by Kevin Neish [Kevin is a Canadian human rights activist and unionist who went on an Alliance for Global Justice delegation to Colombia in 2009. This article is reprinted from Straight.Com – Vancouver’s Online News Source] The ink is barely dry on the Canada-Colombia free-trade deal, which Stephen Harper signed with great fanfare and promises…
Trade, economics & globalization (neoliberalism)
Labor, News, Nicaragua, Trade, economics & globalization (neoliberalism)
Labor, sweatshops and CAFTA in Nicaragua
By Steve Watrous [Steve Watrous teaches sociology at Milwaukee Area Technical College and is the chair of the Milwaukee Fair Trade Coalition. This article first appeared in the Labor Press. ]
Action alerts, Colombia, Labor, Trade, economics & globalization (neoliberalism)
AFL-CIO Oct. 4th Call-In Day Against Free Trade Pacts
The following alert was originally drafted by the AFL-CIO. Please see the action component below. Your representative in Congress is considering three dangerous new free trade agreements, with Colombia, Korea and Panama. With more than 25 million Americans desperately searching for full-time jobs, the last thing our leaders should focus on is trade deals that…
Action alerts, Colombia, Trade, economics & globalization (neoliberalism)
We Know Free Trade Kills Jobs
…and yet President Obama is still pushing forward the three pending free trade agreements. In his speech on jobs he cleverly slipped in a nod to the pending free trade agreements with Colombia, Panama and South Korea, saying: “Now it’s time to clear the way for a series of trade agreements that would make it…
Audio-visual, Colombia, Cultural solidarity & struggle, Trade, economics & globalization (neoliberalism), Uncategorized
No FTA Poster
Created by Raquel Mogollón
Colombia, James Patrick Jordan, News, Trade, economics & globalization (neoliberalism)
False Claims Versus Hard Realities: The Pending Free Trade Agreement with Colombia
by James Jordan With a little more than a year till the 2012 elections the White House and Congressional leadership are anxious to pass pending Free Trade Agreements as soon as possible. They are hoping that their constituents won’t notice what’s going on and, if they do, that they’ll have forgotten by Election Day, 2012.
Labor, Latin America solidarity - general or not otherwise covered, News, Trade, economics & globalization (neoliberalism)
Labor, Sweatshops and CAFTA in Nicaragua
By Steve Watrous (Watrous is a professor and Chair of the Milwaukee Fair Trade Coalition.) As I walked through the big room of a clothing factory in Managua’s free trade zone, where about 800 workers were busy sewing and ironing black Wrangler jeans, the heat was horrible for a visitor from the north. I saw…
Chuck Kaufman, Democracy, News, Trade, economics & globalization (neoliberalism)
Anger and the Euro-descended working and middle classes
By Chuck Kaufman (This post can also be read on Chuck’s Znet Blog.) I am angry. I don’t personally have any kids or grandkids, but I am deeply angry anyway that the children and grandchildren of my friends are going to have a worse education, poorer health care, lower paying jobs, less personal security, and…
Action alerts, Trade, economics & globalization (neoliberalism)
Debt Default? Social Security Cuts?
Vote for budget choices you really support! What’s your favorite idea in the high-stakes negotiations over the debt ceiling? Cutting Social Security benefits? Giving billionaires new tax breaks? How about voting for choices you can really support? You can! Vote here between three very different budget blueprints: The GOP budget The Obama budget The People’s…
Action alerts, Colombia, Trade, economics & globalization (neoliberalism)
TODAY July 11th – National Call In Day Against Free Trade Agreements
This alert was originally circulated by Citizen’s Trade Campaign. This could be it. The Colombia Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and other pending trade deals could come up for a vote any day now unless our legislators really hear some resistance. So please participate in a National Call-in Day, TODAY, Monday, July 11. Today, hundreds of…
