Unions, Rights Leaders Vow to Keep Fighting Colombia Trade Deal
Region: United States
by James Parks The union movement, members of Congress and human rights leaders vowed on Monday to keep the pressure on the Colombian government to get serious about ending the violence against trade unionists and prosec... more
Views: 1439Democrats Show They Love Chavez
Region: District of Columbia“What will it say if this strong friend of America, who has done all the right things to try to bring his country to stability, democracy, and prosperity -- and has done so as an avowed friend of America, fighting te... more
Views: 1559Act Now to Stop Colombia Free Trade Deal
Region: Colombia
by James Parks, Mar 24, 2008 With the U.S. economy in near free fall, 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 ... more
Views: 1135Passport Workers Caught Snooping In Obama Files
Region: New York
Three workers were revealed as having read the passport application file of Democratic Party presidential candidate Barack Obama. Two have been fired and one was disciplined administratively. Nothing was appare... more
Views: 1447Why the United States Will Not Withdraw From NAFTA
Region: United StatesSenator Barack Obama and Senator Hillary Clinton caused a stir with recent promises to rust belt voters that the United States would unilaterally withdraw from NAFTA unless certain environmental and labor concessions are a... more
Views: 2727Fair Trade Certified Flowers Arrive in Time for Valentine's Day and Spring
Region: WisconsinWith Fair Trade spreading like wildfire in the United States, people shopping for flowers for the Valentine's Day holiday and for the forthcoming Spring (a season that, while only a little more than a month away, seems a y... more
Views: 1609Slavery Museum in Liverpool
Region: United Kingdom (Great Britain)2007 is the 200th anniversary of Britain abolishing the slave trade. This transatlantic horror started in 1501 and continued for almost 380 years. By 1780, Liverpool was the European capital of the trade. Ships from the ci... more
Views: 2171ASEAN economic integration in the making?
Region: PhilippinesThe recently concluded 40th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting, which Manila hosted, took stride in attaining the most ambitious plan that would eventually unify the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in so far as economic inte... more
Views: 594Doha goes down, again
Region: United StatesThe “Doha round” of WTO negotiations to increase free commerce in the world was a very difficult task from the beginning, almost impossible in some ways. To find a common denominator between developing countrie... more
Views: 1141Lebanon free trade, blessing or curse?
Region: Lebanon
Undeterred by the protracted political crisis, Lebanon will begin its third round of negotiations for membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva next month, but civil society groups fear that the cost... more
Views: 2043
