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Two
Myths that Keep the World Poor By Vandana Shiva
Anyone
serious about ending global poverty needs to undertand the
true causes.
Water
Summit Begins with Dire Warnings of Shortage
An international summit on the world's water crisis has
opened with presidents and princes calling for solutions to
shortages and inequalities in the most basic of commodities.
Associated Press
World
Council of Churches journey
to culminate in 2006 in Porto Alegre, Brazil. AGAPE:
"Alternative Globalization Addressing People and Earth"
First-hand
Report from Scotland Make Poverty History March and Alternative
G8 Summit
G8
Debt Relief Could Lead to New Borrowing
World
Bank scheme would defeat the purpose of the debt write-off.
Bishops
Express Concern about the Andean Region on Free Trade
Agreement (AFTA) between the United States and the Andean
countries (PDF)
Pat
Buchanan on Free Trade
Conservative
columnist and former presidential candidate lists the damage
caused by a third of a century of free trade.
Press
Release: U.S. Agricultural Subsidies Harmful to Rural
Communities in the U.S. and Developing World (PDF)
The Price
of Free Trade
Implications
of the end of textile export quotas on Bangladesh
and Cambodia
State
Laws Take Back Seat to Trade
Global pacts are foiling California's attempts to protect
public health and the Environment
By
Evelyn Iritani, Los Angeles Times [Registration returned for
1st time visitors]
Joining
Hands Against Hunger Network of Peru's
FAIR TRADE PROJECT was awarded Fourth Place in a national
contest designed to identify "best practices" in
innovative experiences which assist extremely poor persons
to achieve economic sustainability. Visit
the Peru network's site to learn more and shop online.
Poor Nations
Blast Trade Protectionism, Obsession With Security
UN Wire - May 26, 2004: Led
by China and Brazil, leaders from developing nations meeting
to address poverty reduction today blasted developed countries'
focus on security issues and protectionist trade measures
at the expense of meaningful assistance to the world's poor.
Bilateral
Free Trade Agreements
Debunking Five Myths About the Korea-U.S.
Free Trade Agreement (KORUS FTA)
By Christine Ahn
Trade representatives from the United States and South
Korea are racing against the clock to sign the Korea-U.S.
Free Trade Agreement under the “fast track” deadline.
With $72 billion dollars traded annually between the two countries,
the KorUS FTA would become the second largest trade deal after
the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). While such
a trade deal would normally sail through the halls of the
U.S. Congress and the Korean National Assembly, times have
changed since the first free-trade regimes rolled into Washington,
D.C., and Seoul.[Download
the Fact Sheet from the Oakland Institute]
Peru Trade Agreement Pulled
from Lame Duck Agenda
Trade justice
promoters will look to new Congress in 2007 to affect change
in trade policy that benefits farmers and ranchers in the
U.S. and abroad.
Free
Trade and Agriculture
Fallen
Produce: Washington's
asparagus-canning business will die this June, when crews
pack up the plant's machinery to be installed in a new processing
plant in Peru.
Competition
or Massacre? Central American Farmers’ Dismal Prospects
under CAFTA
U.N. Official Blames
IMF, World Bank For Poor Farmers' Crisis
WTO
Commitments
Require Rethinking of U.S. Agricultural Policy Corn
Growers Call for Change in Course to Secure Farmer Livelihoods
Worldwide
America's
lavish handouts to its farmers harvest poverty throughout
the developing world. And they are illegal as well. That's
the conclusion of a World Trade Organization panel that
heard Brazil's challenge to the cotton subsidies that belie
this nation's commitment to free and fair trade.
April
28, 2004 - New York Times Editorial
(One-time
free registration required)
See
related article on the Hunger Program's Food & Faith
site by Michael Pollan on the destruction caused by the
flood of U.S. corn into Mexico, Go...
GMO
trade talks start with lines clearly drawn
CAFTA
Missed
Deadline for Start of CAFTA
News reports indicate that several of the CAFTA countries’
parliaments – confronted by the reality of having to
make far-reaching changes to public health and other domestic
laws required – are reluctant to implement the deal.
[Read
the entire press release]
CAFTA’s
Debt Trap
Buried in the technical language of the CAFTA agreement
are rules that would make it more difficult for the six nations
that have signed the trade deal with the United States to
escape heavy debt burdens or to prevent or recover from debt
crises. [Read
article online or download
printer-friendly pdf version]
Partner Churches in Central America Appeal
to U.S. Christians to Oppose CAFTA
Read
the Pastoral Letter 
FTAA
Free
Trade Proposal Splits Bolivian City
Winners and Losers in El Salvador: A Window
on Our Future ~ A
Report of the Free Trade Areas of the Americas (FTAA) Reality
Tour of El Salvador
Well-written
report based on a October 2003 El Salvador delegation tour
by PICA that explores the social and economic effects of
free trade on El Salvador and its people. Destructive trends
witnessed in El Salvador are compared with economic developments
in the U.S. (PDF; 315KB) Read
the report
NAFTA
International
Federation for Human Rights:
Fact-finding mission reports on impact of NAFTA
[Read
the summary and download the report]
NAFTA
Superhighway to Slice through North America
First you've heard about this? Don't be surprised.
There has been virtually no news, much less public debate
on this superhighway for mostly Chinese goods. Critics see
it as a way to bypass union longshoremen and teamster truckers.
[Read "Bush
Administration Quietly Plans NAFTA Super Highway," by
Jerome Corsi - 6/12/06]
The
high price of 'free' trade: NAFTA's failure has
cost the United States jobs across the nation.
Analysis of the North American Free Trade
Agreement (NAFTA) on its 10th Birthday
From
the New York Times comes a key analysis of how dramatic
changes in the global economy affect NAFTA and all trade
policy.
"Second Thoughts on Free Trade" (1/6/04)
Read
the article
"Second Thoughts..."
provides background to two other New York Times articles
specific to NAFTA.
"Free Trade Accord at 10: Growing Pains Are Clear"
(12/27/03;
You now would have purchase the article, but you can contact
us if you'd like the article by email.) Read
the summary
"The
Broken Promise of Nafta" (1/6/04)
Read
the article
Trading
Away the Future: Concerns
Arising From the Investor-State Mechanism of the North American
Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and its Extension throughout
the Americas (January 2002; PDF; 210k))
Vendiendo
El Futuro (en Español) (PDF; 210k)
WTO
World
Trade Organization (WTO) Still Relevant to Poor Countries
Read
this analysis on the WTO "Development Round" from
The New Vision, Uganda's
leading Web site
WTO
Panels Confirm Victory for Brazil in Cotton, Sugar Cases
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