Media Newsroom Items

March 3, 2007

A CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE REGION:
CIVIL SOCIETY ADVANCES AGAINST THE SPP
Canadian, US and Mexican civil society networks succeeded in reaching the media with their message regarding the secret and illegitimate character of the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) Ministerial Meeting held in Ottawa February 23, 2007. They also forced big business to reveal its real agenda.
-Read the full document

April 4, 2006

URUGUAY AND ARGENTINA QUIT SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS
With a succession of recent electoral successes by centre-left candidates in key nations in Latin America, the U.S. 'free trade' agenda for the Americas is facing increased opposition at all levels. It is no coincidence that Washington has felt oblidged to 'show the flag' by stationing troops in countries like Paraguay and Ecuador. In the past the US provided 'training' for officers and other military personnel at the US-based School of the Americas, which allowed the US to maintain relations with key individuals (and to track their careers) once they had returned home to serve in their armed forces. The invitation to send officers to this 'school' was something that most Latin American nations felt that they couldn't refuse - that is until now.

At the end of March both Argentina and Uruguay announced that they would stop sending soldiers to the School of the Americas, joining Venezuela that had taken a similar decision in January of 2004.
-Read the Newswire story

November 5, 2005

PEOPLES SUMMIT FINAL DECLARATION
The III People's Summit wrapped up Saturday with the publication of the Final Declaration.
-Read the Final Declaration in English
-Read the Final Declaration en Francais

November 3 , 2005

PEOPLES SUMMIT BEGINS
Read first-hand accounts of what's going on in Mar del Plata, from Common Frontiers' Rick Arnold, who is in Argentina at the III Peoples' Summit
-Read Rick's latest update

October 28, 2005

MEDIA ADVISORY
Soccer star Maradona and Nobel Prize recipient Esquivel to march against ‘free trade' and Bush's presence in Argentina as part of the 3rd Peoples' Summit November 1-5:
“Another Americas is possible”
-View the Media Advisory

October 28, 2005

CALENDAR FOR SOME OF THE KEY EVENTS, roundtables, rallies taking place during the III Peoples Summit Nov. 1-5 in Mar del Plata, Argentina.
-View the Calendar of Events

October 19, 2005

UPDATED INFORMATION ON THE OVERALL PROGRAMME for the III Peoples' Summit released by the Argentine organizing committee. Also contains special information for the press."
-Read the translation of this article

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May 10, 2007
Media Advisory

The Security and Prosperity Partnership
promises poverty and anxiety

 

Thursday, May 10 2007, Common Frontiers will be part of a presentation to the Standing Committee on International Trade in Ottawa, addressing the concerns related to further integration of continental trade and the growing gap between rich and poor.


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- Read the full text of the presentation (in English and en francais)

 

Recent Media Releases

2007-02-21 - Ministers of fear and war descend on Ottawa taking North America in the wrong direction (in English) (en français) (en español)
2006-06-6 - Halt S.P.P. and Replace NAFTA

2006-04-18 - Letter to Pascal Lamy, Director General of the WTO

2006-03-27 - Harper must come clean about the security and prosperity partnership

2006-03-10 - Defending public control to the access and use of water

2006-03-6 - Allowing CEOs to set the foreign policy agegnda for North America endangers democracy in Canada (en francais)

2005-10-28 - Soccer star Maradona and Nobel Prize recipient Esquivel to march against ‘free trade' and Bush's presence in Argentina as part of the 3rd Peoples' Summit November 1-5:
“Another Americas is possible”

2005-06-27 - NAFTA-plus Ministerial: Civil society condemns closed-door talks in Ottawa

2005-03-22 - Bush-Martin-Fox Texas summit: Civil society condemns closed-door talks

 

Opinion Pieces

2006-03-5 - World Social Forum Builds Global Community

2005-03-25 - Martin-Bush-Fox Summit in Texas
THE “THREE AMIGOS” GET IT WRONG AGAIN

2004-12-15 - Op-ed on missed FTAA Deadline
FTAA misses New Year’s deadline; will it ever fly?

2004-11-21 - The Canada Trade Mission to Brazil: Partners in development?

2004-11-15 - Has Pierre Pettigrew Read the Romanow Report?

2004-11-01 - The stark reality of Mexican’s lives contrasts with the optimism of President Fox

 

Background Articles

Backgrounder on Common Frontiers

Top 10 Reasons to oppose ‘free trade'

Trading up to hemispheric well being:
Priorities for a Policy of Engagement in the Americas

Planning complete for the III Peoples Summit