Trade Reform
"...there's real beings in the world, all the species, all the humans, all the struggling people. We don't exist in the new constitution enshrined around global capital and its freedoms. And it's time to correct that error because we do have rights ...the errors of rulers in recognising rights do not extinguish rights. -Vandana Shiva
Trade Reform Headlines
- 06/22/09 - Panama's Ngöbe Indians Win Major Victory at Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
- 06/22/09 - A Victory for Indigenous Peoples: Controversial Free Trade Laws Revoked by Peru's Congress
- 06/04/09 - New Website is a Comprehensive Information Tool on the Global Land Grab
- 04/30/09 - Mexico's Swine Flu and the Globalization of Disease
- 04/30/09 - How 'The NAFTA Flu' Exploded
- 04/29/09 - The "NAFTA Flu": Critics Say Swine Flu Has Roots in Forcing Poor Countries to Accept Western Agribusiness
- 04/23/09 - Consequences of US Farm Policy on Mexico Farmers
- 04/22/09 - G-8 Ag Ministers’ Support for Free Trade and Biotech Undermine Progress to Eradicate Hunger
- 04/21/09 - NAFTA Threat Won’t Stop Quebec Ban on Lawn Pesticides
- 04/03/09 - Will Dow Challenge Quebec Pesticide Law?
- 03/30/09 - Will NAFTA Exterminate Canadian Pesticide Bans?
- 03/10/09 - Chavez Orders Nationalization of Cargill
- 02/22/09 - Layoffs at the Factory Farm: Farmers Take the Hit as the CAFO Model Comes Under Pressure
- 02/21/09 - Livestock Producers from Mexico, Canada and United States Seek New Trade Policy and Market Reforms
- 02/04/09 - The Farms Race: Wealthy Countries Short of Fertile Land are Gazing Hungrily at Canada's Prairies
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The GNA Trade Reform Platform
Press the politicians to support:
- Repeal NAFTA & CAFTA and withdraw from the WTO, so that Fair Trade, environmental sustainability, and a living wage for all become the foundation of our trade policies.
- Federal legislation, such as the Employee Free Choice Act, guaranteeing that when the majority of workers in a corporation, an industrial farm, or a sizeable workplace sign union cards, the employer would be required to enter into a collective bargaining process with the workers.
- An increase in the Federal Minimum Wage to $8.50 an hour, moving us more in line with the minimum wage in Canada and Europe.
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Resources
- No Logo
A video examining the reasons for the worldwide negative perception of transnational corporations. - The Hidden Face of Globalization
This documentary investigates the working conditions of Bangladeshi garment workers. - Fair
Trade or Free Trade?
A list of bullet points on the failings of the CAFTA trade agreement. - Women
Say No To CAFTA
Released by the International Gender and Trade Network, this lists the myriad ways in which CAFTA harms not helps workers, especially women.
Featured Website
International Forum on Globalization -Reporting on the breadth & scope of corporations' and international agencies' domination of the worldwide marketplace.
Featured Book
The
Great Turning -by David C. Korten - More featured books
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