--Cesar Chavez, Co-Founder of the United Farm Workers of America, Union Activist, Ethical Vegetarian, Philosopher, Activist


Our goals are as defined within our Statement of Purpose.

You have probably attended many meetings and conferences which speak about building Multi-racial alliances. Here are a few of the many ways in which conferences that you have attended in the past greatly differ from the AWBC 2006 conference:

• We greatly welcome the help of not only face-to-face volunteers but also volunteers who can only help from out-of-state, or out of country who work-from-home with or without the internet.

• We intend to give people who attend the conference the option of placing contact information into a list which we will later transform into a free Alliance building directory.

• The directory will also have a list of the languages that each person or organization is able to speak so that even activists or groups that do not speak English can form new alliances.

• We acknowledge that lack of transportation is a race, class and gender issue. We desire to co-ordinate volunteers to drive to Native American reservations, migrant farm and labor camps, and other extremely low-income communities, to give a free ride, back and forth from the conference, to people living in those communities.

  To learn more about lack of transportation issues that face Native Americans, please read the American Indian Relief Council's resource information on obstacles to prenatal care found by going here (or here for the pdf document). Or to read a personal story about it, please go here (or here for the pdf document).

  [To learn more about the Third World Country conditions that farmworkers face please go here (or here for the pdf document). Or go here to read about the increasing language barriers that farmworkers face. Or go here to read a pdf file about child farmworkers being exploited in the USA.]

• It is the goal of the AWBC 2006 conference that the Grassroots Exhibition will have exhibits only by people and groups which are non-government and non-corporate groups. In addition, it is our desire that Corporate Front Groups are not part of the Grassroots Exhibition. Everyone from everywhere is welcome to attend the AWBC, but use of Grassroots Exhibition space is only for Grassroots individuals and groups. The AWBC 2006 conference will not permit any group that is owned in whole or in part by a government or corporation to use Grassroots Exhibition space during the conference. This is very important because there has been an incredible increase throughout the world of organizations and groups which are deceptively posing as social justice groups and they have increasingly been able to achieve the goals of their government and multinational corporate sponsors.

  [To see a list of corporate front groups and corporate-backed groups please go here. Go here to read about the international usage of corporate front groups in an Australian Science article titled 'ecological double agents.' Or go to your local library and find a very detailed list of corporate front groups found in article written by Co-op Americatitled: 'Unmasking Corporate Front Groups: Will the Real Grassroots Groups Please Stand Up.']

We have many more innovative ideas to build real and lasting multi-racial alliances amongst people who are truly working for world peace. But we can only do it with your help. Volunteer or just make sure you come to the conference! The most important part of the A World Beyond Capitalism conference is YOU!

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