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    Yvon Poirier

    Yvon Poirier is the Chair of the International Committee of the Canadian Community Economic Development Network (CCEDNet), and a member of the coordination committee of RIPESS North America. He has been actively involved in the International Network for the Promotion of the Social Solidarity Economy (RIPESS) since 2004. He is also co-publisher of an International Newsletter on Sustainable Local Development. In 1998, he was on the organization committee of an International Meeting on local development held in Canada. He was founding president of the Quebec City Community Economic Development (CED) organization in 1993-1994. After his university studies in political science, he was a teacher in a college for 29 years, until his retirement. During those years, he was very active in the union movement in Quebec province and was involved in many social movements (for example against the North America Fair Trade Agreement – NAFTA). He is a member of the Alliance for Responsible Plural and Solidarity (ALOE) of the Alliance for a responsible united and plural world since 2005. Participant in different international forums such as WSF (2005 and 2009) and the US Social Forum in 2007. Attended the Civil Society Organisation (CSO) parallel summit in Accra in August 2008 (focus on including civil society in development policies). Lastly, a participant in Globalisation of Solidarity meetings (organises by RIPESS) in Dakar Senegal (November 2005) and Luxemburg (April 2009).

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