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| Summits to Face Off in Argentina Next Week |
| Grassroots alliance set to rally against globalization policies during Summit of the Americas |
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Fernando Marino-Aguirre (kalonik)  |
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Published 2005-10-28 11:40 (KST) |
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Starting Monday, various groups will gather for their own week-long meeting to be held in Mar del Plata City, Argentina, in opposition to the Summit of the Americas, a gathering national leaders also scheduled to meet in the city for that week.
Summoned by the Continental Social Alliance, The People's Summit will unite more than 500 social organizations who are against the neo-liberal policies of the globalization process. Among other subjects, the rights of indigenous people and defending education will be discussed.
The participants define themselves as the other face of the world leaders, with the intention "to generate processes of resistance to the domination project that the hegemonic powers want to impose."
The sessions will begin three days before the summit of presidents, and their organizers plan a multi-organizational march in rejection to U.S. President George Bush on Nov. 4. The Education Workers Confederation announced a strike throughout the country for that day in support to the measurement.
Also, Cuban singer Silvio Rodriguez is expected to attend, as well as the heads organizing the event and Nobel Peace Prize winner Adolfo Perez Esquivel.
The main preoccupation of the organizers of the People's Summit is whether Mar del Plata will be turned into a city under siege next week.
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