INTERNATIONAL SIGN-ON STATEMENT TO WORLD BANK PRESIDENT

Dear allies, We are seeking organizational signatures for the letter below to the World Bank President. Last May, the government of Bolivia took a bold step towards challenging the excessive and anti-democratic powers of global corporations by withdrawing from the World Bank’s investment arbitration court. That court is now refusing to respect the Bolivian government’s actions and allowing an egregious case brought by a European telecommunications company to proceed. read more

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Amnesty Alert on Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine and Wilson Mesilien

URGENT ACTION APPEAL – From Amnesty International USA To read the current Urgent Action newsletter, go to http://www.amnestyusa.org/urgent/newslett.html ———————————- For a print-friendly version of this Urgent Action (PDF): http://www.amnestyusa.org/actioncenter/actions/uaa33607.pdf18 December 2007UA 336/07 Fear for safety / Possible "disappearance"read more

Watch a Video of Action at Obama's Chicago Office

This past Saturday December 15th, members of the recently formed ‘Chicago Trade with Justice Working Group’ paid a visit to the Obama for America headquarters in Chicago. They wanted to tell Senator Barack Obama that they are concerned with his failure to appear at the recent Senate vote on the US-Peru "Free Trade" Agreement. They left a statement for Obama expressing their disappointment that he skipped the vote on the Peru trade pact.

TEAMSTERS ENDORSE NAFTA ACCOUNTABILITY BILL

Here is the letter of endorsement from the Teamsters President of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Accountability Act, H.R. 4329..

New bill being Proposed requiring evaluation of NAFTA

Representative Marcy Kaptur has drafted a bill, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Accountability Act, H.R. 4329 This legislation would require evaluation of NAFTA impacts and renegotiation or withdrawal from NAFTA if certain conditions are not met. The bill is co-sponsored by Representatives: Boyda (D-KS), Hunter (R-CA), Phil Hare (D-IL), Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), Mike Michaud (D-ME), Tim Ryan (D-OH), Betty Sutton (D-OH), and Raùl Grijalva (D-AZ). read more

UN Human Rights Body Gives Credence to Costa Rica's "No" Coalition

Government Advised to Assess the Impact of CAFTA-DR on the Enjoyment of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Peru FTA Senate Vote Approaching: This is the Thanks We Get?

Call Your Senator during their Thanksgiving recess and tell them the American people want real, not cosmetic changes, to the free trade model. In last November’s elections, the voters sent Congress a strong message that the American people want a change in trade policy. The Wall Street journal reported that six in 10 Republicans in a recent poll agreed with a statement that free trade has been bad for the U.S.

Correa's party wins 60% of seats in Constituient Assembly voting

 QUITO, Ecuador (AP) – November 20 Ecuador’s leftist President Rafael Correa will control more than 60 percent of an assembly writing a new constitution for the politically unstable nation, according to official election results Monday read more

The Coordination Europe-Haïti (CoE-H) on Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper

We are still pressing ahead on a separate resolution the calls for Haiti’s debts to be cancelled immediately (H Res 241).   One of the main reasons we are pressing for this resolution is that all of Haiti’s multi-lateral creditors (World Bank, IMF and Inter-American Development Bank) have already agreed to cancel Haiti’s debts – but they insist on making Haiti wait in order to implement a number of policy conditions.  One of these conditions is the drafting of a “Policy Reduction Strategy Paper” that outlines how the government of