While one Latin American government after the other turns its back on failed neoliberal policies, the EU hopes to use the 4th EU-Latin America/Caribbean Summit in Vienna this week to steamroll ahead with talks on a whole range of new 'free trade' agreements. The gathering of large corporations from both regions at a Business Summit on May 12th aims to increase the pressure on those governments who question the EU's agenda.
See also "A critique of the EU-Latin America Business Summit in Vienna": http://www.corporateeurope.org/viennabusinesssummit.pdf
Bolivia and other progressive Latin American governments played a crucial role during the Fourth World Water Forum in Mexico City (March 16-22 2006), by insisting that water must be excluded from trade agreements and that governments must recognise and implement the human right to water. Together with a very large anti-privatisation demonstration and the successful counter-summit that happened in parallel to the World Water Forum, this strong challenge to neoliberal water policies inside the Forum signals the beginning of a new and exciting phase in the international water debate.
See also "The Tide Turns - But Pro-Privatisation Currents Remain Strong": http://www.corporateeurope.org/water/mexicocity.htm
A shorter version of the article is online on the website of The Porcupine (a new progressive online magazine): http://www.theporcupine.org/?itemid=30#more
Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO), is a European-based research and campaign group targeting the threats to democracy, equity, social justice and the environment posed by the economic and political power of corporations and their lobby groups.
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1052 AK Amsterdam
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tel: +31-20-612-7023
e-mail: ceo@corporateeurope.org
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http://www.waterjustice.org
http://www.gatswatch.org
Please Also See:
THE WEALTH UNDERGROUND: BOLIVIAN GAS IN STATE AND CORPORATE HANDS http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/282/1/
BOLIVIA’S GAS NATIONALIZATION: A SOUTH AMERICAN AFFAIR
http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/281/1/
'Corporism': The Systemic Disease that Destroys Civilization, by Ken Reiner http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout5.php&id=885&blz=1
See also "A critique of the EU-Latin America Business Summit in Vienna": http://www.corporateeurope.org/viennabusinesssummit.pdf
Bolivia and other progressive Latin American governments played a crucial role during the Fourth World Water Forum in Mexico City (March 16-22 2006), by insisting that water must be excluded from trade agreements and that governments must recognise and implement the human right to water. Together with a very large anti-privatisation demonstration and the successful counter-summit that happened in parallel to the World Water Forum, this strong challenge to neoliberal water policies inside the Forum signals the beginning of a new and exciting phase in the international water debate.
See also "The Tide Turns - But Pro-Privatisation Currents Remain Strong": http://www.corporateeurope.org/water/mexicocity.htm
A shorter version of the article is online on the website of The Porcupine (a new progressive online magazine): http://www.theporcupine.org/?itemid=30#more
Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO), is a European-based research and campaign group targeting the threats to democracy, equity, social justice and the environment posed by the economic and political power of corporations and their lobby groups.
Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO)
De Wittenstraat 25
1052 AK Amsterdam
Netherlands
tel: +31-20-612-7023
e-mail: ceo@corporateeurope.org
http://www.corporateeurope.org
http://www.eulobbytours.org
http://www.waterjustice.org
http://www.gatswatch.org
Please Also See:
THE WEALTH UNDERGROUND: BOLIVIAN GAS IN STATE AND CORPORATE HANDS http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/282/1/
BOLIVIA’S GAS NATIONALIZATION: A SOUTH AMERICAN AFFAIR
http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/281/1/
'Corporism': The Systemic Disease that Destroys Civilization, by Ken Reiner http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout5.php&id=885&blz=1