Posted on 09/14/2007 7:08:48 AM PDT by hedgetrimmer
A $2 million grant approved by the United States will go towards supporting a comprehensive program of labor rights projects in six partner countries that are party to the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-Dominican Republic) signed with the United States.
To be implemented by the Organization of American States (OAS)-affiliated non-profit Trust for the Americas, jointly with the OAS Department of Social Development and Employment (DSDE), the 24-month initiative involves Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua.
The grant agreement is part of a larger United States government commitment of some $40 million per year for 2006-2009 “to build the capacity of labor ministries, in dialogue with social partners, to better carry out their responsibilities in safeguarding the rights of workers,” Michael Puccetti, the U.S. Deputy National Summit Coordinator, explained as he announced the contribution at a brief ceremony during the Fifteenth Inter-American Conference of Ministers of Labor that ends in Trinidad and Tobago today.
“The United States is committed to free trade and [is] committed to ensuring that the benefits of free trade are enjoyed by workers and their families,” added Puccetti, who also commended CAFTA countries for seizing labor challenges and created opportunities for achievements and success. The US government commitment involves the State Department, Department of Labor, Office of the US Trade Representative and US Agency for International Development (USAID).
OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza, meanwhile, hailed the grant agreement and thanked the US government for this major boost to labor-related initiatives. He further underscored the need for greater levels of compliance with labor laws as well as for more training for workers. Insulza said businesses stand to benefit by being more rigorous in their labor practices, as compliance with labor laws is a key component of such agreements.
Others on hand for the grant announcement included Charlotte Ponticelli, Deputy Undersecretary for International Affairs at the US Department of Labor, as well as representatives of the CAFTA-DR countries and other ministers and conference delegates.
Among other objectives, the $2 million initiative targeting the six CAFTA-DR countries will help raise awareness and understanding among workers regarding their rights under current labor laws and how to claim them; build capacity of both worker and employer organizations engaged in compliance issues; and build the advocacy and technical capacity of civil society organizations, including labor and human rights NGOs, labor rights attorney and public policy advocacy organizations.
Check out the board of directors for the “Trust for the Americas”.
bttt for later
The looting of the American taxpayer and the corruption of Constitutional government in the guise of the falsely named “free trade” continues at a record pace.
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Could not have said it better myself. The product of arrogant, corrupt, globalist/elitists who are willing to give away America’s soverignty, its freedoms, its wealth, and its Constitution, for their own selfish purposes.
Board of Directors
Officers
Hans Kohlsdorf - President of the Board
President Mesoamerican Region, Siemens
Pedro R. Tinoco - Vice President of the Board
Executive President, Cisneros Foundation
Susan Shattuck Benson - Secretary
Founder, The Trust for the Americas
Alfonso Munevar - Treasurer
Director of Financial Services, Organization of American States (Ex-oficio)
OAS Members of the Board
José Miguel Insulza - Secretary General
Organization of American States (Ex-oficio)
Alfonso Quiñonez - Chief of Staff to the Secretary General
Organization of American States
Private Sector Members of the Board
Carlos Julio Ardila
CEO Organización Ardilla Lülle
Eugenio Beaufrand
Vicepresident, Microsoft Latin America
Miles G. Bryant III
President, American Chamber of Commerce of Mexico
June Langston DeHart
Partner, Manatt, Phelp & Phillips, LLP
Ali Moshiri
President, Chevron Latin America Upstream
Enrique Segura
CEO CAC Pharmaceutical (Founding President of The Trust)
Javier Treviño
Vice President for Corporate Communications, CEMEX
Daniel M. Zelikow
Managing Director, J.P. Morgan
Organization of the American States
Version en Espanol
© 2006 Trust for the Americas. All Rights Reserved. | Headquarters: 1889 F St., NW, Washington, DC 20006, USA
Soon they will unvail the new “Amero dollars”...bet me?
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the saddest thing about this is it is probably just a figleaf to make it look like they aren’t using sweatshop labor. It is wasting our money on a lousy PR project
April 23, 2007 - IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Sponsor: Rep Hinojosa, Ruben [TX-15] CO-SPONSOR Rep Renzi, Rick [AZ-1]
To authorize appropriations for assistance for the National Council of La Raza and the Raza Development Fund.
(b) Authorization of Appropriations- There is authorized to be appropriated for grants under this section—
(1) $5,000,000 for fiscal year 2008; and
(2) $10,000,000 for each fiscal year thereafter.
