The Human Face (and Price) of Trade
The Witness blog series is back! This month, Witness for Peace, in close collaboration with coalition partners in the United States and...
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Aug 27, 20123 min read
Labor Activists Mendoza and Galvis Under Attack
by Jessye Weinstein WFP Colombia Team Two trade union leaders in Barrancabermeja’s Coca Cola plant —William Mendoza, President of the...
Aug 21, 20123 min read
GM Workers Enter 4th Week on Hunger Strike with Growing International Support
By Austin Robles WFP Colombia Dozens of people protested in front of GM’s headquarters in Detroit last week, outraged at the company’s...
Aug 13, 201211 min read
Labor Action Plan Monitoring Report
This is a Labor Action Plan Monitoring report done by Witness for Peace delegates and International Team this past July. It includes the...
Aug 3, 20123 min read
Fired GM Workers Commemorate Protest’s Anniversary with Hunger Strike
By Austin Robles WFP Colombia Minutes before he started to sew his mouth shut, Jorge Parra explained his rationale to me: “Essentially GM...
May 21, 20123 min read
Car Bomb Explodes in Bogotá as Trade Accord Begins
By Austin Robles, WFP Colombia When I left the United States to do human rights work in Colombia, I knew the risks of entering the...
Apr 11, 20123 min read
General Motors in Colombia: the Free Trade Agreement, the Abuses, the Corruption and the Resistance
Jorge Parra, the President of the Association of Sick and Fired Workers Of General Motors Colombia (ASOTRECOL in Spanish), started his...
Apr 2, 20121 min read
The Summit of the People
by the Witness for Peace Colombia team In the video below, Witness for Peace gives a preview of the Summit of the People, a...
Oct 13, 20112 min read
Foreign Direct Invasion: What “Free Trade” means for small producers
By Riahl O’Malley Witness for Peace International Team – Nicaragua Yesterday Congress passed three new Free Trade Agreements with Panama,...
Apr 2, 20083 min read
POLICY ANALYSIS: Bush Promotes Free Trade in Mexico Meetings
April 2nd, 2008 By Robert Saper During George W. Bush’s five-country visit to Latin America last week—passing through Brazil, Uruguay,...
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