As the Obama administration ramps up its negotiations and its pursuit of “fast-track” authority, opposition from lawmakers and activists has similarly escalated, reports Toward Freedom.

Le réseau des organisations paysannes de producteurs agricoles de l’Afrique de l’Ouest (ROPPA) s’insurge contre l’Accord de partenariat économique (APE).

On the occasion of the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh’s visit to the USA, where he is supposed to discuss a Bilateral Investment Treaty between India and the US, the Forum against FTAs, a coalition of over 75 organisations, farmers groups, trade unions and development activists, calls upon the Prime Minister to review and rescind its decision to engage in this damaging treaty.

A crowd of about 60 activists chanted their disapproval of the proposed agreement outside the office of the US Trade Representative while a juggler wearing a dark business suit and a huge Obama mask repeatedly dropped his bowling pins marked “Jobs,” “Truth” and “Peace”

The Global Asthma Network warns that the proposed Pacific-wide free trade agreement could lead to higher costs for essential medicines around the world.

This treaty, if passed, would represent an enormous challenge to public-owned health services across Europe.

Más de 200 productores de cuero y de calzado de Bogotá realizan a esta hora una manifestación pacífica en las instalaciones del Ministerio de Comercio, Industria y Turismo en contra del Tratado de Libre Comercio con Panamá que firmará esta semana el Gobierno Nacional.

While Thai authorities trumpet the progress of the second round of negotiations for a free-trade agreement with the European Union, activists are harsh in their opposition, particularly on the opening up of the pharmaceutical and agricultural sectors.

À l’appel d’Attac et d’Aitec, plus de 50 représentant(e)s d’organisations et de réseaux citoyens affirment leur refus du traité transatlantique.

In Colombia after 21 days of a nationwide strike by thousands of farmers, blocking more than 40 roads nationwide, protesting farmers forced the Colombian government to negotiate the rejection of a farm bill and the release of detained protesters. Report from Real News Network.

Marie-Monique Robin (réalisatrice des documentaires : Le Monde selon Monsanto et Les Moissons du Futur) revient sur le désastre humanitaire provoqué par l’ALENA et nous met en garde contre l’accord de libre-échange transatlantique qui se prépare.

Communiqué de presse interassociatif (Act Up-Paris, HAI, Oxfam, Action against AIDS)

On August 28, a group of members of the Peruvian legislature – the Parlamentario Acción Popular-Frente Amplio – proposed [a motion that asks for greater transparency in the Trans Pacific Partnership negotiations.

"Nosotras y nosotros delegados y delegadas que conformamos la comisión política continental de la CLOC Vía Campesina, reunidos en Santiago de Chile los días 7 al 11 de setiembre, nos solidarizamos con el Paro Agrario y Popular de Colombia..."

An EU trade initiative intended to reduce poverty in the world’s poorest countries has driven thousands of Cambodian farming families into destitution and led to serious human rights violations, Inclusive Development International (IDI) and Equitable Cambodia and said in a report released Monday.

Concluido el Paro, Dignidad Agropecuaria Nacional expidió una declaración pública en la que se precisan algunos de los logros de la movilización y se advierte sobre la necesidad de continuar la denuncia y lucha para renegociar los TLC. Sin esa renegociación o, incluso, supresión de los Tratados no será posible gozar de una agricultura próspera, señalan los voceros de esta organización.

This week’s AFL-CIO convention passed a resolution vowing to fight any trade agreement that promotes the rise in corporate power at the expense of working people.

The Colombian anarchist Grupo Libertario Vía Libre wrote and published the following article in late August, in Spanish. Now translated to English.

About 5,000 health, consumer, and farming activists are planning a mass demonstration in Chiang Mai next week to protest against free trade talks between Thailand and the European Union.

Radio interview with Julia Duranti, with Witness for Peace. The group works in some of the hardest-hit regions for farmers in Colombia.