Posted on May 10, 2008 by paulgarver
If you bought your Mom flowers for Mothers Day, chances are that they arrived on one of the 28 daily cargo flights into Miami from Colombia, where over 100,000 mainly female workers pick and process flowers for the U.S. market. They earn a minimal wage, are exposed to numerous toxins from pesticides and fungicides, [...]
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Posted on April 23, 2008 by dsalaborblogmoderator
David Duhalde
YDS National Organizer
Originally published on theactivist.org
I gave several talks about the connection between capitalism and immigration as part of the Student Labor Week of Action. My second stop, after Butler University, was at Wooster College, where I am currently sitting in a college house scribbling through this entry. Both talks were sponsored by [...]
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Posted on April 20, 2008 by paulgarver
On April 21 Democratic Socialists of America is joining with some thirty other U.S.-based organizations and networks to call upon the U.S. Congress to exercise its authority to reign in the opaque and undemocratic process called the Security and Prosperity Partnership. The SPP has been organized by top business CEOs and the chief executives of [...]
Filed under: Economy, Fair Trade, Global organizing | Tagged: Democratic Socialists of America, DSA, NAFTA, SPP | 2 Comments »
Posted on April 15, 2008 by dsalaborblogmoderator
Demos has organized a interesting program on the global economy.
Thurs., April 17, 2008
Program from 12:00-2:00 pm
at Demos 220 Fifth Ave., 5th Floor
New York, NY [ directions]
NAFTA, CAFTA, the Columbia Free Trade Agreement, climate change and issues of the global economy are front and center in our Presidential debate. The laissez faire vision of the global [...]
Filed under: Fair Trade, Global organizing, Organizing | Tagged: Fred Azcarte, globalization, Katie Quan, Robert Kuttner, Sean Sweeney | No Comments »
Posted on March 31, 2008 by paulgarver
by Paul Garver
Even as a growing number of citizens of the USA, Mexico and Canada are demanding the renegotiation of NAFTA, government and corporate elites are stealthily reshaping the agreement into a Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) to promote greater economic and military integration of the continent. When the next SPP Summit involving the three [...]
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Posted on March 26, 2008 by dsalaborblogmoderator
President Bush has said he will send the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement FTA) to Capitol Hill and demand a vote before he leaves office next January.
Despite objections by the Democratic congressional leadership, the administration may formally send the agreement to Congress as early as next week when Congress returns from its Easter recess on March [...]
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Posted on March 18, 2008 by dsalaborblogmoderator
Stuart Elliott
Today, looking at my email in box, a news release from the International Trade Union Confederation caught my attention. It read “Violent repression of Vietnamese workers strike.” But, I overlooked something. Before that phrase that caught my attention, the release named where the strike took place–Jordan!
Turns out these were Vietnamese [...]
Filed under: Fair Trade, Global organizing | Tagged: ITUC, Jordan, migrant labor, Taiwan, Vietnam | 2 Comments »
Posted on March 12, 2008 by paulgarver
To date the united and unrelenting critique of the Colombian and American labor movements of the systematic violations of union rights in Colombia has deterred the Bush administration from introducing legislation to ratify and implement the U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Act (née Free Trade Agreement). Now it is trying to use national security arguments [...]
Filed under: Fair Trade, Solidarity | Tagged: Bush, Clinton, Colombia, FARC, Free Trade, Obama | 7 Comments »
Posted on February 14, 2008 by dsalaborblogmoderator
From the International Labor Rights Forum
FLOWERSOn holidays like Valentine’s Day, many consumers do not think about the labor behind their flowers. We have a new urgent action e-mail to Colombian flower executives calling on them to respect workers rights in the cut flower industry. Stand in solidarity with [...]
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Posted on February 3, 2008 by dsalaborblogmoderator
Boston DSA members working in the Jobs with Justice coalition
helped organize a protest action against the U.S.-Colombia FTA on 26
January. See article posted at http://bostondayofaction.org/now/node/38
Chicago DSA participated with thirty other organizations in a letter to
Illinois senators Obama and Durbin opposing the FTA. This letter is
publicized in a creative way at [...]
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