Caribbean

Trade

Pan-Caribbean

ATTAC

www.attac.org

ATTAC (Association for the Taxation of financial Transactions for the Aid of Citizens) is an international network of independent national and local groups in 33 countries. It promotes the idea of an international tax on currency speculation (the Tobin Tax) and campaigns to outlaw tax havens, replace pension funds with state pensions, cancel Third World debt, reform or abolish the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and, more generally, recapture the democratic space that has been lost to the financial world. ATTAC is independent from all political parties, and brings together labour unions, associations, MPs, academics and citizens from all walks of life, in self-education and peaceful action.

Voluntary help needed: See local links on ATTAC website

Public Services International (PSI)

c/o Reece Road, Britton's Hill, St Michael, Barbados
Tel/Fax: (246) 429.61.63
psicaribbean@sunbeach.net OR sandram@earthling.net

www.world-psi.org/psi.nsf

PSI unites public sector workers in more than 600 trade unions in over 140 countries. Twenty million women and men in a variety of public service jobs are members of PSI.
For nearly 100 years, PSI has fought for public services through its activities and campaigns, its regional structure , its association with other international organisations and its work on priority issues. PSI is an officially recognised non-government organisation - NGO - for the public sector within the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and has accreditation with UNESCO, ECOSOC and UNCTAD.

Voluntary help needed: see website

Via Campesina

Secretaría Operativa, Operative Secretariat Tegucigalpa, Apdo. Postal 3628MDC, Honduras, C.A.
Tel: + 504-2394679
Fax: + 504-2359915
viacam@gbm.hn

www.viacampesina.org

Via Campesina is an international movement that coordinates peasant organizations of small and middle-scale producers, agricultural workers, rural women, and indigenous communities from Asia, Africa, America, and Europe. It is an autonomous, pluralistic movement, independent from all political, economic, or other denomination. It is integrated by national and regional organizations whose autonomy is respected.

Voluntary help needed: see Via Campesina website

Specific countries

Curacao

Amigu di Tera

PO Box 4688, Willemstad, Curaçao
Tel: 5999 4656757 or 7373965
Fax: 5999 4656757 or 7373965
narain@interneeds.net

www.amiguditera.com

Amigu di Tera was founded in 1989. The group's 530 members are found on two Caribbean islands, Curaçao and Bonaire, that form part of the Netherlands Antilles. Our newsletter in both the local language, Papiamentu, and Dutch is issued on an occasional basis. Amigu di Tera is well known on the islands and appears regularly in the press. In Bonaire, nature conservation is the main focus, while on the more industrialised Curaçao the focus is on the oil refinery, energy and land use policies. Based on the report "Sustainable Curaçao," a grassroots process was recently begun in local communities to improve the quality of life and enhance awareness of sustainability. Self help is a major underlying theme of this process. For people of the Netherlands Antilles, sustainability also means the struggle for self identity

Voluntary help needed: see website

Grenada

Friends of the Earth (FoE Grenada)

PO Box 521, Lucas Street, Queen’s Park, St. George's, Grenada, West Indies
Tel: 1 473 440 7192
Fax: 1 473 440 7192
foegda@caribsurf.com

[no web address]

FoE Grenada has two English-language publications, The Environmentalist for adults and Econews for youth. Their mission is to be the best and most reliable campaigners for the protection and defence of the environment in the state of Grenada, as well as the wider Caribbean area. FoE Grenada’s main national campaigns concern land use (particularly in relation to tourism), coastal cleanup, sustainable agriculture, local sustainability and good governance, and campaigns against the shipment of nuclear and other toxic waste across the Caribbean. FoEI campaign participation includes Climate Change, International Financial Institutions (IFI), Trade, Environment and Sustainability (TES), Wetlands and Sustainable Societies. FoE Grenada considers the fight for sustainability and environmental protection to be inseparable from human rights and social justice.

Voluntary help needed: contact FoE Granada directly

Haiti

Coalition to Advocate Alternative Development (PAPDA)

PAPDA, #6, Angle Rue Fremy et Avenue John Brown, Port au Prince, Haiti
Tel/ Fax. ++509 458836
camille.sec-exe@papda.org

The Haitian Coalition to Advocate Alternative Development is a coalition of grassroots organisations, non-governmental organisations, and popular education networks, formed in 1995, to stimulate debate about the economic situation and to coordinate alternative proposals for development.

Voluntary help needed: contact PAPDA directly

Collective for the Protection of Environment and Alternative Development (COHPEDA)

Alex Beauchamps , 3e Rue Rivihra 3 bis, Port-au-prince, Haiti
Tel: 509 2452080 or 2457024
Fax: 509 2457043
cohpeda@haitelonline.com

[no web address]

The Haitian Collective for the Protection of Environment and Alternative Development (COHPEDA), founded in 1993, is an umbrella organization that works closely with peasant groups and popular organizations all over the country. Their main national campaign over the past two years has focused on the return to the United States of toxic wastes dumped in Haiti. Sustainable agriculture, critique of existing environmental laws, erosion, and deforestation are other issues on COHPEDA’s agenda.

Voluntary help needed: contact COHPEDA directly