Skip to main content

Materials for - Globalization & Migrant Rights: Connecting Struggles - Workshop

Image
By
Print Handouts for Globalization & Migrant Rights: Connecting Struggles Workshop:

Presentation given in 2002 by Teofilo Reyes of the Transnationals Information Exchange and contributor to Labor Notes (and a member of the Global Justice Committee of Chicago Jobs with Justice), about linking immigrants with militant labor organizing…
http://www.laborexpress.org/PDFs/ImmigrantsTroublemakers.pdf

Statement issued by many of the leading Latino immigrant organizations in Sept. 2006, blaming trade agreements like NAFTA and CAFTA for forcing workers to migrate and calling for a new economic model…
http://www.laborexpress.org/PDFs/LatinoTradeResolutionRelease.pdf

Declaration issued from the historic 1st Latin American Migrant Community Summit (Cumbre) held in Morelia, Michoacán last May, which blames NeoLiberal economics for creating the conditions that force people to migrate…
http://www.laborexpress.org/PDFs/Morelia_Declaration.pdf

Article by Oscar Chacon & Amy Shannon of NALACC on the role of Free Trade Agreements in creating new migrant flows and the need to build transnational alliances…
http://www.laborexpress.org/PDFs/AlternativesWall.pdf

Economic Policy Institutes analysis of the effects of NAFTA for working people in all three countries, issued in 2006…
http://www.laborexpress.org/PDFs/EPINAFTA2006.pdf

2003 article by David Bacon on NAFTA and it’s devastating impact on Mexican workers…
http://www.laborexpress.org/PDFs/NAFTAATTEN.pdf

AFSC’s statement on the WTO and Mode 4 (possibility of global guest worker program)…
http://www.laborexpress.org/PDFs/AFSCWTO.pdf

Mennonite Central Committee’s primer on immigration and globalization…
http://www.laborexpress.org/PDFs/immigration_globalization-guide.pdf

Top 10 reasons to oppose the WTO from Global Exchange…
http://www.laborexpress.org/PDFs/TopTenWTO.pdf

Audio File:

David Bacon speaking in Chicago in April 2007 on the connections between “free trade agreements” and increased migration (this is a 26 minute long MP3 file)…
http://www.laborexpress.org/AudioFiles/DavidBacon.mp3

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The occupation has ended but the struggle goes on…

By
The occupation of La Casita at Whittier was brought to a close tonight. The Whittier parents are declaring victory in the battle of La Casita as Ron Huberman’s office put in writing today the guarantee not to demolish the field house and to lease it to the parents group at $1 a year. However the war is far from over… The issue of the library is yet to be resolved. CPS still insists that they can find space inside the school building for the library. The parents insist there is no space in the school and that the library should be located in the field house. The parents insist that Huberman and Alderman Solis already agreed that TIF funds would be used to complete the repairs necessary at La Casita. Huberman’s letter today did not make this clear. A half block away from Whittier is the abandon police station on Damen which has sat vacant for several years. The parents say that Solis promised them that the build...
Post a Comment
Read more

R.I.P. UAW…

By
OK, I realize those are harsh words, but I can’t help feeling real sadness today as I read reports of what the UAW agreed to in its settlement with GM. As I am sure you have all heard already, the strike was ended today (after just two days), with the announcement by Gettelfinger that a tentative agreement had been reached. The exact details of the agreement won’t be known till at least late this week, when the members vote to ratify (or not) the contract. You can listen to audio of Gettelfinger’s announcement here… http://www.uaw.org/ Now I am not saying we should relish the idea of a long strike. Strikes are always much harder on the individual worker than they are on their corporate bosses. No one wants a long drawn out strike that leads to workers losing their homes, pulling kids out of college, sinking deeper into debt, etc., etc., etc. Let me say right of the bat, even though I have been a labor activist for 15 years, I have never myself had to endure the pain of a strike. But I ...
7 comments
Read more

Financial Crisis Brings Historic Opportunity…

By
www.whatnowtoons.com Wow, what a difference a few weeks can make. Less than a month ago, every mainstream mass media outlet, U.S. politician, economic analyst, and probably the majority of average citizens would still have been singing the praises of the unfettered free market. Regulation was still a dirty word and privatization was still equated with efficiency and prosperity. Granted, the sand had already begun to shift under this ideological edifice of 30+ years. The sub-prime mortgage crisis and the bursting of the housing bubble had seriously shaken the confidence of some in the system. I had mentioned repeatedly on Labor Express Radio over the Summer the glaring contrast between the soaring gas prices we experienced here in the laissez-faire fuel market of the U.S. as compared to the low and stable prices maintained by the state oil company of our neighbor to the south. But none of that seemed to really change the mainstream belief in this country that free markets solve all prob...
7 comments
Read more