Hunger Striking for Labor Rights in Colombia
GM gave its disabled Colombian workers a choice: to die of starvation or to die waiting for a solution.
Your Labor Rights or Your Life
A hostile labor environment in a country like Colombia, connected through a trade agreement to the U.S., has repercussions for workers at home as well.
Playing the Spoiler in Colombia
The United States must stop supporting the perverse Colombian status quo that lies at the heart of the country’s prolonged civil war.
Free Trade Agreement Ignores Colombian History of Violence Against Trade Unions
Colombia is widely regarded as the world’s most dangerous place to be a trade union member.
Afro-Colombian Women, Activism and Leadership
Danelly Estupiñan, an Afro-descendant woman activist and community organizer from Colombia, will be sharing her experiences as community organizer and psycho-social support for women victims of violence in rural and urban areas of Buenaventura, the second most important port in Colombia and one of the most dangerous places for human rights defenders, particularly women.
Raw Trade Deals
With cheap imports woven tightly into U.S. manufacturing and retail, corporations have a lot at stake.
Travel Writer Michael Jacobs Does Justice to the Andes
An interview with travel writer Michael Jacobs about his most recent book, “Andes.”
Food System Pays Dearly as Wall Street Occupies Washington
It’s nearly impossible to find a legislative or regulatory issue related to food and agriculture that hasn’t been deeply shaped (if not outright written) by corporate lobbyists.
FILM: Leaving La Floresta
IPS’ Drug Policy Project joins Give Us Names for the DC public premier of thier compelling new film, Leaving La Floresta and you’re invited. Leaving La Floresta is a documentary that chronicles the forced displacement of one Colombian family.
Big Agriculture’s Latin American Exploits
Without any tariffs padding the price of our exports, cheap U.S. grain would flood Colombia.
Drug War Madness
Forty years after the war on drugs began the fallout from bad policy has had dire consequences both home and abroad.
Third Prize: You’re Fired
President Obama is trying to sell free trade agreements as win-win deals. The problem is that most people will only win dubious prizes.
The Audacity of Free Trade Agreements
President Obama is reversing his earlier commitment to a new kind of trade relationship with the world by pushing three ill-conceived FTAs.
A Peaceful End to the War on Drugs?
The international war on drugs isn’t stopping drug use or trafficking — but it is ruining lives. Drug policy expert Sanho Tree on what we can do differently.
A Volatile Agenda on Agriculture
The U.S.-Colombia free trade pact would reinforce a system that leaves farmers and consumers at the mercy of volatile prices and markets.