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 Encyclopedia: Quebec City Summit of the Americas
The Summit of the Americas is the name for one of a sequence of summits bringing together the countries of the Americas for discussion of a variety of issues.
The Free Trade Area of the Americas or FTAA (in Spanish: Área de Libre Comercio de las Américas, ALCA; in French: Zone de libre-échange des Amériques, ZLEA; in Portuguese: Área de Livre Comércio das Américas, ALCA) is a proposed agreement to eliminate or reduce trade...
The Quebec Parliament Building at night The National Assembly is the legislative body of the Canadian province of Quebec.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Quebec-City-Summit-of-the-Americas   (2260 words)

  
 Lessons of Quebec City
While the People's Summit stood in clear opposition to the Summit of the Americas, it was funded in part by the Quebec provincial government to the tune of $300,000.
Rather than marching toward the perimeter fence and the Summit of the Americas meetings, march organizers chose a route that marched from the People's Summit away from the fence, through largely empty residential areas to the parking lot of a stadium in a vacant area several miles away.
Quebec gave a whole layer of activists a taste of what it would be like to actually shut down a major trade meeting.
www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Dissent/Lessons_QuebecCity.html   (4331 words)

  
 Summit of the Americas in Quebec City : Some Pictures
The reality is that I had been very tired after the summit, so my day job, my fight for my defence, a few expositions with my photos and a couple of health and personal troubles had all taken away from me the little energies that were remaining.
They were the shame of the even, seen by people angry to discover their beautiful city they are used to be proud of, being disguised into a military camp...
When paranoia got the population of the city, everyone was thinking about a kind of end of world, having nightmares of burning blocks and hard street fights.
www.cmaq.net /upload/extra/Quebec2001   (773 words)

  
 Summit of the Americas: Quebec City protests April 20-22 (2001)
It brings with it, the head of every government in North America (except Cuba), 6000 cops (with tear gas and plastic bullets), a 4m high and 4km long "security" fence, a freshly emptied prison for up to 800 political prisoners, and the possibility of the largest youth and worker mobilization since Seattle 1999.
The armed fortress in Quebec City and the oppression of dissent must be a warning to all about the lengths the Capitalists will go to defend their system.
The protests against the FTAA in Quebec City are a further step in the building of an international movement against this system of exploitation.
www.marxist.com /usa/FTAA_Quebec_April2001.html   (1042 words)

  
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At the Summit of the Americas in Quebec City, heads of state from across the hemisphere pledged to strengthen democracy, advance economic prosperity, and expand the benefits of globalization.
Since the conclusion of the Summit in April 2001, the United States has established and supported an array of initiatives in accordance with the Summit of the Americas action plan.
The FTAA was originally proposed at the Miami Summit of the Americas in 1994.
www.gci275.com /lives/us_oas_accomplish.shtml   (614 words)

  
 SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS 2001 Serious work Notes
SUMMIT Seven men who sought to disrupt the Summit of the Americas in Quebec City last year endangered lives, Judge Pierre Rousseau says.
The Summit of the Americas was the perfect opportunity to correct all the wrongs that have been perpetuated against the indigenous peoples of the Americas, but it failed to do so.
QUEBEC, April 22 — Pledging equal support to democracy and free trade, 34 leaders of the Western Hemisphere closed a summit meeting today by reinforcing their commitment to a vast Free Trade Area of the Americas, vowing to ensure that its benefits are shared by the hemisphere's 800 million people.
www.wednesday-night.com /QAmerConWorkNotes.htm   (3272 words)

  
 Summit of the Americas Information Network   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
On April 20-22, 2001, the 34 democratically elected heads of State and Government from the Americas met in historic Quebec City for the Third Summit of the Americas.
At the Quebec City Summit, leaders addressed common hemispheric issues and challenges that were identified as a result of this three-year process.
The Quebec City Summit of the Americas is considered the third of a series of Summits which have taken place since the first took place in Miami, Florida, in 1994.
www.summit-americas.org /eng-2002/quebeccity-summit.htm   (551 words)

  
 Summit of the Americas: security operation turns Quebec City into an armed camp
This weekend's Summit of the Americas has been made the object of a massive security operation whose purpose goes far beyond protecting US President George W. Bush, the 33 other heads of government attending the summit, and their entourages.
Helicopters are patrolling the entire Quebec City region, while police intelligence officers are systematically checking the guest lists of area hotels and in some cases asking to search guests' baggage.
In the weeks preceding the summit, police and government spokesmen sought to justify repeated increases in the size and scope of the security operation by claiming they had intelligence reports of plans to disrupt the summit.
www.wsws.org /articles/2001/apr2001/queb-a21.shtml   (911 words)

  
 Summit of the Americas: Quebec City Action Plan Outline
On April 20-22, 2001, the 34 leaders of the Americas met in Quebec City for the 3rd Summit of the Americas.
The 2001 Quebec City Action Plan is still the basis for continued efforts.
Each summit has reaffirmed the importance of the FTAA and resulted in a declaration and an action plan signaling the necessary steps to improve the political, social, and economic well being of the peoples of the Americas.
www.state.gov /p/wha/rls/fs/18888.htm   (589 words)

