Corporate leaders and US and Colombian government officials with their public relations operatives are peddling lie after lie to justify passage of the US-Colombia FTA. This guide will help people counter the falsehoods in the coming weeks.
We sift through the facts and myths of free trade agreements with Laura Carlsen, director of the Americas Program of the Center for International Policy and a columnist for Foreign Policy in Focus.
Jim Robinson, president of the United Steelworkers of America District 7, joined his fellow steelworkers and 1,000 others to protest in Chicago on Labor Day against a new free trade agreement being negotiated for the Pacific Rim countries.
On Labor Day, 500 activists took to the streets of Chicago to speak out against the US free trade agreement with Pacific Rim countries, including Peru, Chile, and Vietnam. Advocates from labor, environmental, public health, and consumer rights groups took part to demand a “Fair Deal or No Deal.”
A rally of around a thousand unionists, HIV-Aids activists and social justice campaigners in Chicago sent a clear message to negotiators the day before the latest round of Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations began in Chicago.
Chicago labor unions say a looming free trade agreement, the "Trans Pacific Partnership," will lead to the loss of good-paying US jobs. They compare it to NAFTA.
Politicians, labor activists and ice cream makers gather to influence free-trade agreement
Call for all civil society groups, people living with HIV, all communities facing communcable, chronic and/or non-communicable diseases in the TPPA signatory countries to join forces to halt any & all trade agreements that restrict access to generic medicines.
Warning of a new "NAFTA for the Pacific Rim," labor and its allies are demanding a new free trade deal being negotiated for the Pacific region include protections for workers rights, health care and the environment.
This Labor Day, the Pacific Rim will wash into the Midwest’s flagship city, and activists will confront the tides of global commerce with a demand for global economic justice.
The New Zealand Human Rights Commission has declined a request for a scoping study on the human rights implications of the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA), saying it doesn’t have the resources.
La Plateforme Nationale des OSC du Ghana exige que l’on abandonne l’Accord de partenariat économique interimaire
Opening up the Korean market to cheap US citrus imports would simply wipe out most of the farm economy on Jeju Island.
An umbrella group of activists opposed to a proposed U.S. trade deal with eight countries in the Asia Pacific region said Friday they aim to raise public awareness of its potential effects on jobs and the environment when negotiators meet next month in Chicago.
A number of Civil Society Organisations in Ghana have painted a bleak picture about the Economic Partnership Agreement, warning the government will be consigning the economy to irretrievable doom, if it signs the pact with the EU.
Various social organizations held sit-in-protest against European Union-India free trade agreement at Zaphou in Chandel district (Manipur, India) today.
La Commission européenne définit actuellement sa nouvelle politique sur le Commerce et le Développement et a lancé une consultation publique sur cette question. De nombreux lobbies industriels vont utiliser cette consultation pour s’assurer que cette politique défendra leurs intérêts afin qu’ils puissent continuer à profiter de l’exploitation à bas prix et sans limite des matières premières de ces pays.
The Korean Conferederation of Trade Unions has great concerns about the bilateral and regional FTAs which are currently expanding in number across the world.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper boasted Friday that Canada’s new free trade deal with Honduras will help that crime-ridden country emerge from poverty and political chaos, adding that his opponents are just "selfish" trade protectionists.
The National Farmers Union (NFU) has joined voices with the Council of Canadians to warn Canadians in general and the agricultural community in particular about the dangers/threat of the Comprehensive and Economic Trade Agreement (CETA) being forged between Canada and the European Union.