by Ruth Tess | Mar 10, 2014 | Fair Trade, News, Newsletter
We have 20 years of lived experience since NAFTA. Across the country, our failed trade policy is connected with rising inequality, weaker environmental policies, and growing corporate influence over how we set goals and manage our economy. The US and 11 other...
by Ruth Tess | Aug 12, 2013 | Event, Fair Trade
During the recent WSLC Convention in Vancouver, WA there was a sea of delegates wearing ‘Stop TPP No More NAFTAs’ stickers thanks to Shannon Hagen and IBEW Local 46 for making them and Celso Tolman for very thorough distribution! Celeste Drake, trade expert with the...
by Ruth Tess | Jun 20, 2013 | Article, Fair Trade
‘Free’ Trade was Never Really About Trade by Stan Sorscher We need to think differently about trade. First, let me say that I am 100% in favor of trade. Trade is when we do what we do best, they do what they do best, and we trade. Trade, done right, will raise living...
by Ruth Tess | Jun 14, 2013 | Fair Trade
Rep. McDermott, a long time champion of global public health, has joined Doctors Without Border, WA Physicians for Social Responsibility and many other doctors and global health providers in sounding the alarm on the TPP. Here are some of the highlights from his...
by Ruth Tess | Apr 15, 2013 | Action, Event
On April 23rd & 24th, the WFTC will stand with Kalpona Akter of the Bangladesh Center for Worker Solidarity and Sumi Abedin, garment worker and survivor of the Tazreen Factory fire that took the lives of 112 of her colleagues, to encourage a SweatFree Purchasing...
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