  
 Brendan Cathbad Myers
Ville de Quebec is a very good city in which to have a protest, because the downtown and especially the Old City is an architecture museum.
But the people were forcibly excluded from the debate at the Summit of the Americas: they were gassed and shot at for asserting their right to speak, and to peacefully dissent.
Moreover, the Government of Canada is guilty of incredible hypocrisy, for it represented the purpose of the Summit as "to increase democracy and liberty in all the Americas".
www.wildideas.net /cathbad/exnemeton/quebec.html   (5121 words)

  
 EnviReform - ANALYSIS 5: Politicians, Protestors and Professors at the Quebec City Summit of the Americas, Analysis ...
The third Summit of the Americas, held in Quebec City on April 20-22, was a significant achievement, both for the innovative processes it pioneered and for the new principles and programs it produced.
Assisting the leaders in their common resolve were the more than 25,000 individuals who took the time to come to Quebec City to voice their concerns at the Summit.
Largely coming from those who had mounted consultations and conferences in the lead-up to the Summit, these leaders came from a diverse array of organizations from throughout the hemisphere, and in part from those who left the protests outside to deliver the same message within.
www.envireform.utoronto.ca /old-site/summit_jkmay1.html   (920 words)

  
 Kevin MacKay | Solidarity and Symbolic Protest: Lessons for Labour from the Québec City Summit of the Americas | ...
Although Québec City was generally considered a triumph within the movement, it also highlighted several contradictions that continue to plague the counter-globalization project.
Part of the complexity of the summit protest was the extent to which protestors engaged in acts of symbolic transformation were juxtaposed with a much smaller group involved in violent confrontation (throwing stones, bricks, and moltov cocktails at police).
The affective bonds created in the upper city were further strengthened in the solidarity camp created outside of Orsainville prison, where the Summit arrestees were kept (fig.
www.historycooperative.org /journals/llt/50/mackay.html   (8207 words)

  
 Prime Minister of Canada: Prime Minister to participate in special Summit of the Americas in Monterrey Mexico   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
At the Quebec City Summit of the Americas hosted by Canada in April, 2001 leaders made a series of commitments resulting in the Quebec City Declaration and Plan of Action.
One of the most important commitments of the Quebec City Summit was the “Democracy Clause”, which states that respect for democracy is a necessary condition for participation in the Summit process.
The Summit will set the groundwork for the Fourth Summit of the Americas, to be held in Argentina in 2005.
pm.gc.ca /eng/news.asp?id=21   (470 words)

  
 Quebec City Summit of the Americas, April 2001- CIDA's contribution to the implementation of Summit mandates   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Quebec City Summit of the Americas, April 2001- CIDA's contribution to the implementation of Summit mandates
CIDA is helping to strengthen the capacity of NGOs in the Americas to participate more actively in the democratic and sustainable development of their societies.
CIDA is strengthening NGO capacity of the Caribbean to augment dialogue with governments of the region and increase the participation of the Caribbean diaspora in Canada.
www.acdi-cida.gc.ca /cida_ind.nsf/682f5cd8c017661b8525677d007117d9/dba8d5d0c733ce5085256e15005f8cc2?OpenDocument   (4989 words)

  
 Protest the Summit of the Americas
Quebec City was best navigated not on soles of foolish pride but on the shoulders of humble souls.
Quebec City wasn't his moment to shine, but you just know his is not far off.
In Quebec City, the blues were ready, with the blessings of the 34 heads of state and Ottawa, the branch plant of Washington.
photosc.msspro.com /citizen/quebec.htm   (19807 words)

  
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Quebec City / Summit of the Americas Protests
Police guard the entrance to the sealed-off Summit area.
Protesters eat an early dinner on the battlements of vieux Quebec.
monkeyfist.com /quebec_photos   (463 words)

  
 The Summit of the Americas and the Caribbean
And the Summit process is a unique mechanism in this hemisphere, and it plays an important role in reinforcing the strong ties between the United States and the Caribbean, as well.
At the Quebec City Summit in 2001, for example, leaders called for establishment of this Inter-American Democratic Charter, which now exists, to promote the active defense of representatives of democracy in our hemisphere.
And by the way, and this is important, on the theme of corruption, the leaders committed to deny safe haven to corrupt officials, to those who corrupt them, and to their assets, and to set in motion a high-level effort to strengthen our hemispheric mechanisms for cooperating in the fight against corruption.
www.state.gov /p/wha/rls/rm/40003.htm   (3228 words)

  
 Quebec, city, Canada
In 1663, Quebec was made the capital of New France and became the center of the fur trade.
The city was unsuccessfully attacked by the English in 1690 and 1711.
The Challenge for Quebec: Despite diversity in the big city, and against the trend in the rest of Canada, immigration is on a long-term slide, and ethnic isolation is on the rise in suburbs.(TIME Special Report/Canada 2005) (Time International)
www.infoplease.com /ce6/world/A0840746.html   (521 words)

