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
- 06/29/10 - "It is Our Time to Make Salt" - Statement from the People's Movement Assembly on Food Sovereignty, US Social Forum 2010
- 06/23/10 - Mexican Corn Farmers: Retreat to Subsistence
- 06/07/10 - Surging Food Costs Hit Poor Nations Hard; Biofuels Compound Problem
- 06/07/10 - Industrial Farming and Globalization: Responsibly Destroying the World's Peasantry
- 05/21/10 - Senate Vote on Historic Financial Reform Critical for Agriculture
- 05/20/10 - Take Action in Solidarity with Haitian Farmers Who Vow to Burn Monsanto's Seeds
- 04/22/10 - US Senate, Bill Gates Give the Planet a Middle Finger for Earth Day
- 04/05/10 - Congress May Lift Trade and Travel Restrictions to Cuba
- 03/31/10 - Obama Puts Pesticide Pusher in Charge of Agricultural Trade Relations
- 03/11/10 - Government Hearings on Agribusiness Concentration Should Consider Role of NAFTA
- 03/04/10 - Globalization On the Rocks
- 02/22/10 - Hogging the Gains from Trade: The Real Winners from U.S. Trade and Agricultural Policies
- 12/29/09 - The Slow Food, "Slow Money" Movement May Revolutionize the Way You Think About Food
- 12/28/09 - Corporate Globalization Leaving Developing Nations Hungry
- 12/15/09 - Dumping on Mexico
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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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