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| Name | ACERCA |
| Web address | www.asej.org |
| Email | brendan@asej.org |
| Address | PO Box 57
Burlington, VT 05402
USA |
| Phone | 802-863-0571 |
| Fax | 802-864-8203 |
| Description | Action for Community and Ecology in the Regions of Central America (ACERCA) works to support indigenous communities and organizations that are working for self-determination and creating locally based initatives for ecological and social justice. We are currently taking a leadership role developing a campaign against the Plan Puebla Panama (PPP), that also includes working against the inter-related Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), the FTAA, and Plan Colombia. Our PPP work is informed by our commitment to the organic processes of cross-border, non-hierarchial organizing - building long-term dialogue and relationships with organizations in the north and south transfering power from the transnational and placing it in the hands of the local. Our PPP work combines coalition building, media campaigns, corporate campaigns, research, popular education and is moving towards direct action and mass mobilization. Supporting our partners from the global south we are rejecting the Plan Puebla Panama and challenging the entire legitimacy of "free trade". We have spearheaded the formation of a northern network of over 15 organizations called the Network Opposed to the PPP (or NoPPP). ACERCA is a project of Action for Social and Ecological Justice (ASEJ) that includes campaigns to ban genetically engineered trees and a cutting edge campaign called North East Links, demonstrating the links between globalization away from home (mainly in Central America) and globalization right here in the North East. |
| Areas of Work | environment and ecosystems
community organizing and movement building
human, social and cultural rights
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