  
 CTV.ca | Quebec City prepares for summit
Police are preparing for the Summit of the Americas in Quebec City, where 34 heads of state from North, Central and South America will gather in April to talk about globalization and free trade.
Up to 5,000 officers will be on hand for the summit to ensure it isn't disrupted by the kind of violence that rocked Seattle when that city hosted trade talks in 1999.
Quebec City is beginning to look like a fortress.
www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1025816398164_21225598   (240 words)

  
 CBC News Indepth: Summit of the Americas 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The idea was to address the issues and challenges that have arisen since the April 2001 summit in Quebec City.
While the primary goal of the Summit of the Americas process is a free trade agreement linking the 34 democratically-elected countries in the hemisphere (the Free Trade Area of the Americas, or FTAA), trade is not on the official agenda in Monterrey.
Brascan's in Brazil, Hydro Quebec is in Mexico, Methanex is in Chile and Enbridge is in Colombia.
www.cbc.ca /news/background/summitofamericas   (903 words)

  
 Activists: We Won't Be Fooled By Summit of the Americas PR
Activists: We Won't Be Fooled By Summit of the Americas PR Published on Thursday, April 12, 2001 in the Toronto Star
The security perimeter for the Summit of the Americas to be held later this month has been almost completed.
According to a draft copy of the summit's final declaration obtained by Reuters yesterday, democracy is an ``essential condition'' of a country's presence at this month's and future summits.
www.commondreams.org /cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/headlines01/0412-02.htm   (606 words)

  
 AlterNet: Quebec City Crackdown
When Quebec City hosts the 3rd Summit of the Americas, the largest police deployment in Canadian history will be there to prevent anti-globalization protesters from shaking up the process.
Aside from the Summit's usual declarations on security and terrorism, human rights and democracy, the main focus of this year's meeting will be to finalize the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) agreement.
Once their story became public, both the police and Quebec City Mayor Jean-Paul L'Allier quickly apologized for the "mistake," by explaining that the officers had misunderstood a local bylaw.
www.alternet.org /story.html?StoryID=10510   (1819 words)

  
 quebec city history   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Quebec City offers indisputable proof that North America has a secular history and an ancestral culture.
Explore the history of Quebec city with an interpretive guide who will tell you stories of the crimes that were committed from the 1600's to the 1900's.
Quebec City is the oldest extant European settlement in Canada.
www.aldenvet.com /quebec-city-history.html   (434 words)

  
 Labour/Le Travail: Solidarity and symbolic protest: lessons for labour from the Quebec City Summit of the Americas. ...
Labour/Le Travail: Solidarity and symbolic protest: lessons for labour from the Quebec City Summit of the Americas.
Solidarity and symbolic protest: lessons for labour from the Quebec City Summit of the Americas.
Through text and images, the first section presents the Summit demonstrations as an instance of creative and symbolic protest, in which participants and observers were educated, empowered, and radicalized.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_go2445/is_200209/ai_n7367653   (209 words)

  
 Straight Goods - Canada's independent, reader supported on-line source of news you can use   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
From Seattle to Quebec City - Protest veteran Chaitanya K Kalevar compares protests and police actions at events since Seattle and concludes Seattle was more dangerous.
Summit's political prisoner Jaggi Singh still in jail - From the Globe and Mail, April 27.
David Suzuki went to Quebec City to speak for the environment but had to leave because, as an asthmatic, the tear gas threatened his health.
www.straightgoods.com /FTAA   (1707 words)

  
 The Quebec City Hemispheric Trade and Sustainability Symposium - Americas - Trade | IISD
The Hemispheric Trade and Sustainability Symposium was held in Quebec City on April 17th - 19th, 2001, a few days before the third Summit of the Americas.
The overall goal of the Symposium was to provide a constructive, policy-oriented, and knowledge-based open forum for dialogue on trade and sustainability issues in the Americas.
Many felt that if such options could be identified and proposed to policy-makers and negotiators, this could lead to better Americas cooperation in these areas, and increasing public support for the Americas integration agenda.
www.iisd.org /trade/americas/qc2001.asp   (612 words)

  
 blah blah blah (re)Viewing Quebec
They went to Québec City for the Summit of the Americas protest, shot video, shared it, and produced a collection of sometimes exceptional pieces.
Media coverage of the Summit is contrasted with footage shot in the front lines of protest.
vocal demonstration is a personal reflection, after witnessing an incredibly minute representation of people of colour at the summit of the americas demonstration in quÈbec city, 2001.
urbannation.com /blah.htm   (765 words)

  
 Watchdogs Aim to Get Environment on Summit of the Americas Agenda
Demonstrators will be marching at Quebec because, as negotiations move forward on a free-trade area of the Americas, the environment is not really on the agenda.
The government of Brazil, Latin America's largest economy, has said bluntly that an environmental standards agreement as part of the FTAA would be unacceptable.
At this week's People's Summit, leading up to the weekend official summit, international environmental groups will be making the dogs bark.
www.commondreams.org /cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/views01/0416-05.htm   (621 words)

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