SOURCE http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=25447
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La Raza is also financially supported by many corporations and tax-exempt foundations (listed on the Discover the Networks.org). Among them:
American Express Foundation, AT&T Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Fannie Mae Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, W. K. Kellogg Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation and Verizon Foundation.
NOTE WELL Between 2001 and 2003, the Ford Foundation gave La Raza about $9.83 million, with one grant alone totaling $8.05 million and has also assisted invaders to setup legal groups that are suing Americans.
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ACTION PROJECT
The SEC and the IRS should be notified about tax-exempt foundations in collusion with La Raza to use tax-exempt money to facilitate the violation of state and federal laws (a felony).
CONTACT THE SEC EMAIL enforcement@SEC.gov
PHONE THE IRS TOLL FREE 1-800-829-0433 You may remain anonymous if you wish.
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REFERENCE
National Council of La Raza Headquarters
Raul Yzaguirre Building (Raul Yzaguirre is Hillary's 2008 Hispanic advisor)
1126 16th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036
Tel. (202) 785-1670
Fax (202) 776-1792
La Raza also has offces in Atlanta, Chicago, Sacramento, Los Angeles, Long Beach, New York, Phoenix, San Antonio, Puerto Rico
Atlanta Program Office Tel. (404) 658-1711 Fax (404) 420-3233
Chicago Program Office Tel. (312) 269-9250 Fax (312) 269-9260
Long Beach-Center for Latino and Community Health Tel. (562) 985-5242 Fax (562) 985-5048
Los Angeles Program Office Tel. (213) 489-3428 Fax (213) 489-1167
New York Office Tel. (212) 260-7070 Fax (212) 260-7039
Phoenix Program Office Tel. (602) 417-1400 Fax (602) 252-0315
Puerto Rico Program Office Tel. (787) 641-0546 Fax (787) 641-0545 nclr-pr@nclr.org
Sacramento Policy Office Tel. (916) 448-9852 Fax (916) 448-9823
San Antonio Program Office Tel. (210) 212-4454 Fax (210) 212-4459
How much do we send Mexico for NAFTA related reasons?
So this means that we pay to protect "labor rights" in other countries as our jobs are being given away to the third world.
Any announcement with the word "comprehensive" in it raises a huge red flag now, and it screams "Americans are getting screwed again"!
I don't remember getting a vote on this, nor does anyone else.
bumping for later read; ty hedgie.
Appear to be mostly foreigners....
The problemis that these foreigners have more to say about our life than we do. Read this:
http://www.state.gov/p/wha/rls/rm/2006/73727.htm
The funny part about this is that we even pay them over a $1million a year to try to get rid of their corruption in their high places.
Bush has made the American taxpayer into a blubbering idiot. We have no choice. I can’t wait until he is out of office.
Neither can I.
Ambassador John F. Maisto, U.S. Permanent Representative to the OAS
Remarks at the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights
San Jose, Costa Rica
September 28, 2006
Implementing the Charter: A Multilateral Commitment Implementing the Charter is, and has to be, a multilateral commitment. Working together in a transparent manner, we must reduce mutual suspicions, speak with frankness, and usher in a new spirit of democratic solidarity with one another.I think you'll be interested in this document, if you haven't already read it (you likely have though).In such a spirit of solidarity, we must act on the Charter to secure democracy where it is threatened. We must act on the Charter to secure democracy with the rule of law. And we must act on the Charter to advance democracy where it is weak or absent. And this will require political will.
To that end, we have an important opportunity to move forward with the objectives we set out at two successive general assemblies where we committed to bolster regional cooperation for strengthening implementation of the Democratic Charter.
The Declaration of Florida and Resolutions 2154 and 2251, adopted in Ft. Lauderdale and Santo Domingo, mark an important multilateral commitment to advance the hemisphere's democratic agenda. Building on previous achievements of the inter-American community to address threats to democracy--Resolution 1080, the Washington Protocol and the Quebec Summit--the Declaration and the accompanying resolutions empower and give the Secretary General a new mandate to move the hemispheric commitment to the Charter and its principles beyond rhetoric, towards practical and politically workable outcomes.
Each one of these guys probably makes $200 million a year in salary alone— not counting their stock options.
Why do they need the US taxpayer to foot the bill for their charities? They could EASILY pony up that money privately or from their companies.
You’re missing the point, and that is the corruption of Constitutional goverment. I am more interested in getting to the point where we are free from the heel of these corporatists fascists.
Not sure.
Got it now thank you.
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