interconnect blog
Please review the following and let me know your reaction, ideas. —-Peter
Purposes of the Blog:
To help build a national progressive movement which will become increasingly capable of affecting US policy in this hemisphere, we need to thoroughly discuss the following kinds of issues:
1. analysis of many unknowns
a. the truth about US-Latin America relations: the actual history of events
b. the probing of secret US plans for “democracy-building” in Latin America,
c. identification of untruths and how to correct them for the public and for Congress,
d. differing views north and south of democracy, national sovereignty vs. globalization,
e. confusion caused by the war on drugs and the war on terror,
f. current/pending crises affecting each nation to our south.
2. How to change US policy and how to:
a. Educate the media,
b. Educate the Congress and administrations
c. Organize ourselves.
Specific examples of issues which need exploring by blog: 1. send your ideas, please. But some that I think go with critical gaps in our knowledge or unsolved problem areas are: -how could we begin a campaign to terminate NAFTA? -what is the Administration doing currently to undermine Hugo Chavez? -what is the National Endowment for Democracy doing currently in Haiti to avoid any Aristide or Preval moves to decrease neoliberal economic measures? -how could we help the Movement learn to educate Congress to a deeper understanding of the needs of Latin America, and why the people want independence of US policy…re “democracy-building”, self-sufficiency, national sovereignty, fair trade, etc.?
— Peter Mott
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