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Claudia Torrelli, member of REDES – Friends of the Earth Uruguay and of the Transnational Institute, was one of the speakers of the debate called “From the Peoples’ Summit in Lima to Montevideo”, held last week in Montevideo, Uruguay. There, she talked about the main aspects of the work of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal in Lima.

She is also a member of the Biregional Network Linking Alternatives’ Work Group on Transnational Corporations.

The National Federation of Trade Unions of Unilever Chile (FENASIUN) is accusing British-Dutch corporation Unilever of violationg the rights of Chilean workers by failing to provide them with information about the closing down of its factories and by preventing the workers to make the company's decisions public.

In September of 2006, the company began the second process of massive lay offs, that will lead to the closing down of 50 factories and the loss of 20,000 jobs.

Real World Radio interviewed Pablo Bertinat, from Taller Ecologista de Rosario, who is also the coordinator of the Energy Area of Cono Sur Sustentable Program. He said agrofuel production in Argentina represents a big threat, since it conflicts with the native forest and it goes against food sovereignty.

Bertinat presented the case of Argentina in an activity destined to analyze agrofuels, held in Lima, Peru, within the Peoples’ Summit, Linking Alternatives 3.

Nemagon pesticide used in banana plantations in Central America, has killed 2,500 people and affected the health of 35,000.

The president of the Association of Workers, and Former Workers with Claims against Nemagon (ASOTRAEXDAN), Victorino Espinales, filed the case before the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal (PPT) held in Lima, Peru.

Espinales attended the hearings of the PPT on behalf of the organization “Another World is Possible” to sue three chemical corporations responsible for the production of the pesticide, which chemical composition is diobromo-chloropropane.

Colombian organizations filed an accusation against French-Spanish corporation Proactiva Medio Ambiente at the Permanent Peoples Tribunal (PPT), held in parallel to the meeting of Heads of State and Government of the European Union and Latin America. They accuse the company of the appropriation of fresh water sources, the high and excluding tariffs, the complicity of the Colombian authorities and the impunity that covers their activity.

The session of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal (PPT) on European transnational corporations in Latin America, which took place in Lima, resolved to “morally and ethically sanction” the companies as well as the “political, economic, financial, productive and judicial conducts and practices of the neoliberal model, implemented and permitted by the States and the Institutions of the European Union”.

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Tens of social, business, indigenous, environmental, women and students' organizations and trade unions are participating in the third edition of the Peoples' Summit, Linking Alternatives, both in the activities of the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal and in the self-organized activities.

Two activities on food sovereignty took place on Wednesday. The panelists from different Latin American countries presented the different aspects of this issue in a massive hearing, with the participation of the people present.

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Fisherman Luis Carlos Da Silva, who has worked in Sepetiba Bay, Brazil for forty years, told Real World Radio “I am here to report the massacre and environmental destruction caused by Thyssen Krupp corporation in Sepetiba Bay”. The Bay is threatened by the German siderurgy giant.

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The Spanish bank Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, known by its acronym BBVA, is one of the financial institutions accused on Wednesday before the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal (PPT) that is taking place in Lima. Martin Mantxo, from the Basque ecologist organization Ekologistak Martxan – one of the plaintiff organizations- told Real World Radio that the case against BBVA is very wide because it includes all kinds of atrocities.

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Social, political and popular movements, workers, migrants, indigenous and campesino communities, women's, youth and trade union movements from Latin America, the Caribbean and Europe, gathered in Lima for the People's Summit, Linking Alternatives III, declare the following: