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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
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
Brazil
Public Services International (PSI)
Alameda Jaú 796, Apto. 1007, BR Sao
Paolo, Capital 01420-001, Brazil
Tel/Fax: 55.11.284.0840
ispbrasil@uol.com.br
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
Chile
Public Services International (PSI)
Las Nieves #3477, Dpto, #95, Vitacura, CL
Santiago, Chile
Veronica Prado, Coordinator
Tel: 562.207.5280
Fax: 562.245.0085
ispconosur@manquehue.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
Colombia
Public Services International (PSI)
Carrera 66, #13B-64 Camambú Casa
15, Cali, Valle, Colombia
Tel: 57.2.3397954 OR 57.2.3151150
Fax: 57.2.3153128
hgalindo@emcali.net.co
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
Costa Rica
Public Services International (PSI)
Barrio Fco. Peralta 100E.25N., Casa Italia,
Ofic. Reg IE/ISP, CR San Jose, Costa Rica OR
Apartado Postal 1867-2050, San Pedro de Montes de Oca, CR
San Jose, Costa Rica
Tel: 506.281.1748 / 1749
Fax: 506.281.1615
psicosta@sol.racsa.co.cr
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
Nicaragua
Centro Humboldt
Amado Ordoñez, Bello Horizonte E-III-17,
Apartado Postal 768, Managua, Nicaragua
Tel: 505 2498922 or 8817258
Fax: 505 2492903
incidencia@humboldt.org.ni
www.humboldt.org.ni
Centro Humboldt was founded in 1989 in order
to promote local development and environmental protection.
The group campaigns on external debt, ecological debt, World
Bank policies and projects, climate change, biodiversity,
mining, rainforest destruction, pesticides and oil exploration.
Voluntary help needed: contact Centro Humboldt.
Paraguay
Sobrevivencia
Oscar Rivas, Casilla de Correos 1380 Asunción,
Paraguay
Tel: 595 21 480182/ 595 21 425716
Fax: 595 21 480182/ 595 21 425 716
amiterra@amicidellaterra.it
coordina@sobrevivencia.org.py
www.sobrevivencia.org.py
Since its inception in 1986, Sobrevivencia
has concentrated its efforts on the environmental issues of
indigenous, peasant and marginalized urban communities living
in poverty. Sobrevivencia strives to recover and conserve
environmental quality, and defend and promote cultural values
and ways of life. Sobrevivencia's programmes include sustainable
agriculture, land use, education, and technical and legal
support. The group joined Friends of the Earth International
in 1992, and takes part in these international campaigns:
Ecological Debt, Forest, Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO),
International Financial Institutions (IFI), Mining, and Sustainable
Societies.
Voluntary help needed: contact Sobrevivencia
Peru
Asociación Civíl Labor
Oficina central-Ilo, Urb.Magisterial K-12,
Peru
Tel: 51 54 781816
Fax: 51 54 781208
laborlima@labor.org.pe
www.labor.org.pe
The life, evolution, and institutional prestige of the organization
are closely tied with the changes achieved in Ilo during the
1980s. This city is now known for having some of the country's
best practices in management, conservation, and sustainable
development with urban populations in situations of poverty
and scarce resources. Labor has also been a leader in a negotiations
process involving one of the most important environmental
conflicts of the country; that generated by the mining company
Southern Peru Copper Corporation. Mining is a main campaign
focus for the organization.
Voluntary help needed: see website
Uruguay
REDES
Karin Nansen , San Jose 1423, 11200 Montevideo,
Uruguay
Tel: 598 2 9082730/ 2 9022355
Fax: 598 2 9082730/ 2 9022355
redes@redes.org.uy
Youth Branch: gjae@redes.org.uy
www.redes.org.uy
REDES has six local groups, as well as a
youth branch called Grupo Juventil de Acción Ecológica.
REDES approaches environmental problems from a socio-economic,
political and cultural standpoint. Campaigning, information
sharing, research, environmental education, and lobbying are
key activities. Together with the Spanish-based organization
GRAIN, REDES publishes BIODIVERSIDAD magazine. Current programs
are: Sustainable Uruguay; Biodiversity; Sustainable Agriculture
and Food Security; Trade, Environment and Sustainability;
and Participation and Territorial Management. Active REDES
campaigns include opposing GMOs, actions to halt a gas pipeline,
fighting against plantations of exotic tree species, and working
to stop open-pit gold mining.
Voluntary help needed: contact REDES
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