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Archives Contents: Latino Summit | Social Forum of the Americas | No to CAFTA
Archived Highlights
Dialogue on Transnational Activism--"Latin
American Migrants: Civic and Political Participation in a Binational
Context." October 26-27, 2007; Chicago, IL
A roundtable event sponsored by the Mexico Institute of the Wilson Center
for International Scholars.To view report and commissioned papers, and
to listen to audio recordings from the event, click here.
Latino and Caribbean Immigrant Community Summit
To view photos click here.
Latino Immigrant Leaders Meet with Presidential Advisors to Unveil a 4-Point Plan for Immigration Reform and Launch a National Civic Campaign : Latino immigrant leaders representing 30 grassroots organizations from across the nation met with high ranking Presidential advisors today at the White House to urge the Bush Administration to act on his promise of immgration reorm.
Latino
Immigrant Leaders Go to Washington
February 10, 2004: Over 60 immigrant leaders representing communities
from across the country came together in an unprecedented summit to
call on the president and congress to take immediate steps toward comprehensive
immigration reform.
Read
the Joint
Declaration on Immigration
Reform.
To read more about the
February meeting click here
To read more about the National Immigration Community
Summit process visit
What's
New at the Americas Program "A New World of Ideas, Analysis and
Policy Options"http://www.americaspolicy.org/
This year enlaces America be sending a delegation of 12 immigrant leaders to participate and present in the first Social Forum of the Americas in Quito, Ecuador, this July 25-30th, 2004.
This delegation represents a strong and energetic group of Latin American immigrant leaders whose commitment to their communities extends beyond direct service, as they work to build strategic alliances and influence the development of policies that improve the social and economic well-being of their communities both here in the United States and in their countries of origin.
To coverage of the enlaces america delegation at the
social forum, please click on the articles below.
Migraciones
en las Américas
by Sanna Stockstrom y Rocío Lapitz
Migrantes en el
desorden global
by Luiz Bassegio
To read more vist 1st
Social Forum of the Americas, Another America is Possible!
Migratory Patterns in the Hemisphere (of the Americas)
Poverty, Migration, Remittances, and Development
Latin American Migrants and Global Citizenship Practices
Click here
for workshop descriptions .
Immigrants Urge Congress to Say No to CAFTA
"...Our opposition to CAFTA is not ideological. As immigrants, we have a deep understanding of the potential benefits of improved transnational cooperation. We would welcome an agreement that would increase economic opportunity, protect our shared environment, guarantee workers’ rights and acknowledge the role of human mobility in deepening the already profound ties between our countries. However, the CAFTA agreement falls far short of that vision..."
Immigrant organizations from across the country are coming together to oppose the ratification of CAFTA
Please click here to access a CAFTA fact sheet recently
released by the Washington Office on Latin America, Central
American Development: Trade Liberalization in the 1990's.
Click here for an introduction to this series of Fact Sheets: http://www.wola.org/economic/cafta.htm