• Abolition of poor countries external debt
• Control of international financial capital and taxation for wealth redistribution and development financing
• Moratorium on the WTO to reorient international trade
• Public control (oversee) of transnational companies
• Defense of labor rights
• Development of a solidarity economic sector
• Environmental reconstruction and sustainable development
• Creation and extension of universal health care and education system
• Food sovereignty
• Democratization of mass communication outlets
• Defense of peoples identity
• Rights of immigrants and combating the trafficking of people
• Disarmament
• Integral human rights
• New international for global governance

U.S. Trade Pact Is Protested in Costa Rica
SAN JOSÉ, Costa Rica, Sept. 30 Reuters — More than 100,000 Costa Ricans, some dressed as skeletons, protested a United States trade pact on Sunday that they said would flood their country with cheap farm goods and cause job losses.

Chanting “No to the free trade pact” and “Costa Rica is not for sale,” demonstrators filled one of San José’s main boulevards to show their opposition to the Central American Free Trade Agreement with the United States.

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