Gathering
August 25th – 27th 2006
St. Francis Retreat Center
San Juan Bautista, California
United States
This is an opportunity to bring together our counterparts from the United States and the Global South. The focus of the three days is to develop strategies and solutions to issues faced by immigrants and people of color in the United States and Global South due to Third World debt and predatory remittance practices. The three key goals of the Gathering are:
- To consolidate the TIGRA Network and initiate the formation of La Liga de Sostenedores de la Comunidad Mundial or the Global Association of Community Sustainers that will be the organizational vehicle to bring together remitters and their families.
- To discuss and adopt the Transnational Community Benefits Agreements (TCBA) which will be the platform containing the key demands on the money transfer industry regarding community reinvestment, corporate social responsibility standards, and accountability.
- To develop a plan and a strategy for the corporate accountability campaign that advances the TCBAs.
We are convening 75 key leaders to develop strategies that will win accountability from corporations benefiting from remittances:
- We expect 42 organizations from twelve cities in the United States to be represented. They come from hometown associations, immigrant rights groups, immigrants in religious institutions, worker centers, organizing groups, community-based developers, and various ethnic associations.
- We have confirmed the attendance of groups from the Global South from migrant rights networks, grassroots organizations waging campaigns against the impact of structural adjustments and debt, or community-based development projects that have leveraged remittance monies into productive uses. They are from the Philippines, Mexico, El Salvador, Dominican Republic, Kenya, Hong Kong, Haiti, Uruguay, Bolivia, and Honduras.
For more information, contact Viviana Rennella at viviana@transnationalaction.org or at 510-653-3415.
The Gathering is by invitation only.
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