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By adminJuly 18, 2007Uncategorized

URGENT ACTION ON SITUATION ON OAXACA

NEW INCREASE OF POLICE REPRESSION AGAINST POPULAR MOVEMENT IN OAXACA! This Monday, 16th July, about 11:30 am, members of the local police, the preventive police and the bank & industry police confronted, with gas bombs and stones, a demonstration from the Popular Assembly of the Oaxacan Peoples (APPO) and teachers from the XXII section of the National Union of Education Workers who tried to get to the Guelaguetza Auditorium, located at the Fortín Hill in Oaxaca City, as part of the popular festival of the Oaxacans.

By adminJuly 18, 2007Uncategorized

Fast Track is dead. Lets bury the four FTAs.

Dear Friends of Fair Trade: Let’s Celebrate! Fast Track expired on June 30 without a presidential request to Congress for renewal. The mounting opposition and pressure we have built to the failed "free trade" model is having an impact. Thank you for sharing in the campaign to defeat Fast Track. read more

By adminJuly 18, 2007Uncategorized

Bush pushes Congress for FTAs citing national security

President Bush appeals to national security in an intensified push to get Congress to pass four Free Trade Agreements (Peru, Panama, Colombia and Korea). On July 18, 2007, the Congress Daily reports, "In an echo of rhetoric rarely heard since the end of the Cold War, the administration plans to increasingly point to trade as a weapon to block the influence of regimes that seek to promote socialist ideas in Latin America." read more

By adminJuly 18, 2007Uncategorized

Citi Bank lobbies Congress to pass FTA's

Citi Bank sends letter to Congress asking for swift approval of the four Free Trade Agreements with Peru, Colombia, Panama and Korea. Stating that the FTA’s are essential for "creating new market opportunities and eliminating discrimination for Citi and other U.S. financial institutions," the letter outlines a hefty package of benefits afforded to Citi through the FTA’s. read more

By adminJuly 11, 2007Uncategorized

Fundraiser for Haiti Reborn

Please join us this Sunday for a silent auction of local and Haitian art to raise money for our programs in Haiti. When: Sunday, July 15 from 11:30 to 1:30Where: Paint Branch Unitarian Universalist Church3215 Powder Mill RoadAdelphi, Maryland 20783

By adminJune 25, 2007Uncategorized

US Social Forum Workshops on Haiti and Fair Trade

A few workshops you might be interested in if you are heading to the U.S. Social Forum this week.Our partner organization the Alliance for Responsible Trade (based here at the Quixote Center) is offering several workshops together with our partner networks from Mexico, Central and South America and Canada. These are the times and locations. Thursday June 28th 10:30hrs in Ballroom B of the Hotel Westin Atlanta 210 Peachtree St.read more

By adminJune 25, 2007Uncategorized

SOA Survives by 6 Votes

The vote on the McGovern amendment to cut funding for the School of the Americas was very close last Thursday – 203-214. Just six votes the other way would made the difference. Thanks to everybody who made a phone call or otherwise supported this effort. We get closer every year!. You can read up dates about the vote and the work ahead at SOA Watch’s website.

By adminJune 21, 2007Uncategorized

Join Statement from US-Caricom Summit

President Bush met with counterparts in the Caribbean yesterday. This is the joint statement that came out of the conference. Read the Miami Herald‘s coverage. Joint Statement: Conference on the Caribbean read more

By adminJune 21, 2007Uncategorized

UPDATE on SOA Vote

Update from SOA Watch on Foreign Operations Vote and amendment to close the SOA. FOr the latest go to SOA Watch website. SOA Watch has received NEW information, that WHINSEC has a secret weapon and that the Pentagon’s public relations campaign has won some influence with the Representatives who have already told you they will vote YES read more

By adminJune 21, 2007Uncategorized

Edwidge Danticat: Impounded Fathers

June 17, 2007