained that her father lives in the
heart of every youngster that is aware of the new role of the Latin American
man. "My father is not only studied and admired in America, but in
other continents they also feel the power of his ideals and struggle, for
that reason he has become universally known for his love, kindness, tenacity
and discipline” she affirmed. Che lives and will live in the struggle for
an equal, democratic and fair world. |
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Dr. Julio Monsalvo, epistemologist of Argentina lectured
on the topic WORLD REVOLUTION IN PROGRESS: CONTRIBUTION OF PRIMARY HEALTH
CARE. He pointed out that a World Revolution was visible in all continents,
in many diverse scenarios. It is in Chiapas, in the big protests against
globalization in Seattle, in Davos, in Millau, in Niza, in the Health
Assembly of the People in Bangladesh, in the World Social Forums “ Another
World is Possible” in Porto Alegre, in initiatives such as Jubilee 2000
and many others. Thousands mobilised besides the millions of people that
from their local experience and knowledge, construct proposals.
As examples of the protagonists of this revolution he
referred to the groups of rural women that in solidarity accompany needy
families; to those women that possess the knowledge of herbs and multiply
their knowledge to their families and communities; to the rural communities
and indigenous peoples that conserve their knowledge and technologies to
harvest, respecting biodiversity; to young people from cities and small
towns who convoke people’s assemblies and pave the way to participatory
democracy.
He affirmed that the main characters of this World
Revolution don't accept injustices generated by the capitalist system which
exploits, expropriates and excludes. Nor does this revolution accept the
ecological injustices that the capitalist system brings and threatens the
continuity of life, taking us recklessly into extinction.
Health workers, militants of life, must keep themselves
informed and alert of the global news in order to continue this
revolutionary struggle so life can continue in a healthy, solidary and
sustainable form.
Primary Health Care fundamental principles established in
the Alma Ata’s Declaration are still fully valid. These principles have
been reaffirmed and transformed into a true proposal of strategies in The
People’s Charter of Health, approved in the Assembly of Bangladesh in
December 2002.
Health workers at this moment have a beautiful
opportunity to become revolutionaries of life.
"Primary Health Care of the Ecosystems” is
the proposal to consolidate this Revolution. The proposal in this World
Revolution is to work hard from our health worker positions for Primary
Health Care of the Ecosystems.
For example: if we struggle for a healthy ecosystem, we
propose a production of food to feed and not to get rich. Productions of
ecological healthy food and not food loaded with pesticides and genetically
modified organisms. It’s to feel Nature again, it’s to defend all forms
of life.
In the Forum we became aware of everyday efforts of
organizations and people that struggle and organise themselves for health.
They evidenced the conquests that have been obtained through unimaginable
mechanisms in a society that promotes confrontation and rivalry.
Espejo and Che:
humanist thought
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Both Eugenio Espejo and Che Guevara are an inspiration
source, this meeting of humanism and resistance has been dedicated to them.
Both of them used their thoughts and their conscience as instruments to
transform the socio-economic reality of the Latin American people. Both of
them were revolutionary doctors marked by a tremendous sensibility. They
didn't have material goods, they didn't amass a fortune. They died poor and
sick, illuminated by their ideas.
They are always present and are militant in all types of
struggle against the empire, against the Monetary Fund, against the corrupt
ones that put up auction our sovereignty and dignity. They are also present
in the daily struggle of doctors and health workers concerned for the
collective well being.
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Espejo and Che were uncompromising defenders of Public
Health, of the validity of Social Medicine. Espejos’ intimate concern was
the topic of vaccines, the importance of hygiene, the conservation of the
environment, the respect of nature, the need of absolute independence.
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Che
was concerned about freedom and with it, the building of a new country in
which health would be a right guaranteed by the state, the same as education,
entertainment, employment, housing and with this the well-being, creativity
and prosperity. They constitute examples of struggle and perseverance.
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Activities in Porto Alegre, Brazil 2003
In November 2002 the PHM and the IPHC were asked to be co-sponsors
of the II Forum for Health along with the Latin American Association of
Social Medicine, - ALAMES, the International Association of Health Policy-IAHP
of which ALAMES is the Latin American Associate, the Brazilian Center for
Health Studies - CEBES, the Municipal Health Secretariat of Port Alegre, the
Municipal government of Porto Alegre, and the Brazilian Network for
Cooperation in Emergencies - RBCE. This invitation provided a unique
opportunity to promote the PHM, so we accepted the challenge
The initial objective was to exchange international
experience and make alliance to demand governments Health for All Now!
