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
- 10/22/08 - Consolidation in the Beef Industry Has Gotten Too Intense Even for the Bush DOJ
- 10/06/08 - Medical Marijuana--Dying to Get High
- 09/23/08 - Growing Republican & Democratic Opposition to Wall Street Bail-Out as Polls Show Growing Public Opposition
- 09/22/08 - World Narrowly Avoided "Financial Armageddon" Last Week
- 09/20/08 - Consumer Alert on Global Markets Cascading Meltdown
- 08/21/08 - Globalization Death Watch, Part III: Either We'll be Green or We'll Be Poor
- 08/20/08 - Wastewater Fears for Urban Farms
- 08/14/08 - The Food System as 'Largest Quasi-Public Utility in the World'
- 08/14/08 - Globalization Is Destroying the World's Oceans
- 08/05/08 - Shipping Costs Start to Crimp Globalization
- 08/04/08 - Independence Or Interdependence?
- 07/13/08 - North America Doesn't Exist
- 07/06/08 - NAFTA and the Elephant in the Room
- 06/25/08 - Can Sustainable Agriculture Save the World? New Film Says Yes!
- 06/18/08 - The Prison Industrial Complex: 7.2 Americans in Jail, on Parole or Probation
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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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