Workers' Rights
Puerto Rico Elections: New Partido del Pueblo Trabajador to Challege Neoliberal Parties
Source: Antonio Carmona, The Bullet
After years of strategic dialogue and an arduous process of electoral inscription, Puerto Rico can now count on an organized alternative, a political party that is committed to defending the interests of the working-class and marginalized sectors of the island's population. On November 6, 2012, the new Working People's Party (Partido del Pueblo Trabajador, PPT) will run 71 candidates, from governor to members of the municipal legislative assembly. "Breaking the electoral barrier" and "Puerto Rico should be governed by those who sweat for it" are the slogans that the PPT brings to the 2012 elections.
Agribusiness jeopardizes family farms.
by Gustavo Torres
Traditional food systems are disappearing as large-scale farming expands.
Farming, as a campesino or indigenous family practice that for centuries ensured natural food on Paraguayan land, is threatened by a small number of producers that are developing a farming model based on large-scale modern agricultural technology, which continually decreases the need for manual labor and in which multinational corporations take control of much of Paraguay's natural resources like land, water, and biodiversity.
1. Introduction to the Banana Trade
Bananas are symbolic of the wide range of injustices present in international trade today.
These include:-
Interview with Javier Correa, President of Sinaltrainal
16th of June 2004, Bogotá
Gearóid Ó Loingsigh
Q. What is your evaluation of the campaign one year after the beginning of the boycott?
The world wide campaign against Coca Cola is an on going systematic global process which includes various activities of protest, mobilization, a call for disinvestments in those institutions where Coca Cola is represented and a consumer boycott of its products; any way of expressing your rejection of the company.
Picket Fyffe's AGM
End exploitation of banana workers by Irish company
Preparation for picket - LASC, 5 Merrion Row, 7:30pm Thursday 29 May 2003 (Opposite O'Donoghue's Pub)
Picket - Burlington Hotel, Leeson St, 10.30 am Friday 30 May 2003
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