II Forum for the defense of People's Health
More than 288 participants from organizations, social
movements, health workers from all over the world register in the Forum for
the Defense of People’s Health.
From the first moment of the Forum the PHM was visible in
the golden tee shirts with the symbol of the PHM on the front and on the
back, in three languages, the message of Health for All Now!
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At the opening ceremony Hugo Icú and María Hamlin
Zuniga represented the PHM and the IPHC respectively as co-sponsors of the
event. Both emphasized the importance of continuing the strategy of Primary
Health Care in order to reduce the inequity, exclusion, marginalization, and
injustices in the access to health and health care. They also stressed the
need to join forces to visualize health in the broadest terms so as to bring
about social and economic development.
The representation of India and the Asian Social Forum
was important in the initial presentation, in order to demonstrate the
global experience of the movement and the common problems that unite us
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During the Health Forum there were presentations of
representatives from various countries concerning the local and national
health conditions and the consequences of health care reform. There were
also opportunities for group work and further sharing of experiences.
The Million Signature Campaign in the Spanish language
version demanding all states Health for All Now was launched on the final
day of the Forum for the Health of the People. This will be a major activity
for awareness raising in Latin America during the 25th Anniversary year of
Alma Ata. This signature campaign, can be endorse by ordinary people from
various walks of life and organizations, institutions, peoples associations
and others working for a just world. You can endorse it in internet or with
representatives of IPHC and PHM.
See www.themillionsignaturecampaign.org |
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Declaration
of the International Forum for the Defense of People's Health
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Health is a right in and of itself, and
not a means to promote so-called human capital. Nor can it be seen as
merchandise, but rather a public good.
Health is an integral process that includes everything from decent
living conditions, healthy employment with adequate conditions, access
to basic services such as clean water, education to promote
citizenship, adequate food, to a healthy environment free from
violence, and accessible quality health care at all levels.
Health workers play a fundamental role in facilitating the right to
health and access to adequate services. Thus, it is important that
they have adequate working conditions.
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We
denounce the serious and sustained deterioration of living, health and
working conditions of the majority of countries and peoples. This
is found particularly in poor countries, but also in some other countries
the social right to health is being lost (Great Britain, Germany, etc.).
This
deterioration originates in the concept that health and life are merchandise
and sources of wealth and speculation, and in the prevailing model of care
that is extremely costly and promotes dependency.
Migration
from the countryside to the city and from poor countries to less poor
countries is a daily component of the lives of our peoples, and in many
places, it is one of the main sources of income for families and for
countries through family remittances (It is the primary source in Ecuador,
El Salvador, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, etc.). This has resulted in
broken families and the loss of labor, social and citizen rights by those
who emigrate and become outcasts in the new countries.
This
phenomenon is used to justify and legitimize the privatization of services,
along with, among others, arguments about the inefficiency of public
administration, limited public resources and weaknesses in the systems
themselves.
The neoliberal so-called “reforms”
and “modernization” of the health sector - which are only a whitewash
for privatization - deepen inequality and lack of access. There
are several kinds of privatization; one is giving services to private
providers and insurance companies, and the other is imposing a commercial
mentality in the public sector. However,
democratic methods are being experimented in some places, such as Brazil, to
seek ways to improve services, participation and citizen control; these have
had some successes as well as difficulties.
We
must break the neoliberal dogmas that say, for example: provision
of services cannot be separated from the financing of those services, nor
can one separate the different levels of care.
The
IMF, World Bank and regional banks like IDB impose these concepts as
conditions for countries to access their services. This
generates inequality, less access and worsened living and health conditions.
At the
same time, we should note the lack of belligerence on the part of the WHO to
safeguard the health of peoples and its subordination to these conditions,
the WTO and transnational corporations.
We support
decentralization as a means to deepen and develop democracy, but also
acknowledge that it is not sufficient in and of itself. It must take place
in the framework of national, state and local public systems, because these
local systems cannot take over the responsibility of national governments.
Incomplete
decentralization creates obstacles to access and increased inequity.
