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06/23/2008
One month after the largest, single-site workplace immigration raid in U.S. history, hundreds of residents of Postville, Iowa are unable to work or feed their families as they await deportation orders that could take months.
Read moreFrom: New America Media Related: [United States] [Guatemala] [Labor] [Migration] [Civil Rights] [Social Exclusion] [Governance] [Justice and Crime] [Law] |
06/21/2008
Un mes después de la mayor redada de inmigración en un solo lugar de trabajo en la historia de los EE.UU., las familias de Postville todavía viven con el miedo de que regresen los agentes de inmigración.
Read moreFrom: New America Media Related: [Guatemala] [United States] [Labor] [Migration] [Civil Rights] [Social Exclusion] [Governance] [Justice and Crime] [Law] |
06/13/2008
As food prices and hunger continue to rise worldwide, small farmers in Brazil, Guatemala, and Mexico are suggesting solutions quite different than the free trade policies endorsed at a recent UN food summit in Rome.
Read moreFrom: OneWorld US Related: [Guatemala] [Brazil] [Agriculture] [Food] [Capacity Building] [Consumption] [Conservation] |
05/08/2008
The global food crisis is unraveling economic advances made in recent years by large sections of the poor working classes of Latin America, reports a U.S.-based ethnic media organization.
Read moreFrom: New America Media Related: [Brazil] |
05/08/2008
Innovative local initiatives are strengthening rural regions throughout Mexico, which have been losing both people and their competitive edge in agriculture since Mexico opened its markets to free trade.
Read moreFrom: Global Exchange |
05/07/2008
Jesus León Santos, the leader of a democratic farmer-to-farmer network, recently received a prestigious environmental award for promoting sustainability through traditional agriculture in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Read moreFrom: Grassroots International |
04/29/2008
In the wake of World Malaria Day, an anti-pesticide advocacy organization discusses the danger of spraying DDT to kill mosquitoes carrying the disease and promotes malaria prevention alternatives.
Read moreFrom: Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA) Image: Malaria sign, Kenya. © Peter Armstrong
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04/24/2008
This week's closed-door meeting of leaders from Canada, Mexico, and the United States is likely to produce changes that "will favor narrow corporate interests over the public good," write trade analysts Sarah Anderson and Manuel Pérez Rocha.
Read moreFrom: Institute of Policy Studies Related: [Canada] [United States] |
04/11/2008
The recent economic downturn in the United States is causing a dramatic decrease in remittances -- the amount of money migrant workers send home to support their families.
Read moreFrom: New America Media Related: [United States] [India] Image: With nearly 40 million immigrants, U.S. global remittances exceed $300 billion per year. © American Friends Service Committee
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04/11/2008
The world's leading mobile telephone producer Nokia admitted that "the union leaders" at Nokia's plant in Reynosa in Mexico are appointed by the company itself. Thus the principle of free organising of labour, approved by Nokia in its code of conduct, does not materialise in practise at its very own plant.
Read moreFrom: Trade Union News from Finland Related: [Labor] [Corporations] Image: © Radio Netherlands Wereldomroep
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04/09/2008
Meksikolaisen työelämän tutkimuslaitoksen CILASin tutkimusraportti moittii Nokiaa omien eettisten sääntöjensä rikkomisesta Reynosan-tehtaalla.
Read moreFrom: Suomen Ammattiliittojen Solidaarisuuskeskus Related: [Corporations] Image: © Radio Netherlands Wereldomroep
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03/27/2008
North American environmental leaders recently issued a report calling for a greater commitment to green buildings in the region, where commercial and residential structures currently consume an average of 30 percent of total energy needs.
Read moreFrom: Worldwatch Institute Related: [Canada] [United States] Image: Environmentally friendly construction reduces carbon emissions, on average, by 35 percent, say experts. © Center for Rural Strategies
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03/25/2008
Despite the government's military measures, Mexican drug violence is gaining force -- much thanks to the cartels' 'imported' North American firepower, which now rivals even that of the regular Mexican army, writes Bill Weinberg.
Read moreFrom: North American Congress on Latin America Related: [United States] |
03/18/2008
Ihmisoikeusjärjestön mukaan yli 4 000 ihmistä on kuollut viimeisen 12 vuoden aikana pyrkiessään Meksikon ja Yhdysvaltain välisen rajan yli.
Read moreFrom: OneWorld España Related: [Central America] [United States] [Migration] [Human Rights] |
02/12/2008
Meksikon jalkineteollisuus elää pelonsekaisissa tunnelmissa, kun sitä kiinalaiselta tuotannolta suojannut tullisopimus raukesi vuoden vaihtuessa.
Read moreFrom: Trade Union News from Finland Related: [Labor] [Trade] Image: © Peter Armstrong
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01/30/2008
Vuoden 2007 alusta lähtien Meksikon hallitus on kiihdyttänyt toimiaan Chiapasin maakunnan itsehallintoa tavoittelevia zapatistiyhteisöjä kohtaan. Hyökkäykset, uhkaukset ja maiden ryöstö kuuluvat hallituksen tukemien puolisotilaallisten joukkojen keinovalikoimaan.
Read moreFrom: OneWorld US Related: [Indigenous Rights] [Conflict] Image: © Independent Media Center
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01/28/2008
Since early 2007, dozens of the autonomous, indigenous Zapatista communities in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas have endured near-daily attacks, land invasions, and death threats, primarily from government-endorsed paramilitary groups.
Read moreFrom: In These Times Image: Zapatista activists, 2006. © Independent Media Center
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01/23/2008
Chiapasin kansannousun myötä intiaaninaiset ovat löytäneet äänensä ja paikkansa liikkeessä ja intiaaniyhteisössä.
Read moreFrom: OneWorld España Related: [Gender] [Indigenous Rights] Image: Comandante Ramona
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01/21/2008
Sosiaalifoorumin agendalla ovat vahvasti Väli- ja Etelä-Amerikan maiden solmimat vapaakauppasopimukset. Foorumiin liittyen järjestetään 26. tammikuuta maailmanlaajuinen toimintapäivä.
Read moreFrom: UnMundo América Latina Related: [Civil Society] [Globalization] |
01/16/2008
This March, Mexico will introduce immigration cards digitally embedded with migrants' information, a 'characteristically progressive' move that will allow hundreds of thousands of temporary workers and visitors to come and go at their will, writes Louis E. V. Nevaer.
Read moreFrom: New America Media |



