| EU: Anti-Globalization Movement Prepares for Genoa Summit Agence France Presse July 11th, 2001 Nine days ahead of this month's G8 summit in the Italian city of Genoa, an ever-developing anti-globalization movement prepares to make its presence felt. |
| MEXICO: Economic Downturn Deepens by Chris Kraul, Los Angeles Times July 1st, 2001 From farms and automotive plants on the outskirts of Mexico City to the industrial heartland of Monterrey and the wineries and electronics firms in Tijuana and Guadalajara, signs are that this nation's recession is becoming more entrenched. |
| New Study: Mexicans Unable to Live on Sweatshop Wages Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras, Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, et al. June 28th, 2001 Workers in foreign-owned export assembly plants in Mexico are not able to meet a family's basic needs on sweatshop wages, according to a comprehensive study conducted in fifteen Mexican cities. |
| ITALY: Prime Minister Expects 100,000 Protestors at G-8 Summit by Alessandra Stanley, New York Times June 19th, 2001 Worried about a repetition in Italy of the violent protests that occurred at a European Union meeting in Sweden last weekend, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said today that he wanted to open a dialogue with demonstrators who are planning to march at the Group of 8 summit meeting in Genoa next month. |
| EL SALVADOR: Government Report Details Labor Abuses by Steven Greenhouse, The New York Times May 10th, 2001 A long-suppressed report by the Salvadoran government, made public yesterday by an American labor rights group, spelled out serious problems in the country's apparel factories, including unhealthy air and water, large amounts of forced overtime and the frequent dismissal of workers who supported labor unions. |
| US: Making World Trade Fair by Doreen Hemlock, South Florida Sun-Sentinel May 6th, 2001 They're often portrayed as obstructionists to trade and the global economy. But the social movement that mobilized thousands in Quebec last month -- and earlier in Seattle and Prague -- is maturing beyond street protests. |
| SRI Lanka: Overtime Law Hurts Sweatshop Workers by Renuka Senanayake, Inter Press Service March 2nd, 2001 Rights activists are unhappy with the Labour Ministry's plan to amend labour laws to introduce 80 hours of overtime every month for factory workers, including those in export processing zones (EPZ). |
| US: Nike Sued for Greenwash SocialFunds.com March 2nd, 2001 Marc Kasky, a self-described environmentalist, viewed the Ernst and Young audit as an opportunity. Enlisting the support of San Francisco attorney Alan Caplan, he filed a suit against Nike in April of 1998. The suit claims that Nike's assertions about the labor conditions in its Asia factories amounted to false advertising. |
| MEXICO: Rocks, Tear Gas at Cancun Protest by Traci Carl, Associated Press February 28th, 2001 Injured protesters were loaded into ambulances and tourists strolled past bloodstained streets in this beach resort after police charged a group of anti-globalization demonstrators,kicking and beating those they could catch. |
| MEXICO: World Economic Forum, Anti-Globalization Protestors Gather in Cancun Agence France Presse February 26th, 2001 Anti-globalization activists were set Monday to stage a series of protests against the World Economic Forum gathered here for a two-day meeting, but also said they hoped to meet their opponents in debate. |
| Grave Danger Posed Under NAFTA by Unsafe Mexican Trucks Public Citizen February 6th, 2001 Although a trade panel is expected this week to order the United States to permit access to all U.S. roads by Mexican trucks, the U.S. should continue to limit access because of the grave dangers many Mexican trucks pose to motorists on U.S. highways, Public Citizen has concluded in a report released today. |
| SWITZERLAND: UN Chief Warns Business by Orla Ryan, BBC News Online January 28th, 2001 United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has called on business to work harder on environmental and social issues. |
| US: Seattle WTO Protests Mark New Activist Age by Luis Cabrera, Associated Press November 25th, 2000 The protests that all but shut down last year's World Trade Organization meeting may have been a surprise, but they were no fluke, organizers and observers say. |
| USA: Outlook Bleak for Environment Cleanup by Danielle Knight, Inter Press Service November 23rd, 2000 If deterioration of the global environment over the past several decades is any guide, the coming century does not hold out much promise for reversing these trends, many environmentalists are warning as the millennium comes to a close. |
| BRUNEI: Clinton Urges Economic Globalization by Dirk Beveridge, Associated Press November 15th, 2000 President Clinton sought to nudge economic globalization forward Wednesday by calling for new world trade negotiations by 2001 -- a deadline developing nations are resisting. |
| FRANCE: José Bové a 'French Gandhi'? by Charles Bremner, Times of London July 1st, 2000 The anti-capitalist campaigner José Bové compared himself to Gandhi when he went on trial yesterday for demolishing a McDonald's restaurant in a southern French market town. |
| AFRICA: Illegal Diamond Trade Funds War in Sierra Leone UMCOR April 19th, 2000 Peace cannot be sustained in Sierra Leone until controls are imposed on the illegal selling of diamonds used to finance its civil war, according to a recent study. |
| SRI LANKA: Massive Protest Against US Mining Project Inter Press Service March 30th, 2000 Scientists, trade unionists and priests joined farmers from a northeast Sri Lanka village on Thursday in a massive protest in the capital against government plans to hand over phosphate mines to a US-based transnational company (TNC). |
| Bordering Injustice by Traci Griggs and Martha Valds, La Jornada December 9th, 1998 Non-profit environmental justice groups such as the San Diego-based Environmental Health Coalition (EHC), are trying to remove the rose colored glasses and expose the harsh reality of the U.S/Mexico border in an attempt to protect public and environmental health. EHC's battle against an abandoned maquiladora turned toxic dump, serves as a microcosm of what's wrong with border health and how NAFTA, for the most part, has exacerbated the problem. |
| The Mexican Version of Pulpwood Plantations by Alejandro Villamar, World Rainforest Movement Bulletin August 1st, 1998 In response to pressure from the maquiladora industry, the Mexican government is now paving the way for the large-scale pulpwood plantations in order to provide industry with raw material to produce cheap pulp and paper. |