Alternatives (Montréal)

Alternatives Action and Communication Network for International Development is a non-governmental international solidarity organization founded in 1994.

Our vision

Alternatives believes that another world is possible, through the development of sustainable societies. This conviction is based on engagement, experience, the values of Alternatives members and the social movements to which they belong.

• Alternatives works for a more just world in which women, men and children can live in dignity, respect and with the equitable sharing of the power and resources that they need to live and thrive.

• We build this world in a way that respects the diversity of all people, and honours the human, civil, economic, social and cultural rights of all.

• This other possible world is based on solidarity, cooperation, and respect for the environment, peace and participatory democracy.

• This other world, founded on the basis of an equal, sustainable and democratic social and economic development, is already being built through a difficult but 5real process of construction, at the local, national and global levels.

Our mission

Strengthened by our vision and our national and international experience, Alternatives is an organization that works for solidarity, justice and equity, both here and elsewhere in the world.

Our mission aims to create networks, promote and build innovative initiatives in popular and social movements that fight in favour of economic, social, political, cultural and environmental rights.

Alternatives wants to strengthen citizen action and reinforce the contribution of social movements in the construction of sustainable societies.

Alternatives benefits from the valuable support of public figures coming from diverse backgrounds, that of culture and information (the novelist Margaret Atwood, and the journalist and writers Gil Courtemanche, Judy Rebick, Ariane Émond and Stanley Péan), of the social world (Madeleine Parent, Françoise David, Amir Khadir) and the international arena (Mgr Desmond Tutu, Asmaa Jangir, Noam Chomsky).