The wars promoted
against Iraq by the government of the United States and the United Kingdom,
or that of the Israeli government, its occupation, systematic destruction
and attempt to eradicate the idea of nation and nationality of the
Palestinian people, threaten the right to life and health of these peoples
and of the world.
The
same is true of the coup attempts and efforts to de-legitimize the legal
government in Venezuela, and the ongoing war in Colombia. Both
types of conflict seek to legitimize a hegemony that threatens the autonomy
and self-determination of peoples, all in order to defend the “freedom”
of financial capital.
We
underscore the situation in Argentina, where the application of the IMF
dictates has already led to the impoverishment and epidemic spread of
hunger. But,
we also want to note that the levels of social and popular resistance have
made it possible to limit the implementation of IMF policies.
We salute the enormous and
ongoing social and popular demonstrations against the war in Iraq, the war
against the Palestinian people, the resistance to privatization of services,
the FTAA, the WTO and its dictates and the “free” trade agreements. And we make a call to
sustain and multiply these actions.
The II International
Forum for the Defense of Peoples Rights has been one more step in the
process to articulate resistance, common positions, and unification of
efforts to change these concepts and promote actions with new forms of
struggle and relations with governments, institutions and civil society
organizations. It has allowed us to renew our energy and commitment. A campaign has been launched
here seeking A MILLION SIGNATURES FOR HEALTH NOW, to demand
fulfillment by governments and the WHO of the Alma Ata Declaration 25 years
ago, by means of which they committed to provide Health for All in the year
2000.
To
sign, visit the site http://www.themillionsignaturecampaign.org
Due to all of the above,
we believe it is absolutely necessary to develop a process to build
proposals and exchanges that come from the communities and grassroots
organizations, move to the municipal, state, national and international
levels, and conclude in the II Assembly and I World Forum for
Peoples Health in July 2004, that will allow for drawing
conclusions, building new proposals and allowing for concrete joint actions
at all levels. We
therefore call on all organizations, individuals and institutions who are
committed to health and welfare to join this effort, organize your own
activities, spread the word, join efforts and make real our dream of HEALTH
FOR ALL NOW.
Information and adhesion to the Million Signatures
Campaign and the Convocatory for 2004.
info@iphcglobal.org
alames@movinet.com.uy
armandon@portoweb.com.br
secretariat@phmovement.org
III World Social Forum 2003
During the period of January 17th - 29th, 19 people
representing organizations member of the People’s Health Movement (PHM)
participated in activities related to the III World Social Forum (WSF). The
delegation was formed by representatives of Kenia, India, Netherlands,
Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Bolivia, Argentina y Brazil.
We had the opportunity to distribute massively the
following documents at the WSF: The People’s Charter for Health in English,
Spanish and Portuguese copies, Declaration and the announcement of the
Million Signature Campaign, Voices of the Unheard and The Struggle for
Health: Problems and Solutions, Reflections from the South.
During the World Social Forum, PHM and IPHC carried out three workshops,
which were translated into English, Spanish and Portuguese.
The Neoliberal Reform in the Health Sector: alternatives and new models of
attention presented by Hugo Icú, Carlos Lix, and
Julio Monsalvo with participants from Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Ecuador,
Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Germany, Kenya and The
Netherlands.
They explained the context in which health sector reforms
are being implemented under neoliberal guidelines. Some of the consequences
for the public that were mentioned were: less access to medical services,
privatization of health services and charging in the public services.
The official health care model doesn’t contemplate
cultural diversity, it doesn’t recognize traditional medicine, the
programs do not take into account the conditions of rural and indigenous
sectors. A proposed alternative health care model is one that brings
together elements of ancestral and popular knowledge, with an integral focus.
A model based on the Mayan Indigenous Medicine was proposed with
reinforcement on primary health care.
Julio Monsalvo presented the experience of a community
health program in northeastern Argentina that is synthesized in the sharing
of knowledge in a community health program which is guided by the slogan: We
all know, we don't depend. It is based on the conception that communities
and personnel within the health system can develop a comprehensive health
care proposal by sharing their knowledge, skills and experiences.
The main conclusions were:
Confrontation between the different models of health care and the
possibility of integrating different practices. The need to recover and give
value to cultural biodiversity that means struggling against neoliberalism.
