A los hermanos y hermanas
A la Prensa Nacional e Internacional
A tod@s los que luchan por otro mundo posible.
To our brothers and sisters
To the National and International Press
To all those who are fighting for another possible world.
For over a year, we have been working hard to make a reality the caravans for diversity and resistence against the FTAA. In this way various workshops, forums, meetings, and assemblies in all of the national territory have been realized, allowing us to diffuse and amplify the discussion of the Free Trade Area of the Americas, and to strengthen the mobilization for the 31st of October and the 1st of November of 2002.
At this time we are absorbed in the moment of the elctions, and as a campesino organization we have good possibilities of attaining a significant presence in the parliament and in local governments. But the struggle is permanent, and is being fought in diverse scenarios. Because of this we have joined together with the CONAIE, and other social organizations of the country and have succeeded in agreeing to a space of unity. We have advanced in the convocation of the day of Continental mobilization.
Compañer@s, the caravans will be converted beginning with the 23rd of October into walking caravans, and will go strengthened by the massive presence of the men and women of the country. With this project we hope to shar with you our trip. Certainly the majority of the names of the towns and communities are going to seem strange or different but that how we are, and we invite them to share our forms of resistence, solidarity and struggle.