- Civil society prepares a side event from October 7 to 9th and a broad agenda to question the role of financial institutions and the neoliberal model.
Servindi, 21 September, 2015.- A press conference on Wednesday morning, September 16, served as public launch of the Alternative Platform to the Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund to be held in Lima next month.
The initiative is a coalition of social, youth and grassroots organizations that promotes critical discussion spaces as part of the Annual Meetings.
The presentation was made by Martha Torres Marcos-Ibañez, Amazon Specialist at Rights, Environment and Natural Resources (DAR); Carlos Bedoya, lawyer, journalist and adviser of the Latin American Network on Debt and Development (Latindadd); José de Echave, economist at Cooperaccion and former deputy Minister of the Environment; Jorge Rodriguez Rios, anthropologist and representative of the Alternative Platform Youth Committee; and Giancarlo Contreras, president of the Peruvian Federation of Rare Diseases (FEPER).
The spokespersons announced this alternative event in the tradition of the People's Summit to be held the 7th, 8th and 9th of October. The program will be structured along four pilars: World Bank and social-environmental safeguards, climate change, respect for human rights and indigenous peoples.
Martha Torres, José de Echave, Carlos Bedoya and Jorge Rodríguez presented the Alternative Platform in the Bolivar Hotel. Photo: Red Muqui
The Alternative Event will close with a massive People's March on the 9th October. The concentration will convene at 9:00 am at the Plaza San Martin in the centre of Lima, where a cultural activity will be carried out to start the march at 11:00 am.
One of the objectives of the march will be to deliver a document to the World Bank-IMF Annual Meetings, summarizing the results of the open and democratic social participation and the critique and proposals made for a fairer socio-economic society.
The Alternative Platform consists of the National Association of Centers (ANC), the Interethnic Association for the Development of the Peruvian Rainforest (AIDESEP), the General Confederation of Workers of Peru (CGTP), CAD Ciudadanos al Día, the National Conference on Social Development (CONADES) and Youth CONADES.
Other institutions participating in the platform are the Federation of Students of Peru (FEP), Left Youth Forum, OXFAM Peru, the Unity Pact of Indigenous Peoples of Peru (CNA, CCP, ONAMIAP, UNCA, FENMUCARINAP and CUNARC) and Servindi.
For more information about the Alternative Event send a message to: eventoalternativo@plataformanacional.com
Alternative Platform Twitter account is: #PlataformaAlt [Spanish]
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