On Wednesday June 10, Colombian president Alvaro Uribe will be speaking at the International Economic Forum of the Americas, also known as the Conference de Montreal:.
The Council of Canadians has been working with many groups to stop the proposed Canada-Colombia free trade agreement. For more on this please go to http://canadians.org/action/2009/9-Apr-09.html.
We have also been working with Ecofondo in Colombia to help secure the human right to water there. More can be read about this at http://canadians.org/campaignblog/?p=394.
Groups have begun to organize against the Conference de Montreal:, and the Council of Canadians will be there to raise these issues of concern. More details to come as plans emerge.
You can read more about Alvaro Uribe’s attendance at the conference both in the conference’s list of confirmed speakers at http://www.conferencedemontreal.com/New_Speakers.html?L=1, and the conference’s programme at http://www.conferencedemontreal.com/fileadmin/pdf/2009/English36.pdf.