The need to monitor neoliberal reforms in health and work against those
which violate the right to health. Neoliberalism means death to biodiversity
and brings about the collapse of life.
The second workshop was on PRIVATIZATION AND
LIBERALIZATION OF HEALTH SERVICES AND PUBLIC PRIVATE INITIATIVES (PPI) which
was presented by Marjan Stoffers, John Kinuthia, Margarita Posada with
participants from Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, Guatemala, El Salvador,
Nicaragua, Paraguay, Germany, Kenya, Canada, South Korea, Italy, The
Netherlands and USA.
The presentations included information about:
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The neoliberal paradigms and their applications in
the health care field
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The role of the WTO and trade agreements that
protect Companies and reinforce the privatization of health services.
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The role of the World Bank, the United Nations and
the WHO and how they are favoring transnational companies by becoming
partners of this great neoliberal corporation.
An analysis on the PPI (Public-Private Initiatives) was
carried out. The participants considered that these initiative were more
expensive, have no sense of responsibility and are destroying the public
health system. With these initiatives industries are simply seeking to
improve their image, for example by donating medicines for HIV/AIDS. Another
problem is that there is an unequal competition between transnational
companies and local ones, which are going bankrupt.
A series of doubts arose in relation to the PPI, their
connection with corruption and the privatization processes, as well as
alternatives to confront this situation and the role of social movements and
the Church.
The experience with the PPI in Kenya. Here intellectual
property rights and license for production of medicine have turned
medications inaccessible, despite actions carried out to obtain permits to
produce medicines. The huge transnational companies such as Glaxo provide
free medicine to public hospitals with the purpose of eliminating local
competition, advertising as charity and a positive image, delivering a
message of supposed social accountability.
The process in El Salvador denominated ANSAL (analysis of
the health sector) financed by the WB and IMF was explained. Health services
have been privatized, therefore, people have lost their rights and
guarantees. Experiences of popular actions were narrated in defense of
health: strikes, closings of highways, etc. where alliances and
articulations with diverse sectors play an important role.
It was concluded that it was essential to sensitize the
grassroots about the concept of Health as a Human Right. To formulate a call
to collective action, to utilize legal instruments to defend the right to
health valuing and respecting popular initiatives without losing sight of
the common objective.
The third workshop on THE PEOPLE’S HEALTH ASSEMBLY,
THE PEOPLE’S HEALTH MOVEMENT AND THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ALMA ATA
DECLARATION was presented by María Hamlin Zúniga, Hugo Icú, Arturo
Quizphe, and Amit Sengupta with participants from Brazil, Argentina, Chile,
Ecuador, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Uruguay, Mexico,
Sweden, Germany, Kenya, Canada, South Korea, Italy, The Netherlands India,
France, and USA.
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The objectives and general aspects of the process carried
out by IPHC and the People’s Health Movement (PHM) were identified. They
informed of the actions developed in Central America to defend the right of
the people to health and the demand of Health For All!.
In the working groups there was an exchange of
experiences and the preparation process of the 1st World Assembly for the
Health of the People was explained. At the same time the doubts on the
process were clarified.
Videos of the 1st World Assembly of the Health of the
People and the Palestinian situation were shown. |
The 2003 World Social Forum in numbers
100,000 participants, such as delegates, observers, press,
professionals and activists from all over the world. The organization
recorded a total of 20.763 delegates, representing 717 organizations
from 156 countries.
4.094 journalists from 1.423 different media networks from 51
countries registered to cover the event. Out of these, 3.262 were
from press, radio or TV networks and 832 were free-lance journalists.
1.286 workshops were held and bout 650 volunteers worked on
the 2003 WSF. The Youth Camp sheltered around 25 thousand people,
from which more than 19 thousand registered as representatives from 700
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Lula in the Forum: "I still dream in building a fair and solidary
society"
One of the most important moments in the World Social
Forum was when Brazilian president Lula spoke before more than 100.000
people that filled the Amphitheater Pôr-do-Sol, to explain his priorities
and reasons to attend the other forum, the one in Davos. Some extracts of
his speech were:
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"I still dream of the possibility of carrying out a
health policy where no one who is poor dies at the hospital’s doors due to
lack of medical care or lack of assistance. I continue dreaming in building
a fair, solidary, fraternal society, where wealth produced in the country is
distributed more evenly among all the children of this country. "
"I think that other presidents should go to the
Social Forum to hear what people think, what people want and how people want
things to happen."
