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Mexico’s landslide election: A labor perspective
12-Jul-2018 The Action Network
Trade justice alliance webinar on Sunday 15 July
“You dropping BRICS from above? We’re throwing bricks from below!”
28-Jun-2018 Pambazuka
Social movements resisting the policies and agendas of Brazil-Russia-India-China-SouthAfrica elites will make their voices heard during the BRICS summit in Johannesburg on 22-27 July.
Rally protests trade agreement
21-Jun-2018 Green Left Weekly
More than 100 members of unions, aid and development organisations, health, environment and other groups rallied in Sydney outside the Parliament’s public hearing on the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership.
NGO’s send letter to Minister Kaag to call for termination of BIT with Burkina Faso
20-Jun-2018 Both Ends
Both ENDS sent a letter, signed by various civil society organisations, to the Dutch Minister of Aid & Trade to urge her to terminate the Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) that exists between the Netherlands and Burkina Faso.
Activists sound alarm over trade deal
13-Jun-2018 The Nation
Groups say agreement will harm Thai agriculture and health, warn decision should be left to incoming elected government.
One Treaty to rule them all
13-Jun-2018 TNI
The ever-expanding Energy Charter Treaty and the power it gives corporations to halt the energy transition.
September 10 | International day against WTO and free trade agreements
22-May-2018 La Via Campesina
In memory of farmer Lee and the continuing struggles of peasants in resisting the neo-liberal agenda of WTO, La Via Campesina marks September 10 as the International Day Against WTO and Free Trade Agreements.
Doctors to go on strike tomorrow against FTA with Singapore
16-May-2018 Colombo Gazette
Government doctors are to stage a token strike tomorrow against the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Sri Lanka and Singapore.
RCEP trade round: Singapore host privileges business over people’s rights
4-May-2018
Trade officials from 16 countries that are negotiating RCEP are meeting in Singapore this week. But Singapore government has gone backwards excluding trade unions, farmers and civil society organisations who will be adversely affected by RCEP that has gain a voice in previous rounds, although not nearly enough.
Peru: Final statement from the people’s summit
17-Apr-2018 News Click
The representatives of social and popular organizations of Peru, Latin America and the Caribbean, met in Lima, Peru from April 10 to 14, 2018 to discuss the political, social and economic reality of Our America.
International day of peasants’ struggles 2018: La Via Campesina calls for the coordination of decentralised, united action!
10-Apr-2018 La Via Campesina
For land and for life! Enough free trade agreements, enough impunity!
Zapatista women inspire the fight against patriarchy
4-Apr-2018 Waging Nonviolence
When the Zapatista National Liberation Army went public, they called NAFTA a death sentence for the indigenous peasants of Mexico
Don’t sign CFTA, Labour; ex-NACCIMMA boss, others beg Buhari
12-Mar-2018 Vanguard
Organised labour pleaded with President Muhammadu Buhari not to sign the African Continental Free Trade Agreement CFTA.
Activists cement their feet in concrete to protest CPTPP signing
8-Mar-2018 Newshub
A last-ditch effort to stop the CPTPP has seen protesters cement themselves in concrete as well as dumping pillows and soft toys outside MP’s offices.
Resist the onslaught of neo liberal attacks under CPTPP
8-Mar-2018 People over Profit
Peoples movements, especially women, are enraged that the revived and rebranded CPTPP (Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership), an agreement set to trample on people’s rights, will be signed today, March 8, the very same day that is historically dedicated to honor the struggle of working class women against injustice and capitalist exploitation, and for the advancement of their rights.
Nationwide action against the TPPA
5-Mar-2018 Scoop
It’s Our Future is hosting events throughout New Zealand in opposition to the signing of the TPPA.
Anti-TPPA protesters lock themselves to railway track in Christchurch video
1-Mar-2018 Stuff
The threat of arrest has driven out six protesters who locked themselves to Christchurch train tracks to show their disapproval of the new TPP.
French farmers hold tractor protests in Mercosur warning to Macron
22-Feb-2018 Reuters
French farmers drove tractors through town centres and blocked highways to oppose extra agricultural imports from South America, raising pressure on President Emmanuel Macron in the run-up to a politically sensitive Paris farm show.
12 reasons why we say NO to the Mercosur – European Union free trade agreement
21-Feb-2018 Alianza Biodiversidad
We invite you to add your signatures to this document.
Civil society recommendations for the investment chapter of the revised EU-Mexico FTA
16-Feb-2018 S2B
The undersigned organisations take the position that it is advisable to break away from the fundamentally flawed and increasingly controversial ISDS system.