In January 2008, I took a group of Equal Exchange staff to Chiapas, Mexico to learn about some of the current realities that indigenous rural communities there are facing and to visit with one of our small farmer coffee co-operative partners, CIRSA. Mike Mowry, Quality Control Technician, was one of the participants on that trip. The following [...]
Posts Tagged ‘NAFTA’
What’s NAFTA got to do with it?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged CIRSA, NAFTA on August 6, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Buy Fair, Vote Fair: Act Now to Ensure that Congress Makes All Trade FAIR
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged CAFTA, NAFTA, TRADE Act on June 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The TRADE Act, one of the few positive trade bills to come before Congress in a long time, could be voted on ANY DAY now. Our friends at the American Friends Service Committee have sent out this alert. Please take a moment to call your representatives and ask them to cosponsor the bill. It’s truly [...]
Broad Array of Groups Urge President-elect Obama to Make NAFTA Re-negotiation a Top Priority
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged NAFTA, TRADE Act, trade agreements on January 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Equal Exchange joins a large number of organizations who are asking President-elect Obama to re-negotiate our trade agreements to ensure that all trade is fair trade, putting people and the planet over profits. Press Release For Immediate Release January 5, 2009 *********************************** Nearly 60 organizations and networks sent a letter to President-elect Obama urging him [...]
How free trade destroys local economies, hurts small farmers and causes massive waves of migration
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Fair Trade, free trade, immigration, Mexico, NAFTA on February 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“There used to be one bus a day leaving this area (Esquintla, Chiapas) heading north. Now, four buses a day go to the border…. And each is packed with our young boys. Today, with the conditions the way they are, youth have become our biggest export.” -Miguel Angel Barrios Bravo, president of a coffee co-operative [...]
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