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"I want to say in Davos that it is not possible to
continue with an economic order where few can eat five times a day and many
spend five days without eating in this planet Earth. To tell them that a new
world economic order is necessary and that the results of wealth should be
distributed in a more fair way so poor countries have the opportunity to be
less poor.”
"During 500 years our country has been looking
towards Europe, it is time to look towards Africa and South America, it’s
time to establish new associations so we can be more independent, to
strengthen the Mercosur and establish a political force to negotiate."
"the World Social Forum is the biggest political
event carried out in contemporary history, and I don't have any doubt that
it will contribute in a decisive way to change humanity's history."
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Social Movements of the WSF 2003 continue Campaign Against War
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Organizations and social movements committed themselves
to continue the campaign against the United States War against the People of
Iraq. They proposed to carry out vigils in front of American consulate or
embassy, to begin a boycott campaign against products of American
transnational companies that are installed in our countries, especially gas
stations of American companies, like Texaco, Esso, etc.
Also to begin a general campaign in schools, so children
write letters to Iraqi children in solidarity, and to children in the United
States, so they urge the Bush administration to not go to war. As well as
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Key points of the Final Declaration of the III World Social
Forum
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The government of the United States in his
determination to launch a war against Iraq is a serious threat to all of
us and is a dramatic manifestation of the existing link between militarism
and economic dominance.
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We are opposed to the use of biodiversity, air, water,
forests, land and sea as commercial goods and that these are set for sale,
threatening our future
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The social movements in the whole world fight against
neoliberal globalization, war, racism, caste, poverty, patriarchy and all
form of discrimination and exclusion, for social justice, for civil rights,
participatory democracy, universal rights and the right of people to
decide its own future.
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The social movements are against War, military and
economic actions designed to impose the neoliberal model and undermine
sovereignty and peace of the people in the world.
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We call upon all social movements and progressive
groups to support, participate and organize protests in the entire world
against that war on February 15.
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The World Trade Organization (WTO), the Free Trade
Agreement of America (FTAA) and the proliferation of regional and
bilateral agreements, such as the Agreement for Growth and Trade in Africa
(AGOA) and free trade agreements proposed for Central America, are used by
transnational corporations to promote their interests, dominate our
economies and impose a development model that impoverishes our societies.
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The campaigns of this year against the WTO, FTAA and
free trade agreements will grow in magnitude and repercussion.
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We support the movement in the world that struggles for
food sovereignty and against the neo-liberal models in agriculture, as
well as in the production and distribution of food. We will organize
massive protests in the entire world during the celebration of the V
ministerial meeting of the WTO that will take place in Cancun, Mexico, in
September of 2003, as well as during the celebration of the ministerial
meeting of the FTAA in Miami, United States in October of this year,
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The complete and unconditional cancellation of the debt
of the Third World is a first requirement to fulfill the most elementary
human rights. We will support any indebted country that wants to stop
paying their foreign debt and those who refuse to apply structural
adjustment programs imposed by the IMF. We will organize campaigns and
important mobilizations in 2003: at G8 (Evian, June), WTO (Cancun,
September) and during the annual meeting of the IMF and World Bank
(Washington, September).
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We convoke all social movements and progressive groups
to be part of this mobilization to denounce the illegitimacy and reject
the G8 policy intended to be debated in Evian, France, between June 1 - 3,
2003.
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We are part of the actions that women’s movements
promote on March 8, international day of struggle against violence,
patriarchy and for social and political equality.
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We call all progressive groups and organizations in the
world to express solidarity with people in Palestine, Venezuela, Bolivia
and others that are suffering a serious crisis at this moment.
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We feel the need to build a network of movements to
give flexible and arguable answers and be comprehensive and transparent at
the same time, its responsibility will be to enrich this process,
encourage it, promote its diversity and make the necessary coordination.
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To achieve these objectives we propose to form a
contact group to serve as a resource and instrument for our international
mobilizations including preparation of meeting, promotion of debate and
democracy through a web site and electronic mail. It is necessary to
develop, a wide debate in the heart of the organizations, campaigns and
networks to articulate the proposals and achieve a more representative and
permanent structure.
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