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ALBA Casa Santa Fe

We extend our invitation to participate on Friday, as part of the VIERNAL, a meeting to encourage the creation and development of the first House ALBA in Santa Fe, framed in the proposed transformation and political and cultural integration Progne the ALBA (Bolivarian Alternative for the Peoples of Our America).

It will with the presence of Luis Bilbao, Program Coordinator for coordination and development of networks with social movements and cultural organizations), Nestor Jeifetz, the movements and co-occupants and tenants that prompted the creation of it in Santa Fe

Content general meeting:

Luis Bilbao try the overview of the ALBA and the purpose of the Houses of ALBA in Latin American countries. Nestor Jeifetz instead seek the experience of the House ALBA in Capital Federal, Buenos Aires. - Exchange of views and building strategies among those present.
We will meet this FRIDAY September 3 to 19 hours in our Faculty octagon.

What is ALBA?

ALBA is a proposed integration of all peoples, countries, governments, states and social movements live, act and influence in the Americas. This proposal has been prepared in recent years, from the choice of many progressive governments to adopt policies that passed anti-neoliberal and anti-imperialist and therefore opposed the proposal of the United States Government wanted to impose agreements FTAA (Free Trade Area of \u200b\u200bthe Americas) since the signing in 1995 of an agreement between the U.S. government and various neoliberal governments that dominated the political situation in the continent.

ALBA At first the proposal was seen only as a government project, to promote trade and economic integration among Latin American countries and in opposition to the FTAA agreement.

Later, thanks to popular mobilization and struggle that the governments of Cuba, Venezuela, Brazil, Bolivia, gave the proposal that the FTAA was defeated, and a continental trade agreements even, strengthened other proposals such as MERCOSUR, the Andean Pact and the treaty of commerce of the towns TCP.

The Presidents of the governments of Venezuela, Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, Bolivia, and formally joined ALBA. Representatives from various Caribbean governments are sympathetic to the proposal but have not yet formally accepted. Social movements also involved in virtually all continental articulation networks such as peasants, popular movements, indigenous peoples, Afro-descendant movements, pastoral, social, Jubilee South against external debt, campaign against the FTAA, student movements and youth movements women, among others.

guiding principles for accession to ALBA:

The agreements and firmados entre gobiernos y representantes de los Estados, estaban presentes los siguientes principios fundamentales:

1. El derecho y respeto a la autodeterminación de los pueblos.
2. El espíritu de complementariedad económica entre los pueblos y países.
3. El comercio justo entre las naciones.
4. La cooperación.
5. La lucha contra la pobreza
6. El derecho a la preservación de la identidad cultural de cada pueblo.
7. La integración energética
8. La defensa de la cultura de los pueblos latinoamericanos y caribeños.
9. Fomento y defensa de la cultura de los pueblos nativos e indígenas.

A partir the inclusion of representatives of social movements as part of the construction process of ALBA, they had increased the need to defend the following principles:

10. Practice permanent solidarity between all peoples of the continent.
11. Technological and productive integration
12. Combating social exclusion.
13. Human rights advocacy in the broadest sense: social, economic and cultural and labor.
14. Defending the rights of women.
15. Defense of food sovereignty.
16. Protection and preservation of the environment
17. Pluriculturidad defense of our people, valuing the contributions of native cultures, Afro-descendants and indigenous self-determination.