Until very recently, the discussion revolved around the kind of society we would have. Today, the discussion centers on whether human society will survive.

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DECLARATION OF AFRICAN AMERICAN ACTIVISTS, INTELLECTUALS AND ARTISTS IN CONTINUED SOLIDARITY WITH THE CUBAN REVOLUTION

Cuban expatriate Carlos Moore and the other signers of the December 1, 2009 ACTING ON OUR CONSCIENCE: DECLARATION OF AFRICANAMERICAN SUPPORT FOR THE CIVIL RIGHTS STRUGGLE IN CUBA do not speak for or represent the vast majority of Black radicals/progressives, nor the sentiment of the masses of African Americans in the United States. .

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A detailed and critical examination of recent Free Trade Agreements between developing and developed countries, particularly U.S.-developing country FTAs. Includes treatment of issues market access in trade in goods; services; investment liberalisation and protection of investor rights; intellectual property; government procurement; competition policy; labour and environment standards.

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Dr. Carlyle Corbin is International Advisor on Governance and former US Virgin Islands Minister of State for External Affairs

It is my pleasure to be in Curacao, once again, to share some thoughts on the issues of self-determination in the 21st Century, specifically as it relates to small island non-independent countries like the Netherlands Antilles - and soon, Curacao as a separate country in the Kingdom. The Caribbean and Pacific are the two regions of the world where most of the non-independent countries are located...

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Director General Pascal Lamy today applauded the successful efforts of Latin American banana producing nations, the United States and the European Union to end their long running dispute over trade in bananas…

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KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, CMC – A senior banana official has blasted a new tariff agreement between the European Union (EU) and Latin America on the commodity as an “act of treachery” and warned that it will bring on the demise of the industry in the Windward Islands and the rest of the Caribbean…. Coordinator of the Windward Islands Farmers Association (WINFA), Renwick Rose said the compensation being offered under the deal by the EU to countries of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) grouping was inadequate.

Historic agreement reached Banana Link

“A done deal” Renwick Rose, WINFA

On 10 and 11 December 2009 the 3rd ACP Civil Society Forum was held at the ACP House in Brussels. Representatives from Africa, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Civil Society came together to discuss how to move forward after many years of silence and inactivity…

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Salim Lamrani is a professor at Paris Descartes University and Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée University and journalist specializing in relations between Cuba and the US.

On November 7, 2009, the Western media devoted ample space to the Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez. The news from Havana about the dispute between the dissident and Cuban authorities circled the world and overshadowed the rest of the news…

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Dr. Esteban Morales is Professor of Economics and Political Science at the University of Havana and a member of the Commission Against Racism and Racial Discrimination of the National Union of Cuban Writers and Artists–UNEAC. This article first appeared in Spanish in Temas, Cuba’s leading social sciences  journal, No. 56, octubre-diciembre, 2008, pp. 95-99.  It summarises a book,  Desafíos de la problemática racial en Cuba, Editorial de Ciencias Sociales, La Habana, 2008; which is also being translated for publication in English.

There are very few contemporary writings on the subject of race in this country and the ones that do exist are by-and-large found in magazines, especially Temas and Catauro [1] There have been more publications abroad dealing with the subject on a contemporary basis…

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‘Race still an issue in Cuba’: Interview with Esteban Morales, Patricia Grogg, Al-Jazeera

Color Cubano An Interview with Esteban Morales (In Spanish)

This 75-page paper begins with an analysis of the disadvantages of free trade agreements compared to multilateral trade agreements; and continues with a critique of the CARIFORUM-EC Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) through a detailed examination of the chapters on Trade in Goods, Services, Investment, Competition policy, Governmment Procurement, Intelellectual Property and Dispute Settlement.

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Martin Khor is Executive Director of the South Centre. South Centre Climate Policy Brief.

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