The Chicago Trade With Justice Working Group (CTWJWG), formed just last December, has struck again. Following up on their visit to Obama campaign HQ in Downtown Chicago On December 15th (and a very popular video of the visit produced by Larry Duncan of Labor Beat), CTWJWG visited Obama & Durbin’s senate offices in the Federal Building in downtown Chicago to demand that they oppose the Colombia /U.S. Free Trade Agreement. Both Obama and Durbin supported the Peru/U.S. Free Trade Agreement, which passed in the congress in early December, betraying their promises to end trade policy that devastates the lives of workers in this country and aboard. This time around members of CTWJWG filmed some of the dozens of individuals who signed on to our letter to Obama and Durbin, on behalf of 30 different organizations. View the video here… http://youtube.com/watch?v=HgTzdJ2Rkqs Here is a video taken the day the letter was delivered (Monday, Jan. 28th)… http://youtube.com/watch?v=NsF5AZWMHmo View...

Yesterday (12-15-07) the newly formed Chicago Trade With Justice Working Group, held their first public action - a visit to the Chicago campaign HQ for Sen. Barack Obama. On the campaign trail, Obama has criticized those who supported NAFTA and CAFTA and promised to take a different direction in regards to trade policy if elected President. Yet he expressed publicly that he supported the recently passes U.S./Peru Free Trade Agreement and did not show up to vote against it when it was voted on by the Senate on Dec. 4th. The Working Group delivered a letter to Obama stating our disappointment with his decision not to take a stand against this dangerous extension of NAFTA to yet another country, and calling on him to oppose an upcoming trade deal with Colombia. Video of our visit to Obama campaign HQ can be viewed at the following links, thanks to the work of Larry Duncan from Labor Beat T.V… http://blip.tv/file/544160/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBw3IVwd58w You can view a copy of the...